Drug News

A truce requested by a notoriously violent Mexican drug cartel will do little to stop drug cartel violence along Arizona’s border and could even make it worse, according to a Drug Enforcement Agency agent in Phoenix. http://www.kpho.com/news/26359117/detail.html

Drug infractions are five times more prevalent at NYU than Columbia, according to the New York Post. In 2009, NYU recorded 610 violations of the schools drug policy, compared with only 121 at Columbia. The numbers at both schools went down significantly in 2010 despite the presence of a drug ring at the Ivy League…

Maine, notorious in some circles for having given rise to a national epidemic of painkiller abuse and addiction, now officially tops the nation in the percentage of residents seeking treatment for addiction to prescription narcotics. http://www.bangordailynews.com/story/Statewide/Maine-tops-nation-in-prescription-drug-abuse,163035

Admissions for alcohol abuse treatment have remained the same in parts of the Midwest and South while dropping elsewhere in the United States, while treatment rates for illegal drugs are increasing across the country, especially for marijuana abuse, according to a new report. http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/648037.html

On Sunday morning, Ithaca, N.Y. police arrested a 26-year-old woman, who is listed as being a Cornell University student, and charged her with possessing nearly six ounces of heroin that is worth more than $150,000. It was one of the largest seizures in the police department’s history, according to The Ithaca Journal. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/campus-overload/2010/12/another_ivy_drug_bust_cornell.html

SEVENTEEN sailors have been identified as members of a suspected drug trafficking ring at Sydney’s Garden Island naval base. In what now looms as the Australian Defence Force’s largest drugs scandal in at least two decades, The Australian can reveal that the sailors under investigation belong to the navy’s Fleet Support Unit, which is responsible…

Marijuana use among U.S. teens is increasing, despite decades of prevention efforts. The troubling results of the 2010 Monitoring The Future survey, a product of the National Institutes on Drug Abuse, show that 16 percent of the nation’s eighth-graders use marijuana on a daily basis. That’s up from 14.5 percent in 2009. http://www.suntelegraph.com/cms/news/story-206498.html

“To go to a doctor who is impaired can really have deadly consequences. It’s no different than an airline pilot who is using drugs or alcohol in that you’re often dealing with life and death circumstances,” said Steve Levin, a medical malpractice attorney with the Levin & Perconti law firm in Chicago.Remarkably, Ready said that…

A former Niagara Falls city worker is headed to prison for selling drugs out of his city truck. http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/crime/Falls-employee-sentenced-for-drug-deals

An online news and entertainment website, The Daily Beast, has ranked the top “druggiest” colleges and the top four are in New England. The University of New Hampshire tops the list followed by Boston’s Northeastern University. Ranked third is Bryant University in Rhode Island with the University of Maine rounding out the list. http://www.necn.com/12/14/10/New-England-colleges-ranked-for-drug-use/landing_newengland.html?blockID=372743&feedID=4206