Feb 7 Drug Headlines

PRESCRIPTION – USA
WA: Prescription Drug Overdose Becomes Big Killer – Join Together
Washington residents are dying from unintended drug poisoning in numbers beginning to approach deaths in car crashes, and overdose deaths blamed on legal drugs now exceed fatal overdoses caused by illicit drugs.

DRUGS – UK
UNODC launches updated multilingual dictionary of drugs under international control – United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime today launched an updated multilingual dictionary of all drugs controlled under the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and the Convention on Psychotropic Substances.

METH – UK
Move to ban ice pipes welcome – The Hon Christopher Pyne MP
A move by the Queensland Government to ban the sale and display of ice pipes in Queensland has been welcomed by the Assistant Minister for Health and Ageing, Christopher Pyne.