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Pennsylvania School Employee Was ‘Major Drug Trafficker’
GREENSBURG, Pa. — State police say the man who headed the maintenance department at a school district was also a “major drug trafficker” who supplied cocaine and heroin to lower-level dealers throughout southwestern Pennsylvania.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/28/police-pennsylvania-school-employee-major-drug-trafficker/
Bath Salts Latest Drug to Sound Alarm
But the little packets of powder, with names like “Ivory Wave” and “Vanilla Sky,” were never intended for the tub, and they’re not among the fragrant samples in the bath and body shop at the local mall. The “bath salts,” are powerful synthetic stimulants, designed to be comparable to cocaine or methamphetamine, and with similar risks, law enforcement and health officials say.
But unlike cocaine or meth, the stimulants are legal in most of the United States, at least for now, selling for about $25 to $40 a packet online and in convenience stores and head shops.
They’ve become the latest designer drug to raise alarms, as enterprising chemists find ways to stay a step ahead of drug laws.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bath-salts-20110128,0,6453748,full.story
Drug Laced Cookies Send Students to Hospital
Broward County Schools spokeswoman Marsy Smith said cookies laced with some sort of substance that may have been marijuana were brought to South Plantation High School Friday, and afterwards two of the students who ate them appeared to be under the influence of something.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/28/2039276/drug-laced-cookies-send-students.html#ixzz1CNSeBx5M
General’s story a warning about use of painkillers
Standing before a packed hall of 700 military doctors and medics here, the deputy commander of the nation’s elite special operations forces warned about an epidemic of chronic pain sweeping through the U.S. military after a decade of continuous war.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2011-01-27-1adruggeneral27_cv_n.htm?csp=obinsite#
Up to 35% of wounded soldiers addicted to drugs
Medical officials estimate that 25% to 35% of about 10,000 ailing soldiers assigned to special wounded-care companies or battalions are addicted or dependent on drugs — particularly prescription narcotic pain relievers, according to an Army inspector general’s report made public Tuesday.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2011-01-26-soldieraddicts26_ST_N.htm
