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Flagrant drug use, suggestive material and a shocking message. It’s all part of the ‘Not Even Once’ ad campaign launched by the Colorado Meth Project and officials say it’s helping win the war on meth. http://www.nbc11news.com/home/headlines/92721969.html

A drug operation at a San Jose middle school was broken up by police after four children were taken to the hospital. Sergeant Ronnie Lopez of the San Jose Police says that on Friday afternoon, an 11-year-old girl at Piedmont Middle School reported she had taken pills and felt dizzy. School officials then called police.…

Drug violence in the Mexican state of Chihuahua left 24 people dead in the span of 24 hours this weekend, the state attorney general’s office said Sunday. The killings were scattered over four locations throughout the state, with eight dead in Juarez, 10 killed in the capital of Chihuahua, five killed in Cuauhtemuc and one…

The organized-crime epidemic in Latin America, spawned by a U.S. drug policy more than four decades in the making, seems to be leeching into American cities. Powerful underworld networks supplying gringo drug users are becoming increasingly bold about expanding their businesses. In 2008, U.S. officials said that Mexican drug cartels were serving their customers in…

The headlines about “cheese” overdose deaths have faded, but Dallas-area treatment centers still struggle to keep up with a high number of teens as young as 13 addicted to the mix of heroin and sleep aids. “It hasn’t let up,” said Janet Anselmo-Henson, manager of the Dallas County juvenile department’s substance abuse programs. “Kids are…

There isn’t much attention paid to prescription drug abuse, except perhaps when a Hollywood star dies from an overdose. However, it is estimated that nearly one in five Americans has used prescription drugs for nonmedicinal reasons, and 15 percent may be abusing prescription drugs. This silent epidemic has become the leading cause of addiction. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-prescription-drug-abuse-20100421,0,6657110.story

It’s been 10 years since Colorado voted to allow the use and sale of marijuana for medical reasons. But in the past six months, the number of patients and dispensaries has skyrocketed. ……Dispensaries, however, are far more than smoking dens. Marijuana is bought and sold in an array of edible forms, such as caramel corn…

In a scene reminiscent of the old TV show 21 Jump Street, police on Friday arrested 16 students accused of delivering drugs on Brazoria County’s Columbia High School campus after an undercover officer posing as a student named “Victor” allegedly bought the goods from them. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6962267.html

The proposed bill would make selling synthetic urine illegal and is an effort to help drug testing companies combat the problem of falsified drug tests. “I’ve always said out of thirty people who walk into my office, at least 5 people have someone else’s urine, and I think that number varies but increases daily,” said…

Data released by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine show that hospital visits caused by accidental and unintentional prescription drug overdoses went up 37 percent from 1999 to 2006. That amounted to 741,425 people needing emergency care. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/health/6958326.html