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

The Observer | Jamie Doward | Posted 11.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Uk, Social Drinking, Beer, Addiction, Liver, Drugs, Coke, Heart Problems, Liquor, Social Drug Use, Cocaethylene, Health, Alcohol, Wine, Us, Medicine, Heart Failure, Cocaine, Living News

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

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Britain Becomes "Designer Drugs" Capital Of Europe

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

Read More: Britain, Drugs, Legal Highs, Europe, England, Designer Drugs, London-United Kingdom, World News

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...

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

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Supreme Court, Taxes, Expensive Lap Dances, Education, Add, Disabilities, Teens, Addiction, Treatment, Mount Bachelor Academy, Drugs, Troubled Teens, Living News
Maia Szalavitz

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

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High Time!

Shan Wells | Posted 11.04.2009 | Denver

Read More: Breckenridge, Marijuana, George Will, Medical Marijuana, Drugs, War on Drugs, Marijuana Legalization, Cartoon, 2009 Elections, Legalize Marijuana, Drug Legalization, Weed, Colorado, Denver, Denver News
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.

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

Posted 11.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jodie Sweetin Today Show, Drugs, Video, Jodie Sweetin, Entertainment News

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

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Mark McGwire Needs to Tell the Truth

Graham Bensinger | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jose Canseco, Congress, Lying, Performance Enhancing Drugs, Steroids, Capitol Hill, Baseball, Barry Bonds, St. Louis, Roger Clemens, Drugs, Graham Bensinger, Alex Rodriguez, Lie, Mark McGwire, Illegal, Cardinals, Coach, Tony Larussa, Major League Baseball, Sammy Sosa, Tony La Russa, Hitting Coach, Albert Pujols, Truth, Entertainment News
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.

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

Posted 10.26.2009 | Technology

Read More: Lsd, Neuroscience, Brain on LSD, Brain Drug Trip, Brain Hallucinogen, Brain, Acid, Brain on Acid, Brain Drugs, Drugs, Hallucinogenics, Neurology, Technology News

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...

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

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 10.26.2009 | Denver

Read More: New Orleans, Inner-City Neighborhoods, Five Points, Poverty, Latino, Drugs, Black, Highland, Denver, African American Culture, Gentrification, Denver News
Wayne Trujillo

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

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Scott Weiland's Ex Details Their Heroin Use

nypost.com | Posted 10.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Scott Weiland, Drugs, Stone Temple Pilots, Mary Forsberg, Entertainment News

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...

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David Cross: I Snorted Cocaine 40 Feet From Obama

popeater.com | Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: David Cross Cocaine, Drugs, David Cross Obama, Obama, White House Correspondents Dinner, David Cross, David Cross Coke, David Cross Drugs, Entertainment News

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...

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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

Read More: John Haig Marshall, Friend, John Marshall, Shave, Rape, Redondo Beach, Crime, Drugged, Redondo Beach Cop, Drugs, Redondo Beach Cops, Marshall, Shaved, Los Angeles News

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...

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Amy Winehouse's Dad: Rehab A Waste

AP | Posted 10.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mitch Winehouse, Drugs, Amy Winehouse, Rehab, Entertainment News

LONDON — Amy Winehouse's father says Britain is wasting money on drug addicts who are too quick to say "yes, yes, yes" to rehab. Mitch Winehous...

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

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 10.19.2009 | Denver

Read More: Five Points, Morrison Road, Denver Neighborhoods, Bob Herbert, New York Times, Drugs, Westword, Gangs, Inner City Neighborhoods, Lohi, Highland, Denver News
Wayne Trujillo

Once destitute, dilapidated and shunned, speculators and trendsetters now serenade the Five Points or LoHi neighborhoods, singing their praises to the tune of million dollar residences.

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Selebi Trial: SA Police Chief Jackie Selebi Accused Of Accepting Designer Clothes In Drug Smuggling Scheme

New York Times | BARRY BEARAK | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Jackie Selebi, Hugo Boss, Crime, Pravin Gordham, African National Congress, Drugs, Louis Vuitton, Johannesburg, South African Communist Party, Murder, South Africa, Interpol, Anc, Harrods, Glenn Agliotti, Etienne Aigner, Canali, Drug Smuggler, Haroon Bhorat, Blade Nzimande, Selebi Trial, Home News

JOHANNESBURG -- The drug trafficker and the police commissioner were once nattily attired pals, or so the allegations go. The two men would shop toget...

