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Ivory Wave User Thought He Could Fly
A DAD who plunged 300ft to his death after taking the terrifying new legal high Ivory Wave was pretending he could FLY minutes before he fell.
Ivory Wave is labelled as “soothing” bath salts – but is more dangerous than banned Meow Meow, a high once sold legally as “plant food”.
ER Visits for Synthetic Marijuana on the Rise
An herb-and-chemical compound sold legally in the U.S. as incense is sending many of those who smoke it to the hospital, Reuters reported July 29.
ODs from Rx drugs soar
New government figures show that the use of prescription narcotics – powerful opium-based painkillers that can be deadly when taken incorrectly – continues to skyrocket. Also, the number of overdose deaths involving painkillers has exploded to the point where fatal overdoses of drugs such as Vicodin, OxyContin and morphine now outnumber those caused by street drugs.
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20100829/LOCAL10/308299921
Wall Street Drug Use: Employees Giving Up Cocaine for Pot and Pills
The credit crisis appears to have sobered up Wall Street in more ways than one.
A review of drug-test data compiled by drug testing firm Sterling Infosystems Inc., shows that cocaine is losing its favor among investment professionals. What drug is their choice? Marijuana.
People often become drug addicts when they get hooked on prescription drugs
Thirty-one of 75 patients hospitalized for opioid detoxification told University physicians they first got hooked on drugs legitimately prescribed for pain. Another 24 began with a friend’s left-over prescription pills or pilfered from a parent’s medicine cabinet. The remaining 20 patients said they got hooked on street drugs.
However, 92 percent of the patients in the study said they eventually bought drugs off the street, primarily heroin, because it is less expensive and more effective than prescriptions.
