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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.

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Monday

Feb 5 Drug Headlines

MORPHINE – INDIA
Healing, with a pinch of salt – Hindustan Times
If you ever wanted reconfirmation, here is a living proof that faith can take you where modern-day physicians would fear to tread.

HYDROCODONE – USA
Prescription painkillers causing more fatal overdoses in WA – The Columbian
Statewide deaths linked to prescription drugs such as hydrocodone and methadone increased by more than 800 percent in a ten-year period, according to new research.

METH – USA
Meth destroying teeth of prisoners, causing dental budget to soar – ABC News
Methamphetamine use can turn a healthy set of teeth into a rotting mess. And its widespread use is causing a surge in the dental budget of Nevada's prison system.

METH – USA
The Salt Lake Methamphetamine Conference Gets Underway – Stop the DrugWar
The 2nd National Conference on Methamphetamine, HIV, and Hepatitis is now in its second day.

CODEINE – AUSTRALIA
Implants fail to stop overdose – Herald Sun
An implant designed to help heroin addicts kick their habit could contribute to their deaths.

METH – USA
County zeroes in on meth use – Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
The Cheyenne and Laramie County Methamphetamine Assessment Report will be released at a news conference and public presentation Thursday at the Cheyenne-Kiwanis Community House in Lions Park.

METH – GERMANY
Meth Addicts now Using Urine to Get High – Short News
Meth addicts and dealers appear to have devised a disgusting new method of administering the illicit substance.

METH – USA
DEALING WITH ADDICTION: Meth punishes users' mouths – Review Journal
Dentists work to correct devastating, unique oral effects of drug

DRUGS – UK
The never ending drug scam – Drug Link blog
For several years, small businesses have been targeted by fraudulent publishing companies over the production of drug education and other materials for school children.

ALCOHOL – USA
Heavy Alcohol Drinking Takes Excessive Toll on Women With Hepatitis C – eMaxHealth
Women tend to survive longer than men if infected with the liver-destroying hepatitis C virus (HCV) - but if they drink alcohol heavily, that survival advantage completely disappears, according to a new study.

ALCOHOL – USA
Program helps parents talk about drugs, alcohol – Foster's Online
It might not be as sexy as talking about the "birds and the bees," but 120 city parents now are better prepared to have a similarly life changing discussion about the dangers of drugs and alcohol.

OXYCODONE – USA
Police say man jumped pharmacy counter, stole drugs – KWWL.com
A Marion man has been arrested on second-degree theft charges after allegedly hopping a pharmacy counter and stealing nearly 17-hundred-dollars in prescription medications.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Prescription painkillers causing more fatal overdoses in WA – Seattle pi
Statewide deaths linked to prescription drugs such as hydrocodone and methadone increased by more than 800 percent in a ten-year period, according to new research.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Prescription drug abuse big in Livingston County – KQ2.com
Battling drugs that aren’t illegal is the biggest burden in a Midland Empire community. Prescription drugs are among the highest abused in the nation, and right in Livingston County.

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