Drug News

By Matthew Pleasantdailycomet.com “A 30-year-old who abused pain medicine while pregnant and passed the addiction to her unborn child pleaded guilty to a cruelty charge Monday.” http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20090825/ARTICLES/908259891?Title=Mom-on-drugs-while-pregnant-guilty-of-cruelty

“Peru could displace Colombia in 2011 as the world’s biggest producer of coca, the raw material of cocaine, according to experts quoted Monday by La Republica newspaper.” http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=341600&CategoryId=14095

August 20, 2009 03:10 PM ET Emily Brandon “These findings show that many in the Woodstock generation continue to use illicit drugs as they age,” says SAMHSA acting administrator Eric Broderick. SAMHSA found that the increase in drug use was driven primarily by the aging of the baby boomers, who have had higher rates of…

August 24, 7:54 AMPortland Drug Policy ExaminerJohn English “Whether it’s pot, heroin or meth, young entrepreneurs, drug dealers, have used student loan money to purchase drugs to so they can finance their expenses and maintain a high lifestyle while in college.” http://www.examiner.com/x-11932-Portland-Drug-Policy-Examiner~y2009m8d24-Drug-offenders-to-get-student-loans–again

CNN “LOS ANGELES, California (Aug. 17) – A weeklong blaze that has charred more than 84,000 acres in southern California was started by a cooking fire in a drug trafficking operation, investigators said. The La Brea fire originated at an illegal marijuana camp believed to be run by a Mexican drug organization, the Santa Barbara…

August 18, 2009By BRIAN STANLEY “Health officials, narcotics agents and the coroner agree: We are in the midst of a heroin epidemic. “We have 20 confirmed deaths so far this year,” Will County Coroner Patrick O’Neil said. Last year there were 16 fatal heroin overdoses in all and 15 the year before that.” www.heraldnewsonline.com

U.S. Says Drug Trade Is Booming as Morales’s Plan to Encourage Legal Products From Leaves Backfires By ANTONIO REGALADO “Now Bolivia’s coca production is up, according to the United Nations — but so is its cocaine trade. Cocaine production is potentially up as much as 65%, U.S. law-enforcement officials say, as Colombian and Mexican traffickers…

Story from BBC NEWS: “Methamphetamine, aka crystal meth or a host of other names, gives dizzying highs but is acutely addictive and wrecks the body. So why do people do it, asks Louis Theroux.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8190120.stm

KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 7, 2009Vast Supply of Opium is Problem for Entire Families “She started giving it to her children to keep them from shivering in the winter. They’ve all had treatment before, but poverty lead them back to drugs. Najiba says opium, which she boils as a tea to suppress hunger pains, is cheaper…