Drug News

DALY CITY, CA (KFSN) — Daly City police say they are now treating the death from a weekend rave at the Cow Palace as an overdose and not caused by tainted drugs. http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/state&id=7473973

ANGELS CAMP – Drug use, assaults and other lawlessness connected to the Furthur Festival held at the Calaveras County Fairgrounds over Memorial Day weekend triggered 63 arrests, injured five law enforcement officers and forced the Sheriff’s Department to put all available officers on duty. http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100603/A_NEWS/6030327/-1/A_NEWS06

The Royal Navy is preparing to conduct anti-submarine warfare against drug cartels smuggling cocaine under the sea. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7779176/Royal-Navy-launches-anti-sub-war-against-drug-cartels.html

“Cocaine abusers — already at risk for an abnormal heartbeat, blood pressure problems, hallucinations, convulsions and stroke — can add another potential health complication to the list: rotting flesh.” http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/infectious-diseases/articles/2010/06/01/contaminated-cocaine-can-cause-flesh-to-rot.html

“Super-rich drug barons are buying submarines to smuggle tonnes of cocaine out of South America, a Navy commander warned yesterday. “They are using these midget subs to transport drugs and it is possible they can carry several tonnes inside the craft.” He explained the billion-aire drug lords may be buying the underwater craft to avoid…

“DALY CITY, Calif. — An eleventh person* has been hospitalized after apparently overdosing on a drug ingested at an electronic music festival in Daly City over the weekend.The victims became ill after taking a drug believed to be ecstasy at the “etd.POP 2010″ music festival Saturday night at the Cow Palace in Daly City, police…

The Associated Press “HOUSTON – A Texas Department of Public Safety tracking system shows that Harris County doctors rank at the top of the list in writing prescriptions for three highly addictive drugs that officials say give users a “heroin high” when taken together.”

Yes, a tourist might be approached to buy pot. But on the beaches or in the markets, it’s usually fun, fun, fun, and then fly or cruise away. But this week tourists would have seen something very different in the Jamaican capital of Kingston, similar to what has been happening in parts of Mexico since…

The light is falling, the heat is letting up and gunmen have arrived at the modest house with the concrete front yard where there is a birthday party going on. With quiet efficiency they approach the painted wrought iron gates and begin spraying the adults with bullets. Three men crumple to the ground, dead. Two…

WASHINGTON — Could a once-a-month alcoholism shot keep some of the highest-risk heroin addicts from relapse? A drug that wakes up narcoleptics treat cocaine addiction? An old antidepressant fight methamphetamine? This is the next frontier in substance abuse: Better understanding of how addiction overlaps with other brain diseases is sparking a hunt to see if…