June 1st, 2011
New Drug Developed to Erase Bad Memories
We all have memories that we all would like to forget. Mistakes made in the past, poor choices, we all realize our problems and do our best to forget them, but sometimes the strength of our memory does not permit us to. This may all be coming to a change. Around a week ago, researchers […]
May 23rd, 2011
House-sitter Feeds Child Marijuana-laced Margarine
To be fair, the label on the tub was correct when it said “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.” However, it was correct for all the wrong reasons, as it contained not butter, but marijuana-laced margarine. That was what was found in the refrigerator of Stevie C. Hickey, a ...
May 16th, 2011
Prescription Drug Abuse Linked with Increase of Internet Access
With the rising growth of prescription drug abuse, researchers have been trying to determine the cause. The Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Southern California recently suggested that it may in fact be related to the people’s ever-increasing access to the internet and ...
April 28th, 2011
E-Cigarettes To be Regulated as Tobacco
After two years of deliberation, the Federal Drug Administration has decided to regulate Electronic Cigarettes as a tobacco product. The suit began in 2009, when Sottera, a manufacturer of e-cigarettes based in Arizona, sued the FDA after they determined that e-cigarettes were “unapproved ...
April 21st, 2011
Teenager forces Grandmother to smoke Marijuana
In addition to forcing her to write him a check and threatening her life, Andrew Jordan Demkowich, a Pennsylvania teenager allegedly made his elderly grandmother smoke a marijuana cigarette with him. Demkowich is facing many criminal charges as a result of this incident. He was arrested from ...
April 18th, 2011
Medical Marijuana Industry Booming
With 15 states as well as the District of Columbia deeming it legal, medical marijuana has become a rising profitable industry in the United States. Medical marijuana has been shown to assist in alleviating chronic pain and hurtful symptoms of diseases such as AIDS or cancer, and patients in ...
April 13th, 2011
Heroin Addiction Growing in St. Louis
The St. Louis Metro area has seen a rise of heroin addiction in the recent years with an estimated one person dying a day due to overdose. To make matters worse, St. Louis treatment centers are becoming so overwhelmed with addicts that the necessary resources for aid are becoming scarce. For ...
April 11th, 2011
Medical Marijuana banned from Campus
Rhode Island may be one of the handful of states where medical marijuana has been approved, but administrators at Brown University has continued to prohibit the smoking of cannabis on campus, saying that it is still against both state and federal law to do so. Medical marijuana legalization ...
April 8th, 2011
Drugs, Alcohol Use Rising For Teenagers
The latest report from The Partnership at Drugfree has shown that use of alcohol, marijuana, and ecstasy has been on an upward climb for teenagers in between the 9th and 12th grade. The statistics have shown that 68% of teenagers admitted to trying alcohol, and one-fourth of those had tried it ...
April 5th, 2011
Man Hides Marijuana Under Wheelchair
Authorities have arrested 19-year old Donte Jonae Damas, a man posing as a disabled person when crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Damas was not held for feigning an injury, but rather for attempting to smuggle five pounds of marijuana under the seat his wheelchair. Border patrolmen at the San ...
April 4th, 2011
Colorado Considering Marijuana DUI law
Everyone knows what a DUI is – if you are caught driving recklessly, and your blood is above your state’s blood-alcohol limit, then you are put in jail, sentenced in court, and the three letters that represent “Driving Under the Influence” will forever be on your record. ...
March 30th, 2011
Three Inmates, Two Civilians Caught Smuggling Drugs in Coloring Books
Authorities have charged two civilians and three inmates of the Cape May County Correctional Center for a familiar situation: attempting to smuggle drugs into the facility. What makes this particular incident unique, however, is the
March 29th, 2011
State Legislatures Considering Prescriptions for Cold Medicine to Fight Meth Problem
With a number of states facing problems with methamphetamines, bills are being drafted and proposed in legislatures across the country to help fight the problem. One of the many proposed ideas is to require a Doctor’s prescription for popular drugs such as Sudafed. Many of these drugs ...
March 28th, 2011
Arizona Releases Medical Marijuana Rules
Arizona voters recently approved Proposition 203 – a ballot measure allowing Medical Marijuana facilities, and after months of development from the Arizona state health department, The Arizona Department of Health Services has released its rules today for distribution and use of medical ...
March 28th, 2011
Pharmaceutical Prices Continue to Rise
As the country continues to wait on the results of health care reform, prices for popular pharmaceuticals are rising quickly ever as the patents expire on the top-selling medications. Fifteen of the best-selling drugs drugs rose at an incredibly high rate last year at 11.4%. This is the highest ...
March 25th, 2011
More Ecstasy-Users Checked Into Hospitals
According to a recent study published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, more people have been checked into Hospital Emergency Rooms in recent years due to complications from MDMA, otherwise known as Ecstasy. The rate of such incidents have been climbing at a ...
