Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks on Addiction, Botox and the Burying of Hatchets …

Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks on addiction, Botox and the burying of hatchets …

Filed under: effects of cocaine on society

The band's cocaine habit led to Nicks becoming addicted to the drug for 10 years. Then, in 1986, after being prescribed the sedative clonazepam to wean her off it, she became addicted to that. Nicks says that its effects were even more ruinous. Her … Read more on Telegraph.co.uk

Peru drug mules: Melissa Reid 'to plead guilty in tactical move'

Filed under: effects of cocaine on society

MIss Reid, 20, from Glasgow, was stopped along with Michaella McCollum, 20, from Dungannon, Co Tyrone, with 24lb (11kg) of cocaine hidden in food packets in their luggage while trying to board a flight to Spain last month. Reid and McCollum have so far … Read more on Telegraph.co.uk

Colombia to pay Ecuador million to settle coca herbicide suit

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Alberto Molina, a former Ecuadorean army officer now working as a security consultant in Quito, said the two governments should continue to assess the effect on his country of Colombia's drug war and five decades of civil conflict, including the … Read more on Los Angeles Times