FADER 55: Cumbia Feature

Published June 19, 2013

FADER 55: Cumbia Feature

Filed under: Crack Cocaine Side Effects Drug Addiction

1960s brown-power Amazonian bands like Los Mirlos from Peru swapped the lead accordion for ayahuasca-friendly swamp guitars and effects pedals, renaming the sound chicha after the local firewater. A climb of the Andes around the same time would find … Read more on The FADER

Reports show opiate abuse remains problem for Massachusetts

Filed under: Crack Cocaine Side Effects Drug Addiction

According to a 2011 report by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the greater Boston metro area had the highest rate of emergency room visits involving illicit drugs (571 per 100,000 population) among the nation's 11 … Read more on Fall River Herald News

Fostering family: Programs support babies born with alcohol, drug exposure

Filed under: Crack Cocaine Side Effects Drug Addiction

The Allens adopted MacKenzie, an energetic but quiet girl who suffers the effects of fetal alcohol exposure. … The National Center of Substance Abuse and Child Welfare estimates 400,000 to 440,000 babies — about 10 percent of all births — born each … Read more on Lincoln Journal Star