Drug News

By Michael LaForgiaPalm Beach Post Staff Writer “Regardless of laws aimed at preventing overdoses, the spread of pain clinics is making it increasingly easy for addicts such as Bartolucci to score drugs in Palm Beach County, authorities said. “We all need to wake up. It’s killing our youth,” said Bartolucci’s grieving mother, Gina. “It’s too…

By JESSIE STENSLAND, WHIDBEY NEWS TIMES “The Island County Health Department temporarily closed down the Acorn Motor Inn in Oak Harbor Tuesday after testing showed methamphetamine contamination in a room and hallways. The motel is the fourth business in the Oak Harbor area that have been shut down and posted with “unfit for use” orders…

“A candidate for Orlando City Council has been arrested and charged with trafficking in prescription drugs.” http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1332120.html

“A Lexington city employee is in jail for trafficking heroin and police say a 19 year old was conspiring with him to sell drugs out of the home.”

“The Fort Collins City Council will discuss placing a 10-month moratorium on issuing new permits for medical marijuana dispensaries within the city limits at its Nov. 17 meeting.” http://www.ncbr.com/article.asp?id=102990

“Melbourne, November 15 (ANI): A new drug called Mephedrone or MM-Cat, which is said to be “a cross between cocaine and ecstasy,” is being sold through the web,has emerged.” http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/designer-drug-billed-as-cross-between-cocaine-and-ecstasy-hit-online_100275069.html

“About 130,000 people in Iran become addicted to drugs each year, the Iranian police chief said, acknowledging the scale of the problem for a country on a key heroin trafficking route.” http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSDAH544630

“West Africa is among the world’s poorest, least developed and most politically unstable regions. This patchwork of coastal nation-states has long been exploited by international profiteers, from the slave traders who fed off it for centuries to the European colonizers who later tried to sculpt tropical replicas of France, England and Portugal.Today it is buffeted…

“The RCMP has launched a new national anti-drug campaign that features the story of a young B.C. woman who died last year after overdosing on illegal synthetic drugs.” http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20091113/bc_ecstasy_awareness_091112/20091113/?hub=BritishColumbiaHome

by Rob Poindexter “In the past few months we’ve seen police sieze a pound and a half of cocaine in Augusta, and nearly 3000 marijuana plants in Washington County.Drug related arrests have risen steadily in Maine the past 10 years. In 1998 there were less than 4000 drug arrests, compared to nearly 6000 in 2008.”…