Drug News

“NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — Four Volusia County middle school students are recovering after suspected prescription drug abuse left them hospitalized.” http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1257355.html

By Rob Ginter – Staff Writer “An employee of a Morehead liquor store has been arrested for allegedly selling drugs from behind the counter.Forty-seven year old Bonita Jesse of Morehead was taken into police custody after they received a complaint of someone selling drugs at The Freight Station Liquor Store.” http://www.themoreheadnews.com/local/local_story_265134458.html

By Lizbeth Diaz “Mexico’s violent drug gangs are increasingly kidnapping illegal migrants for ransom and forcing them to carry narcotics into the United States as they muscle into the lucrative trade of smuggling people across the border.” http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN22465972

“A new spate of violence has pushed the homicide rate in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez to an unprecedented 1,701 murders, breaking the record set just a year earlier in 2008.” http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iPY_KqHNyXXRr35uyyQlF70RxxMQ

“A former supervisor at a North Dakota regional human services center is accused of forging prescriptions to get painkillers.” http://www.kxmc.com/News/441413.asp

“A lethal combination of rock bottom prices combined with a spike in the potency and availability of heroin on Massachusetts streets has led to a startling increase in the number of heroin-related deaths in recent years.” http://www.thebostonchannel.com/investigative/21068822/detail.html

“According to New Martinsville Police Chief Tim Cecil, heroin use by kids is becoming a big issue in not only New Martinsville but in surrounding counties as well. “ http://www.wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=67079

“A federal agency warned this week that cocaine laced with levamisole, a veterinary anti-parasitic drug, has caused 20 cases of a serious medical disorder. “ http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/09/cocaine-levamisole.html

By Megan K. Stack “In the years since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan triggered a sharp increase in poppy cultivation, Russia has been flooded with heroin. The drug has crept along a trail stretching from Afghanistan through Tajikistan and other Central Asian nations and over the Russian border, turning this country into the world’s top…

By Dave Willinger “Gangs exist to accumulate wealth and they do it through drug sales, he said, in particular cocaine and their biggest moneymaker, marijuana. But heroin trafficking is on the rise and the drug increasingly is being purchased by high school students, Spota explained. “Heroin is here,” the district attorney said, and named in…