“Two Burger King customers discovered hydrocodone pills in their sandwiches on February 10, 2010, leading to the arrest of two of the fast-food restaurant employees on Saturday” https://www.newyorkinjurynews.com/2010/02/20/Hydrocodone-pills-found-in-customers-Burger-King-sandwiches-2-men-arrested_201002202537.html
“Exposure to ecstasy or cocaine during adolescence increases the “reinforcing effects” that make people vulnerable to developing an addiction. This is the main conclusion of a research team from the University of Valencia (UV), which has shown for the first time how these changes persist into adulthood.” “Although MDMA and cocaine are psychoactive substances frequently … Read more
“The so-called “club drug” ecstasy is more likely than other stimulants like speed or crystal meth to kill young, healthy people who are not known as regular drug users, British researchers said on Friday.” A study of stimulant-deaths in Britain between 1997 and 2007 found that those who died after taking ecstasy were mainly younger … Read more
“To Colorado’s already-vexing cannabis conundrum, add yet another riddle: Are medical-marijuana patients protected from discipline under their employers‘ anti-drug policies?” Read more: https://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14261008#ixzz0dpzK6QUD
“But around the country today, hundreds – perhaps thousands – of high schoolers are bringing the pot to school, and they’re doing it legally. Not to get stoned but as part of prescribed medical treatment. And they don’t have to tell the school authorities about it.” https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0123/Marijuana-in-the-classroom-Sometimes-it-s-legal
“Sheriff Tom Allman says he has found a way to keep kids off methamphetamine. If they could see what they’d look like after using the highly addictive drug, it might get them to stay away from it forever. With help from some image-altering software, Allman is out to show teens the face of meth.” https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122872005&ps=cprs
“At a modern factory in a city whose main claim to fame is an image of the Virgin Mary revered for granting miracles, Mexican pharmaceuticals firm Grupo Collins churns out antibiotics and other medicines.” https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60L0X120100122
A clue to explain how cocaine becomes addictive has emerged and may lead to new ways to treat the addiction. Research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse shows that an epigenetic mechanism in the brain helps explain cocaine’s addictiveness. Epigenetics is a hot, new branch of science that focuses on changes to gene … Read more