A U.S. Navy Fire Scout made its first drug bust April 3 off the deck of the USS McInerney. The MQ-8B Vertical Take-off and Landing UAV (VTUAV) launched for a regular test flight when the ship acquired a suspected narcotics “go-fast” boat on its radar. The Mission Payload Operator completed testing and received permission to…

PITTSBURGH — A California man who spent nearly six years in prison for a 1980s marijuana-trafficking conviction got six months in federal prison for running a company that sold a male prosthetic called the Whizzinator that helped men cheat on drug tests. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ir6oSjYgEVfVLck6cgpvanl3Lp8wD9EV0S8G1

President Obama does not have to look as far as Afghanistan to find a drugs war, a failing state and violence that threatens the US’s stability. He can look south to Mexico, to a conflict that is bound to displace far-flung troublespots in US preoccupations. Killings have spread to the “tourist paradise” of the beaches,…

Along the border, fears are growing that the escalating drug violence in Mexico will spill into the United States. “You farmers, I’m telling you right now, arm yourselves,” he said. “As they say the old story is, it’s better to be tried by 12 than carried by six. Damn it, I don’t want to see…

Just a day after police arrested a group of workers at Goodyear’s tire plant in Fayetteville, N.C., a separate action yielded five drug arrests at Goodyear’s Danville, Va., truck tire plant. http://www.tirereview.com/Article/72419/second_goodyear_plant_gets_drug_raid_arrests.aspx

FAYETTEVILLE, NC (WAVE) – 15 people are facing charges following a drug raid in North Carolina. Deputies raided a Goodyear plant in Fayetteville on March 30. Investigators say drug use at the plant was so pervasive that employees complained to corporate headquarters in Ohio asking that something be done. http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=12236123

Researchers say there’s an alarming trend growing across the U.S.”Every day in the emergency department here, we see a patient who has taken too many Percocet or Oxycodone or one of their painkillers or one of their sedatives, like Ativan or Valium, or combined those medications and comes in unresponsive,” Dr. Fred Harchelroad, an ER…

Hospitals have been treating far more patients who wind up in the emergency room for overdosing on prescription painkillers than they did a decade ago, according to the first national survey of hospitals in the nation. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/nj_hospitals_treating_more_pat.html

PHOENIX — The sanitation truck driver who ran down eight motorcycles on March 25, killing four people, had illegal drugs in his system at the time of the crash, Phoenix police said Tuesday. Michael Jakscht, 46, was impaired at the scene. Toxicology results confirmed initial testing showed that illegal drugs were present in Jakscht’s system…

Two teen girls from the Paul Band First Nation have died after taking an unknown amount of ecstasy at a wedding party. Leah Dominique House, 14, was taken off life support Wednesday at the Stollery Children’s Hospital. Trinity Bird, 15, died the previous night. “We’re not doing OK, but life has to go on,” said…