A CDC report published in last week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report showed that heroin deaths in 28 states doubled from 2010 to 2012. The agency analyzed death certificate data from 28 states to come up with that finding, but it also reported that, despite this spike in the heroin-related death rate, more than twice…

SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. (WTNH)– Police say a DATTCO bus driver was selling heroin out of his Manchester house and even though he’s been pulled off the road by the bus company, parents are very concerned. Police say they found a South Windsor school bus driver at the center of a major heroin ring operating out…

Drug dealers are peddling a new marijuana product called Wax that looks and feels like lip balm and packs a kick equivalent to smoking 15-20 joints of weed. Police in Roswell, Ga., discovered 80 grams of Wax during a recent drug bust. Roswell Police Officer Zachary Frommer told Fox 5 in Atlanta last week that…

WORCESTER — At least nine people have died here from suspected drug overdoses during the past six days, prompting authorities Wednesday to issue urgent health warnings as the state’s second-largest city became the latest front in the battle against heroin. “There’s something going on with the heroin,” Police Chief Gary Gemme said. “It’s either mixed…

With a booming startup culture cranked up by competitive VPs and adrenaline-driven coders and a tendency for stressed-out managers to look the other way, illicit drugs and black-market painkillers have become part of the landscape in Silicon Valley. For Google executive Forrest Timothy Hayes, heroin was the killer app. From the way the Santa Cruz,…

ORLANDO, Fla. (WOFL ORLANDO) – It has been a year since Lake Highland Preparatory School in Orlando made national news with its drug policy. Leaders of the private school decided to test all students in 7th through 12th grades. If the students failed two drug tests, they were told they would be kicked out of…

Over the years, teenager have engaged in numerous deadly trends to get a drug-induced high. Teens have tried to get high off of common household items including computer cleaning products, bath salts, and anything else that is readily available to them. Teens have even tried suffocating themselves, or making each other pass out to get…