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WADA Calls NHL Doping Test Meaningless

The NHL is trying to fool the public with a flawed anti-doping program, the chairman of the World Anti-Doping agency said Tuesday. Complete Story

Drugs Found in Home Depot Store Cabinets

For the fifth time in a week, a stash of drugs was found in a cabinet at a Home Depot store in Massachusetts or discovered after the fixture was brought home.

New Diabetes Drugs Give Double Punch

Two experimental pills seem to help older diabetes drugs lower patients' blood sugar, with the added bonus of a little weight loss.

FDA to Require Drug Tracking

Drugs will have to be tracked every time they change hands from the factory to the pharmacy under provisions of an 18-year-old law the government is just now ready to enforce.

FDA Halts Unapproved Antihistamines

Manufacturers of cold, cough and allergy medicines that contain the antihistamine carbinoxamine and have not been approved have been given 30 to 90 days to stop making the products.

ACLU Sues Alaska Over State's 'Pot' Law

The American Civil Liberties Union sued the state of Alaska on Monday over a new law that would restore criminal penalties for marijuana possession.

Drugs Hold Promise in Kidney Cancer Fight

For decades, it has been one of cancer's great mysteries: Why do about 4 percent of kidney tumors spontaneously disappear?

3 Sentenced in Weapons-For-Drugs Case

A former Danish parliament member was among three men sentenced Wednesday to prison for their roles in a weapons-for-cocaine plot involving Colombian terrorists, prosecutors said.

Generic Biotech Drug OK Rekindles Debate

The approval of the generic form of a biotechnology drug rekindled fierce debate within the pharmaceutical industry and Washington over how federal regulators should handle similar applications as patents expire on billions of dollars worth of drugs.

Drug Makers Delay Generics Hitting Market

The marketers of the world's second-largest selling drug dodged a major threat to their revenues two months ago by reaching a deal to keep a generic competitor at bay until at least 2011.

Study: ADHD Drugs Send Thousands to ERs

Accidental overdoses and side effects from attention deficit drugs likely send thousands of children and adults to emergency rooms, according to the first national estimates of the problem.

Cancer Risks Detailed for Arthritis Drugs

Rheumatoid arthritis patients taking Humira or Remicade face triple the risk of developing several kinds of cancer and double the risk of getting serious infections, a study led by the Mayo Clinic found.

Medicare Recipients Rush to Beat Deadline

Tens of thousands of procrastinating seniors kept Medicare's operators busy Monday during the final hours of enrollment for the government's new drug benefit.

Movement Against Medicare Penalty Grows

A pivotal Republican is joining the congressional drive to eliminate the financial penalty for people who miss Monday's deadline for enrolling in the Medicare drug benefit, the latest sign of a growing rebellion against President Bush on the issue.

Collaborator of Mexico Drug Lord Sentenced

An alleged cohort of imprisoned drug lord Osiel Cardenas was sentenced Thursday to 44 years in prison on drug-related charges, authorities said.

Bush Leads Charge for Medicare Drug Plan

About 37 million people on Medicare have prescription drug coverage but six million other eligible participants haven't yet signed up, the Bush administration said Wednesday as the enrollment deadline neared.

Government Makes Final Medicare Plan Push

The government has added 6,000 operators, quadrupled its computer capacity for enrollment and will assist with more than 1,000 events in the week ahead as part of a final push for signing people up for the Medicare drug benefit.

A Closer Look: Ambien and Phenergan

Details about the two prescription drugs, Ambien and Phenergan, that Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., said he took before crashing his car into a barrier near the Capitol early Thursday.

Cannabis Painted on High Street House Must Go

A man who spray-painted large cannabis leaves on his house has agreed to remove the bright green paintings as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors.

Mexican President Backs Off Drug Bill

Mexican President Vicente Fox backed off signing a drug decriminalization bill that the United States warned could result in "drug tourism" and increased availability of narcotics in American border communities.

Problems With Medicare Drug Information

Federal investigators posing as senior citizens found that Medicare's operators routinely failed to give callers accurate and complete information about the government's new drug benefit, prompting Democratic critics of the Bush administration program to ask again for an extension of an approaching enrollment deadline.

Bush's Fla. Trip to Focus on Drug Plan

President Bush is traveling to Florida next week to remind seniors to sign up for the Medicare prescription drug program before the May 15 deadline.

Antipsychotic Drug Use Among Kids Soars

The number of children taking antipsychotic medicines soared 73 percent in the four years ending in 2005, far outpacing the increase in adults, according to a Medco Health Solutions Inc. report released Tuesday.

Levitra, Viagra Launch New Ad Campaigns

Sex sells, yet the racy ads that introduced erectile dysfunction drugs were more successful at raising public outrage than sales.

Mexico's Fox to Sign Bill Legalizing Drugs

Mexican President Vicente Fox will sign into law a measure that decriminalizes the possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs for personal use, his spokesman said Tuesday.

