Drugs

Boulder High School Students Overdose On Painkillers

Boulder Daily Camera | Vanessa Miller | Posted 12.03.2009 | Denver


Five Justice High School students are recovering today after overdosing on prescription painkillers that one student brought to class Wednesday, accor...

New York City on the Brink: The Truth Behind "The Darkness"

Jason Pinter | Posted 11.24.2009 | Books


Jason Pinter

With unemployment skyrocketing, the city facing a $5 billion gap, with fewer cops on the streets and more people needing to do whatever it takes to survive, New York City is a powder keg.

316,000 Christmas Bongs SEIZED In Los Angeles

AP | Posted 11.20.2009 | Los Angeles


(AP Text, Scroll Down For Video) LOS ANGELES - Customs officials say they got a surprise when they found 316,000 glass bongs disguised as Christmas o...

Let's Eliminate Welfare for Terrorists

Mike Gray | Posted 11.19.2009 | World


Mike Gray

International drug prohibition, headed by the United States, has, in effect, created a global mechanism that is in the process of eating our civilization alive. Fortunately, we can reverse it with a pen stroke.

Can Pot Save Denver's Papers?

Jessica Corry | Posted 11.19.2009 | Denver


Jessica Corry

As the loss of the Rocky Mountain News still lingers, the focus now turns to saving the publications remaining. Essential revenue could come from the most unlikely of sources. Marijuana.

Schizophrenia Study Finds Similarities Across 37 Countries

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living


An international study of more than 17,000 people with schizophrenia has found striking similarities in symptoms, medication, employment and sexual pr...

Addiction: Holidays Are A Time To Secure Boundaries

Carole Bennett | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living


Carole Bennett

No matter how you view the holidays, there is added pressure and anxiety if you want your loved one to be part of the picture but they are struggling with a substance abuse issue.

A Sports Fan's Guide To Drug Testing

Wall Street Journal | Posted 11.16.2009 | Sports


We examined antidoping policies of 22 major sports or governing bodies and gave them a "clarity quotient" based on the presence of a policy, its acces...

Liquid Marijuana Bust In Brooklyn

nytimes.com | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York


In what the police called an unusual drug arrest, a Brooklyn man was charged on Wednesday with selling liquid marijuana. ...

War On Drugs Doesn't Go Well, CIA Bugs DEA Agent's Coffee Table

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics


Allison Kilkenny

The U.S. has agreed to pay $3 million to a former government worker who accused officials with the CIA and State Department of spying on him with a "bugged coffee table."

Andre Agassi ... Keep Your Head Up, Dude

Dr. Johnny Benjamin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Sports


Dr. Johnny Benjamin

Andre Agassi does not appear, to me, to be financially motivated, He appears to be a human being attempting to grow and find a happier sustainable place in this world.

Gunmen Open Fire On AA Meeting In Mexico, Killing 1

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home


MEXICO CITY -- Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wo...

Face the Facts -- and End the War on Drugs

Johann Hari | Posted 11.10.2009 | World


Johann Hari

The unofficial slogan of the prohibitionists for decades has been: The facts will only undermine the war, so invent some that show how successful we are, fast. Look at the United States.

Poet Pride: A Charm City Classic on Film

Timothy Cooper | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment


Timothy Cooper

A new basketball documentary, Poet Pride, takes a look at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. This famed East Baltimore institution has produced some of the greatest basketball players in the country.

Cocaethylene Studied: Cocaine, Alcohol Mix To Create Toxic 3rd Chemical

The Observer | Jamie Doward | Posted 11.07.2009 | Living


Drug addiction clinics say they are becoming increasingly concerned by the health risks associated with the chemical -- the only known example of the ...

Britain Becomes "Designer Drugs" Capital Of Europe

guardian.co.uk | Alan Travis in Brussels | Posted 11.05.2009 | World


Britain has become the online "designer drugs" capital of Europe with more than a third of all internet retailers that sell "legal highs" based in the...

Really Special Education: State Investigation Confirms "Lap Dance Therapy" Allegations

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living


Maia Szalavitz

A series of investigations could spell the beginning of the end for the billion dollar, taxpayer funded troubled teen industry.

High Time!

Shan Wells | Posted 11.04.2009 | Denver


Shan Wells

When even old George Will thinks Mary Jane is riding the Freedom Express, you know that national legalization can't be too far away.

Jodie Sweetin: I Faked Sobriety, Hid Drug Use (VIDEO)

Posted 11.02.2009 | Entertainment


Former "Full House" child star Jodie Sweetin has an autobiography, "Unsweetined: A Memoir," coming out chronicling her battle with drugs and alcohol, ...

Mark McGwire Needs to Tell the Truth

Graham Bensinger | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment


Graham Bensinger

He retired from the game just before the Steroid Era came to light. While he previously denied illegal performance enhancing drug use, those denials stopped when under penalty of perjury.

Inside The Tripper's Brain: Scientists Create 3D Maps Of Brains On Drugs (VIDEO)

Posted 10.26.2009 | Technology


See video below "What does a trip to hell look like inside the mind?" this National Geographic segment asks. Find out in the video below, which tak...

An Endless -- and Escalating -- War at Home, Part II

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 10.26.2009 | Denver


Wayne Trujillo

After gentrification the problems populating inner-city neighborhoods like Five Points aren't solved. They just relocate.

Scott Weiland's Ex Details Their Heroin Use

nypost.com | Posted 10.24.2009 | Entertainment


Mary Forsberg Weiland and her husband, Stone Temples Pilot frontman Scott Weiland, were so addicted to heroin they showed up to a Fourth of July party...

David Cross: I Snorted Cocaine 40 Feet From Obama

popeater.com | Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment


He's a comedian, so who knows if he's joking or not, but David Cross is claiming he brought cocaine to the recent White House Correspondents' Associat...

John Haig Marshall: Former Reserve Cop Accused Of Drugging, Raping And Shaving Friend

The Los Angeles Times | Tony Barboza | Posted 10.20.2009 | Los Angeles


A former Redondo Beach reserve police officer has been arrested for allegedly drugging an acquaintance, raping him and shaving off the victim's body h...