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Keeping Alcohol in the Spotlight: 6 Facts

Deni Carise | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Addiction, Drug, Overdose, Alcohol, Mental Health, Drug Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Abuse Effects, Substance Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, Abuse of Alcohol, Healthy Living News

Cocaine, heroin and now prescription drugs continue to occupy the headlines -- as indeed they should -- but alcohol deserves the same attention. Our nation's alcohol problem may not seem as scandalous, but it's just as serious.

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Suitcase-Sized Device May Revolutionize Malaria Treatment

AP | By DAVID RISING | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Malaria, Artemisinin, Video, Artemisinic Acid, Tropics, Medicine, Drug, Tropical Medicine, Science News

BERLIN -- German scientists have developed a new way to make a key malaria drug that they say could easily quadruple production and drop the price sig...

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Legal Drug Injection Facility Saves Lives, Should Stay Open, Rules Canada Court

AP | JEREMY HAINSWORTH | Posted 11.30.2011

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — North America's only legal drug injection facility saves lives and should stay open, Canada's Supreme Court ruled ...

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Iraqi-Mexican Drug And Weapons Operation Busted In California

AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Chaldean Organized Crime Syndicate, Mexican Cartels, Mexican Drug Cartels, Drug Cartels, Bust, Drug Bust, Iraqi-Mexican, Detroit, El Cajon, Sinaloa, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Weapons, Drug, Crime News

SAN DIEGO — Federal officials said Thursday they've busted a drug trafficking ring involving Mexico's most powerful cartel and members of an Ira...

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Cops: 'They Were So High They Called 911 On Themselves'

AP | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Dumb Crime, 911 Call, Weird Georgia, 911, Effingham County, Georgia, Drugs, Dumb 911 Calls, Methamphetamine, Georgia Crime, Drug, Hallucinations, Weird News News

SPRINGFIELD, Ga. -- South Georgia authorities say two men became so high on drugs they began hallucinating and called 911 when they thought intruders ...

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Weekly Pulse: Paul Ryan's Medicare Swindle

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Gop, Tom Laskawy, Poverty, Hiv, RH Reality Check, Budget, Wic, Mitt Romney, Addiction, Pregnancy, Lynn Paltrow, Opiate, Iowa Independent, Drug, Republican, Tapped, Robert Parry, Aswini Anburajan, Hunger, Lynda Waddington, Insurance, National Advocates for Pregnant Woman, Food, Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Paul Ryan, In These Times, Aids, Grist, Adap, Politics News

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Robert Parry in In These Times examines how Paul Ryan's budget test would turn healthcare for the elde...

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A Burrito, a Power Nap, and Some Adderall

Justin Cox | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prescription Drugs, Careers, Homework, College, Adderall, Drug, Adderall-College, College News

This is a story about a $3 burrito, an Adderall pill and a realization I had one year later.

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'Most Promising' New Diet Drug Rejected by FDA

AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diet Pill, Health, Contrave, Orexigen, Fda, Diet, Drug, Diet Drug, Home News

WASHINGTON — The government on Tuesday unexpectedly rejected what appeared to be the most promising candidate among a class of new diet drugs, w...

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Weekly Pulse: Don't Snort Bath Salts, Kids

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democracy Now!, Aclu, Tort Reform, RH Reality Check, James O'keefe, Hot Coffee, Jill Stanek, Movie, Mary Landrieu, Lawsuit, Drug, Amphetamine, Mcdonalds, Clinic, Sundance, Abortion, Sting, Sex Ed, Sundance Film Festival, Jodi Jacobson, Bath Salt, Care2, Film, Planned Parenthood, Robin Marty, Choice, Plant Food, Radio, Documentary, Sex Traffic, Amy Goodman, Fbi, Home News

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger According to Robin Marty of Care2.org, today's young whippersnappers are snorting bath salts and pl...

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Weekly Pulse: End-of-Life Counseling Returns, But Death Panels Still Nonsense

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birth, Abortion, American Prospect, American Independent, Statistics, Abuse, Death Panels, John Tomasic, Pharmaceutical, Rate, Colorado Independent, Medicaid, Fertility, Cdc, Teenage, Martha Rosenberg, Facebook, Sarah Palin, Drug, Fraud, Deficit, Advocates for Youth, Insurance, Guttmacher Institute, Jason Hancock, Health, Waste, Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Health Care, Home News

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger A proposed program to cover counseling sessions for seniors on end-of-life care has risen from the a...

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Cocaine Sentencing Injustice Slightly Lessened

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Law, Freebase, President Obama, Congress, Obama, Sentencing, War on Drugs, Coke, Injustice, Barack Obama, Drug, Crack, Sentence, Richard Pryor, Mandatory Minimum, Five Year, Prison, Chris Weigant, Disparity, Powder, Jail, Drug War, Dealer, Cocaine, Politics News

In true incrementalist fashion, Democrats have now made things slightly less unfair, but fell far short of actual fairness. It's as if, right after the Civil War, Congress announced that black people would now count as four-fifths of a person.

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Dancing for Rain in the Eye of a Hurricane

Dean Becker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Network, Ciudad, El Paso, Drug, Juarez, Truth, Home News

I'm fed up to here! The logic of the drug war has been proven to be lacking in countless ways, yet it continues. More than 22,000 are now dead in Me...

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Gross National Happiness

Matthew Anderson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Illicit Drug Use, Bhutan, Gdp, Drug, Gross National Happiness, Drug Use, Healthy Living News

Americans represent four percent of the world's population and sixty percent of the world's illicit drug usage. Why is America bailing out of its own culture at such an alarming rate?