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Coffee May Cut Cirrhosis Risk

Source: forbes.com

Drinking coffee seems to protect alcohol drinkers from liver disease, a new study suggests.

The CIA's Addiction to Drugs

Source: converge.org.nz

Paul Beres: The CIA has often either ignored or become involved in the cultivation and trade of illegal narcotics as a means to achieving its ends. This has caused a dramatic increase in heroin and cocaine production and assisted the forging of highly efficient smuggling networks.

Inside the Afghan drug trade

Source: csmonitor.com

Top Afghan officials privately admit that perhaps 80 percent of the personnel at the Ministry of Interior, Afghanistan's chief law-enforcement agency - from local police chiefs up to the top bureaucrats - may be benefiting from the drug trade.

Parents reward sons good behavior with marijuana

Source: dwb.heraldonline.com

My parents only gave me LSD...

Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States? (PLoS Medicine)

Source: newstarget.com

Tom Cruise is a fool because he speaks of things he knows little about with the authority of someone who knows alot about. Maybe in his little speech on the Today Show, he should have said something more on the lines of this seed. Still, he gets no respect from me.

FDA Combats Counterfeit Drugs

Source: pubs.acs.org

In an effort to crackdown on counterfeit drugs being introduced into the U.S. market, the Food and Drug Administration will require pharmaceutical wholesalers to document the chain of custody as drug products pass through the distribution system.

Cops run scared of Nigerian drug peddlers

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com

"Don't even mention Nigerian drug dealers to me. They are a headache,"said a Narcotics Control Bureau officer when asked about nationals of this oil-rich west African republic who have been in news lately for their involvement in the international drug trade.

Interview: Big Pharma's Deadly Experiments

Source: alternet.org

Sonia Shah's new exposé reveals how drug companies prey on poor people overseas by using them in tests for new -- and often dangerous -- meds.

Poisoned Flowers - Reports by Palaung Women - Drug Abuses in Burma

Press Release “Poisoned Flowers” Palaung Women Reveal Harsh Costs of Failed Drug Policies in Burma

Drug Warriors Push Eye-Eating Fungus

Source: inthesetimes.com

In These Times reports that a bill passed by the House would mandate fighting drugs in Colombia by spraying crops with an 'Eye-Eating Fungus.'

Aurora Ave N

What is up with my neighborhood? Yeah it is two blocks off Aurora but man I have never heard so many cop and fire engine sirens anywhere in my life and I grew up in San Francisco.

The war on drugs is not the War on Terror: save the Afghan poppy fields

Source: timesonline.co.uk

WHAT A DEADLY harvest. As British troops move in to replace Americans in some of the most volatile parts of southern Afghanistan, their valiant battle for democracy is being undermined by their own Government’s confused war on opium.

The HGH Drama Begins...

Source: sports.espn.go.com

Experts doubt Solich's claims about drugging

Source: athensnews.com

The Ohio coach, Frank Solich's claim of being drugged comes under scruity from leading experts.

Israel sends rabbis to 'reform' its tourists

Source: The Times of India

I finally get it. This is why there's a Chabad house here. My city should be included in the list of Israeli hot spots.

10 joints Could Lead to 14 Years for Dealing

Source: guardian.co.uk

Drug users caught with as few as five ecstasy tablets or five grams of cannabis - enough for about 10 joints - will be prosecuted as dealers under regulations drawn up by the Home Office, the Guardian has learned.

Things Every Foreigner Should Know About the U.S.

We outlawed alcohol. Prostitution has always been legal in the U.S. Gambling has always been legal in the U.S.

Fantasy too far

Source: roanoke.com

-- Marion Franklin arrived in Radford with a drug problem and a dream of being a nude model. Bob Shell took her picture. He tied her in bondage. He fell in love. Did he kill her?

Marine's wife paints portrait of US troops out of control

Source: mg.co.za

"There were problems in Kilo company with drugs, alcohol, hazing [violent initiation games], you name it," she said. "I think it's more than possible that these guys were totally tweaked out on speed or something when they shot those civilians in Haditha."

Call to trial heroin on the NHS

Source: news.bbc.co.uk

A recent trial in Germany saw a 40% drop in the number of drug-related deaths, prompting calls for a similar trial in Scotland.

Rahul Mahajan case: Three Nigerians arrested in Delhi

Source: The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Police have arrested three Nigerian nationals from the city following an interrogation of Sahil Zaroo, who allegedly procured drugs for the late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan's son Rahul and his aide Vivek Moitra, and recovered some narcotics from their possession.

India emerging as a big cocaine market

Source: The Times of India

NEW DELHI: The big cocaine seizure aboard S L Voyager, the South African ship, in Mumbai on Saturday reinstates the fact that Columbian drug cartels have found India as one of the rising big markets for cocaine consumption. 200 effing kilograms!

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