Dec 10 Drug Headlines

GENERAL - SCOTLAND
Top traffic policeman warns officers are 'powerless' to tackle drug-drivers - Scotsman
Scotland's most senior traffic policeman has admitted that officers are "powerless" to stop drug-drivers and that reliable tests capable of securing convictions are years away.

PRESCRIPTION - US
Ritalin on campus a growing problem - News Times Live
A 15-page paper to write. A major final exam to study for. When the pressure is on, college students sometimes feel they need a little help to make sure they can concentrate. Sometimes that help is a pill.

OPIUM - AFGHAN
For Many In Opium-infested Afghanistan, Drug Addiction Can Begin In The Womb
Farida's son inherited her drug addiction in the womb, and drank her opium-laced breast milk. And when he cried and fussed, she calmed him with specks of opium diluted in tea.

OPIUM - AFGHAN
U.S. anti-drug chief: Afghan poppies to be sprayed with herbicide - International Herlad Tribune
The top U.S. anti-drug official said Saturday that Afghan poppies would be sprayed with herbicide to combat an opium trade that produced a record heroin haul this year, a measure likely to anger farmers and scare Afghans unfamiliar with weed killers.


OPIUM - AFGHAN
Opium poppy crop to be sprayed - Los Angeles Times
The top U.S. anti-drug official said Afghan poppies would be sprayed with herbicide to combat an opium trade that produced a record heroin haul this year.

METH - US
The fear on meth: Local lab output - The Boston Globe
When 12 pounds of crystal methamphetamine arrived in Seabrook on Oct. 24 , officials say, federal Drug Enforcement Agency agents and Seabrook police officers were ready. They arrested four men and seized the drugs, which had an estimated $1.5 million street value -- the largest amount ever seized in New England .

METH - US
Meth 'superlabs' move to Mexico - Daily Press
Even criminal enterprises are outsourcing jobs to Mexico. As a mark of success for the Methamphetamine Interdiction Team, it seems the push to shut down “superlabs” within San Bernardino County — capable of creating dozens of pounds of meth per batch — has created a booming industry just south of the border.

PRESCRIPTION - US
Blumenthal targets Internet sales of prescription drugs - News Time Live
The ability to obtain drugs without a prescription has grown not only from those who sell their pills to others, but also from sales on the Internet.

PRESCRIPTION - US
ADHD drugs may have 'addictive and emotional' side effects - News Time Live
They are drugs that doctors give to 8-year-olds. How dangerous can they be? Plenty. Medical experts said that drugs like Ritalin and Adderall are prescribed to children -- and adults -- with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, for specific reasons.