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Adults rate drug abuse and childhood obesity as the top health concerns for kids in their communities, according to the fifth annual survey of the top 10 health concerns for kids conducted by the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health. Most of the top 10 health concerns pertain to…

DECLARES 15th YEAR OF CONSECUTIVE QUARTERLY DIVIDENDS ACTON, Mass., Aug. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Psychemedics Corporation (NASDAQ: PMD) today announced second quarter financial results for the period ended June 30, 2011. The Company also announced a quarterly dividend of $0.12 per share payable to shareholders of record as of August 22, 2011 to be paid…

A majority of U.S. counties have reported crystal meth as their most serious drug problem, citing it more often than cocaine and marijuana combined. In Hollywood, cocaine is still king, but meth is gaining. “It is in the circuit and it’s slowly rising,” Dr. Eric Braverman, addiction specialist and author of “Younger (Sexier) You” told…

Across Maine, police and hospitals are reporting a surge of people becoming delusional and violent after injecting, snorting or smoking so-called bath salts, a synthetic drug that officials say is marketed under names including Monkey Dust, Monkey Mess, K2 and Vanilla Sky. The Northern New England Poison Center received 110 calls — 87 from Maine,…

A Northridge medical marijuana dispensary that was the site of an attempted murder last year was raided this week by cops, who allege it was used as a front for an L.A.-to-Cleveland cocaine operation. In fact, they say, they came upon a huge cocaine transaction right as they were about to serve their search warrant.…

Seventy employees of a West Virginia business went through random drug testing. Twelve of them, or 17.1 percent, failed. That’s just one example of the growing concern about prescription drug abuse among those in manufacturing, mining, construction and other industries in the Mountain State and across the country. A recent study by the National Institutes…

Employers should update their drug testing policies now to take full advantage of a beneficial state law taking effect Nov. 1. “If you don’t change your policy by Nov. 1, you are contractually obligating yourself to the old law after Nov. 1,” said McAfee & Taft attorney Charles S. Plumb. “This is a good time…

A study has found that people in their 20s who regularly smoke cannabis are up to three times more likely to use other illicit drugs. The findings were based on a long-term study of nearly 2000 Victorian high school students who were first surveyed on their drug habits when they were teens and throughout their…

This story appears in the July 11 print edition of Transport Topics. Hair tests, which could keep more drug-abusing drivers off the road, are starting to gain favor among larger carriers though the number using them still are few and far between, experts said. C.R. England, Gordon Trucking and Roehl Transport, three Transport Topics Top…

A new Indiana rule requiring drug tests for unemployed people participating in state-funded job training programs reflects a hard stance many states are taking regarding public assistance as they struggle with limited financial resources. The U.S. Department of Labor says Indiana is the first state to require drug testing of people seeking job training. But…