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It’s a new twist on an old drug and it’s becoming increasingly more popular among teens in Arizona. The drug is called “Butane Hash Oil” or BHO. On the street it goes by many names including shatter, wax, ear wax, honey oil, amber or dabbing. Dabbing because you only need a dab. “It’s something that…

The Government’s Results from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National Findings and Detailed Tables, finds that 8.9 percent of full-time employees and 12.5 percent of part-time employees, 18 years of age and older, are current illicit drug users, while 18.1 percent of unemployed adults in that age group are…

Abuse of prescription painkillers is one of the top emerging threats to workplace safety and public health, National Safety Council CEO Janet Froetscher said Monday. In a keynote address at the 2013 National Safety Congress and Expo in Chicago, Froetscher pointed out that 45 people die from abuse of prescription pain medications everyday – more…

Drug use among America’s youth is dropping, but it’s booming among people over 50, a U.S. government survey released Wednesday shows. Last year, the rate of illicit drug use among children and teenagers 12 to 17 years old dropped to 9.5 percent, down from 11.6 percent a decade earlier, according to the Substance Abuse and…

A new study at UC San Francisco’s Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center has revealed that cocaine may rewire the brain and drastically affect decision-making after just one use. While similar studies have revealed such rewiring in long-term use, the new study’s results are especially alarming, showing that the brain can be altered after one…

Regular marijuana use during adolescence, but not adulthood, may permanently impair the brain and increase the risk for certain psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, according to an article published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology. “Over the past 20 years, there has been a major controversy about the long-term effects of marijuana, with some evidence that use…

ELLENSBURG, Wash.—This small city east of the Cascade Mountains is known for its hay farms, rodeos and, increasingly, something more sinister: a growing heroin problem. The drug surfaced in the past two years and is spawning a new generation of addicts. The fatal overdose of a state trooper’s son in May convulsed the town—especially when…

WASHINGTON – More parents need to talk with their teens about the dangers of abusing Ritalin, Adderall and other prescription drugs, suggests a new study that finds discouraging trends on kids and drug use. When teens were asked about the last substance abuse conversation they had with their parents, just 14 percent said they talked…

ROCKFORD (WREX) -The summer can be a dangerous time when it comes to drugs. The Illinois Poison Center sees more cases of overdoses now than any other time of year. The Poison center says hallucinogenic drugs seem to gain popularity over these warm months and they are showing up in places from major concert venues…

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