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'The Hurt Locker' vs. 'Avatar': Were the Academy Awards Small-Minded?

Dr. Wendy Jacobson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker, Greed, Destruction, Goodness, Epic, Academy Awards, War, The Oscars, Drug, Game Changer, Searing, Harmony, James Cameron, Soulfulness, Small-Minded, Soaring, Avatar, Human Nature, Entertainment News

Was the message to Cameron, "You've gotten quite enough awards and kudos for Titanic and the rest of your work. Be satisfied"?

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Holder's Baby Step On Medical Marijuana

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2835, Necessity, Medical Necessity, President Obama, Glaucoma, Marijuana, Barney Frank, Dea, Doj, Raid, Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative, Medical, Medical Marijuana, Obama, War on Drugs, Injustice, Drug, Eric Holder, California, Drug Enforcement Agency, Gonzales v Raich, Federal Prosecutor, Schedule I, Schedule, Ed Rosenthal, Marinol, Schedule II, Medical Use, US v Rosenthal, Drug War, Department of Justice, Justice, Federal Attorney, Oakland, Gag Rule, Federal, Attorney General, Necessity Defense, US v OCBC, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Holder, Controlled Substances Act, Ag, Cannabis, Chris Weigant, Ashcroft v Raich, hr2835, Drug Policy, Medical Necessity Defense, Raich, Ocbc, Rosenthal, Politics News

Obama's plan is good news for medical marijuana advocates, but although this is a historic shift in the War on Drugs, it does not go far enough because it does not resolve the illogic of the underlying legal issue.

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Amritsar: India's Heroin Capital (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Afghanistan Heroin Trade, India Drugs, Amritsar Drug Problem, Drug War, Pakistan, Heroin India, Drug, Drugs, Afghanistan, War on Drugs, Amritsar, Heroin, Amritsar Drug, Video, World News

Al Jazeera's Prerna Suri reports on the devastating effects of drugs in one of India's most holy cities, Amritsar. The city, home to the Golden Templ...

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Pfizer-Wyeth Deal Approved By FTC

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, Divestiture, Federal Trade Commission, Anticompetitive, Drug, Eu, Wyeth, Divest, ftc.gov, Pharmaceutical, Merger, Ftc, Pfizer, Conditions, Business News

NEW YORK (AFP) -- US regulators gave tentative approval Wednesday to a deal allowing Pfizer to buy pharmaceutical Wyeth, boosting the size of the worl...

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Mexican Army Accused Of Torture By Amnesty International

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexico, Army, Mexican Army, Torture, Drug, Drug War, Amnesty International, Drug Cartels, Mexico Drug Carters, World News

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Gunmen killed a university student in the deadly Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, prosecutors said Wednesday. Chih...

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More Than Half Million Kids React Badly To Drugs

AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Hospitalization, Kids, Children, Prevention, Health, Side Effects, Prescription Drugs, Antibiotics, Medical Treatment, Drugs, Medicine, Penicillin, Children's Health, Drug, Wellness, Healthy Living News

CHICAGO — More than half a million U.S. children yearly have bad reactions or side effects from widely used medicines that require medical treat...

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An American's Traumatic Journey Through A Moroccan Jail

GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Moroccan Jails, World, Vacation in Morocco, Morocco, Moroccan Prison, Spain, Des Moines, Drugs, Drug, Vacation in Spain, Middle America, Illinois, King of Morocco, Morroccan Jails, World News

RABAT, Morocco -- When Moroccan guards came to release Illinois retiree James Douglas Willson from prison, he believed that they'd come to shoot him. ...

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Make Marijuana Legal And Help Save The Environment

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 05.25.2011

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The war on drugs may be a noble intention, but the illegal growing of marijuana is destroying our environment and we need to step in. Primarily run...

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Face The Inquisition

Dean Becker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Network, Goebbels, Heresy, Hitler, Torquemada, Radio, War, Inquisition, Drug, Truth, Politics News

Today's "compassionate" drug warriors have fractured the futures and pulverized the possibilities of more than 37,000,000 US citizens.

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Who Are the Drug Lords?

Dean Becker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grim, Ryan, Law Enforcement, Drug, Prohibition, Truth, War, Politics News

The real kingpins are bankers, pharmaceutical house CEOs, weapons manufacturers and a thousand other corporate interests whose gross profits depend on violence, hatred, distrust and deception.

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Are We Totally Blowing Our New Media Freedom? My 10 Health Care Reform Videos

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Service Announcements, Lobby, Video, Bob Cesca, Morning Joe, Twitter, Grassroots, Lobbyists, Health, Max Baucus, Youtube, Lawrence Lessig, Healthcare, Drug, Media News

I made 10 short videos about health care reform. I wasn't hired to do it, I wasn't asked to do it. I just did it because the issue is important to me personally, to my family and to my country. And I did it because I could.

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Barney Frank Introduces Marijuana Legislation

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dangerous Controlled Substance, White House, President Obama, Marijuana, Ron Paul, Barney Frank, Dea, Medical Marijuana, Obama, Drug, President, Drug Enforcement Agency, John Stuart Mill, Schedule I, Schedule, Schedule II, Medical Use, Bill Maher, Committee, House, Frank, Democrat, Henry Waxman, Paul, Democrats, Barack Obama, Marijuana Patient Protection Act, Dana Rohrabacher, Chris Weigant, Controlled Substance Act, Drug Policy, Personal Use, Rohrabacher, Politics News

How many Democrats do we need to elect to Congress before such commonsense laws are passed to rein in some of the excesses of past eras?

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