Feb 2 Drug Headlines

ALCOHOL – USA
Alcohol In Hand Sanitizer Poses Abuse Risk – CBS
Prison officials and poison control centers can add a new substance to their list of intoxicants — hand sanitizer.

ALCOHOL – USA
S.C. bill would ban alcohol vaporizer – Star News Online
A device that turns liquor into a breathable vapor of oxygen and alcohol would be banned under new South Carolina legislation, even though the product is unknown to some law enforcement groups.

METH – USA
Dismantled meth labs doubled in '06 – Herald Journal
The youth said he believed the contents of the bag were suspicious, based on what he had learned at a meth presentation at the school earlier in the year.

ALCOHOL – UK
'Worrying trends' in drink study – BBC News
East Sussex has the highest rate for under-18s having treatment for alcohol in the South East, a report has shown.

PRESCRIPTION – UK
Drug company 'hid' suicide link – BBC News
Secret emails reveal that the UK's biggest drug company distorted trial results of an anti-depressant, covering up a link with suicide in teenagers.

DRUGS – USA
No Child Left Untested? – Newsweek
The White House wants more schools to adopt random student drug-testing programs. NEWSWEEK talks to advocates on both sides of the issue.

METH – AUSTRALIA
Fight drugs at primary school – The Daily Telegraph
PRIMARY students should be taught about the dangers of drugs along with the alphabet and times tables, the Federal Government's chief drug adviser says.

RITALIN – USA
Senate committee advances Ritalin bill – Salt Lake Tribune
The so-called Ritalin bill that would prohibit school employees from recommending psychiatric medication for students passed the Senate Education Committee Thursday and is now only a floor vote and governor's signature away from becoming law.