Jan 12 Drug Headlines

ADDICTION – USA
Powers of addiction, difficulty with withdrawals
Addiction is defined in Webster's Dictionary as: Compulsive need for and use of a habbit forming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal;
Broadly: persistent compulsive use of a substance

METH – USA
Meth in Amador – Ledger Dispatch
This is the first of a three-part series examining the local impact of methamphetamine. Part one examines the impacts of the drug on the county's law enforcement and court systems.

MENTAL HEALTH – UK
Government defeated over right to refuse mental treatment – Mental Health Foundation
The Government was defeated tonight when peers backed a move to ensure psychiatric patients are able to refuse treatment in the same way as people with physical health problems.

ADDICTION – AUSTRALIA
Ice-addicted mums killing unborn children – The Age
Mothers addicted to the drug ice are killing their unborn children in a plague worse than the cocaine epidemic of the 1980s, a doctor has warned.