The findings are clear evidence of the link between drugs and crime. It is imperative that we address our nation's drug problem not just as a criminal justice issue but as a public health issue. We cannot arrest our way out of the drug problem.
AP | ROBERT JABLON | Posted 04.16.2012
LOS ANGELES -- A sophisticated online drug marketplace that sold everything from marijuana to mescaline to some 3,000 people around the world has been...
AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 04.11.2012
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will face fresh pressure on Cuba and illegal drugs when he meets this week with Latin American leaders, some...
Melissa Sher | Posted 05.23.2012
There are lots and lots of other moms out there who need a few extra minutes every now and then to go to the bathroom alone. Or shower and shave their legs. Or talk on the phone with a friend without having to yell at anyone to "stop licking the baby!"
David Katz, M.D. | Posted 04.30.2012
Consistency, it is said, is the mark of a true champion. Utter lack of consistency, therefore, must indicate something else entirely. I'll be kind and call it: nincompoopery. When it comes to public health policy, we are a pack of utter nincompoops.
AP | Posted 04.29.2012
VIENNA (AP) — A U.N. drug agency is warning that illegal internet pharmacies are selling illicit drugs and prescription medicines online and are inc...
Dr. Jane Greer | Posted 03.26.2012
For Locklear it may be that her fears of the past have become her fences of the present. Hopefully she will get the help she needs to be able to tackle the underlying problems, instead of trying to numb what she is feeling, so that perhaps she can finally be able to stop running.
Posted 12.27.2011
Criminals are making out like bandits with a sizable chunk of the world's economy. Criminal proceeds amounted to 3.6 percent of global gross domes...
Mark Morford | Posted 12.11.2011
I'm looking at you, Johns Hopkins University, for once again coming out with a timid little study reinforcing what everyone already knew. Once again, we find that magic mushrooms really are rather astonishing wonderfungi.
Eric Farnsworth | Posted 11.30.2011
Violence has spiked and people are dying gruesome, preventable deaths in Central America, Mexico, and elsewhere as a result of U.S. consumer tastes. Blood diamonds? No, conflict drugs.
AP | NIGEL DUARA | Posted 11.28.2011
EUGENE, Ore. — Sometime after midnight on a moonlit rural Oregon highway, a state trooper checking a car he had just pulled over found pot on a ...
AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 11.05.2011
NEW YORK -- In many ways, the reputed drug dealers on Grandview Place were good neighbors. Their two-story, red-brick home in the New York City subur...
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 09.26.2011
After six arrests, being doused with pepper-spray, and enduring other police harassment, 30-year-old Joshua Long, or the "weed man" of Times Square, i...
Graham Bensinger | Posted 09.19.2011
The 2006 Tour de France winner, Floyd Landis, tells me about the doping scandal that ruined his career and delves into the alleged drug use by his former teammate, Lance Armstrong.
HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 09.18.2011
WASHINGTON -- Actor Martin Sheen pressed senators to expand federal funding for drug courts on Tuesday during testimony before a Senate Judiciary subc...
Posted 08.31.2011
The U.S. Justice Department is declaring open season on large-scale growers, sellers and distributors of marijuana. This means trouble for the 16 s...
Posted 08.22.2011
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The Huffington Post | Andrea Rael | Posted 07.12.2011
According to a study released today by Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, teens are less likely to try meth even once, thanks in large part to wo...
Posted 05.25.2011
With the increased influence of the Internet, the production of so-called "designer drugs" is soaring out of control throughout muh of the world, a ne...
Posted 05.25.2011
Call it a case of high-flying criminal ingenuity: Colombia police captured a carrier pigeon trying to fly into a Bucarmanga jail with marijuana and co...
Tony Newman | Posted 05.25.2011
We need to educate people about the possible harms of drug use, offer compassion and treatment to people who have problems, and leave in peace the people who are not causing harm.
The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011
In a government effort to curb what is perhaps their nation's best-known vice, Dutch households will soon receive marijuana-scented scratch-and-sniff ...
Steve Bloom | Posted 05.25.2011
"Reefer Movie Madness: The Ultimate Stoner Guide" runs the gamut, from pot comedies to druggy dramas to movies that are simply fun to watch stoned -- over 420 of them.
Joseph A. Califano Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
With this morning's government report on the shocking increase in all drug use by Americans age 12 and older, we are more than half way back to the highest drug use this nation has ever experienced.
Joseph A. Califano Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
The greatest and most costly failure of the medical profession and public health community is their failure to explain to the American people that addiction to alcohol and other drugs is a disease.
R. Gil Kerlikowske | Posted 05.17.2012