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Larry Birkhead: Anna Nicole Took Drugs, Had Seizures, Took Methadone While Pregnant

AP | LINDA DEUTSCH | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment

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LOS ANGELES — The father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter testified Friday the ex-Playmate "took more medications than I've ever seen anyone take...

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Drug-Linked Karzai Brother Helps U.S. Intelligence

Jeff Stein | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Corruption, Politics, House Intelligence Committee, Drugs, Heroin, Afghanistan War, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Mike Rogers, World News
Jeff Stein

A key member of the House Intelligence Committee says the controversial brother of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai regularly helps U.S. intelligence, but should not be considered a spy.

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Is Relapse Part Of Recovery?

Carole Bennett, MA | Posted 10.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Alcoholic, Drugs, Recovery, Substance Abuse, Addiction & Recovery, Drug Addict, Alcoholism, Living News
Carole Bennett, MA

Relapse is common when the alcoholic/addict has not had enough recovery under their belt through 12-step meetings, sponsorship, counseling or their own personal determination to rely on an arsenal of "tools" to ward off the relapse demon.

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Anna Nicole Repeatedly Injected With Drugs: Bodyguard

AP | LINDA DEUTSCH | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Big Mo, Drugs, Anna Nicole Smith Drugs, Anna Nicole Smith, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — An anguished bodyguard, saying he had to tell what he knew about Anna Nicole Smith's death "or I'm going to die," testified Wednes...

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Drug Addiction On The Rise In Gaza

Reuters | Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ivan Karakashian | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: War Trauma, Gazan Drug Abuse, Tramadol Addiction, Gaza, Israeli Blockade, Tranquilizers, Painkillers, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza Drug Addiction, Gaza Drug Laws, Addiction, Drugs, Palestinians, Blockade, Drugs in Gaza, Israel, Gaza Strip, Gaza Drugs, World News

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinians struggling to cope with the Israeli blockade of Gaza and the trauma of war are turning to painkillers and tran...

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Police: Man Found Asleep In Closet With A Dead Man

AP | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Texas, Dead Body, Houston, Crime, Corpse, Closet, Abuse of Corpse, Drugs, Home News

HOUSTON — A Houston man found asleep with a corpse inside a closet of a vacant home has been charged with misdemeanor drug offenses, authorities...

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Pot Legalization Gains Momentum In California

AP | MARCUS WOHLSEN | Posted 10.07.2009 | Home

Read More: California Pot Legalization, Marijuana, Drugs, Pot, Pot Legalization, Drug Laws, California, Home News

SAN FRANCISCO — Marijuana advocates are gathering signatures to get as many as three pot-legalization measures on the ballot in 2010 in Californ...

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The Evolution of Colombia's Narco-Submarines

Maryam Ishani | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: Colombia, Drugs, Narco-Submarines, Colombia Narco-Submarines, Cocaine, Maryam Ishani Huffington Post, Maryam Ishani, Ishani, Colombia Submaines, World News
Maryam Ishani

For over 20 years Captain Mario Rodríguez has worked to counter the steady advancement of the transportation technologies employed by Colombian traffickers to smuggle cocaine into Mexico and the U.S.

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I Took a Break From All The Acid I Have Been Doing

Miles Klee | Posted 11.30.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Friendship, Lsd, Consciousness, Relationships, Experience, Acid, Drugs, Hipsters, Weed, Comedy News
Miles Klee

Today I did something rather bold: I skipped my daily dose of LSD-25. And I've got to tell you, it's kind of blowing my mind!

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TV: Sex, Guns, and Frito-Lays

Michelle Howard | Posted 11.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Sex, Violence, Drugs, Teen Sex, Tv, Obesity, Childhood Obesity, TV Advertising, Teenagers, Teenage Tv Consumption, Television, Unhealthy Lifestyle, Kids and Guns, Guns, Living News
Michelle Howard

I’m not going to tell you to kill your television. I’m a pacifist. But how about a little habit changing? Just push that little button on your remote that says “off.”

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More Than Half Million Kids React Badly To Drugs

AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 11.28.2009 | Living

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