Feb 19 Drug Headlines

OPIUM – MEXICO
Anti-drug raids hit border – The Herald
Officials also said that in the two months since intensive raids began in central and western Mexico they have destroyed almost as many opium fields as plots of marijuana, long Mexico´s principal drug crop.

MORPHINE – USA
Drug test science adapts with the times – Charleston Daily Mail
If lighting up a marijuana joint is in your evening plans, you’d better hope you’re not screened for drugs within the next 30 days.

DRUGS – UK
The terrible logic of kids, drugs and killing – Times Online
Whenever I met young drug dealers who had either shot others or themselves been shot, I wondered whether they had any real notion of death as a permanent state of oblivion.

PESCRIPTION – USA
Makers of Cough Remedies Join with Anti-Drug Coalitions to Fight Medicine Abuse – Consumer Healthcare Products Association
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) and Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) today launched a new campaign designed to educate communities about how to prevent cough medicine abuse among teenagers.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Deadly risk seen from interactions of OTC, prescription meds – Denver Post
The timing of two recent news items - a national health report and the autopsy of an R&B singer - was coincidental. But coming on the same day, they illustrated a deadly, growing problem with prescription and over-the-counter medications.

ALCOHOL – NEW ZEALAND
Alcohol review targets teens – Stuff
The Government is looking for ways to prevent underage teenagers from getting alcohol as experts point to its devastating effects.

DRUGS – AUSTRALIA
Dope loses its cool – Herald Sun
The drug once perceived as harmless is now overwhelming viewed as dangerous, addictive and linked to a range of serious health and social problems.