Is Heroin Destroying Our Nation's Youth?
Is Heroin Destroying Our Nation's Youth?
Filed under: Symptoms Of Crack Cocaine Users
Investigators say that prescription drug abuse is often a gateway to heroin, and have been encouraging parents to talk to their teens about the risks of heroin use and misusing prescription drugs. Police officials have begun to develop myriad groups … Read more on Guardian Liberty Voice
Love Can Have Surprising Effects on Our Brains
Love can have surprising effects on our brains
Filed under: Crack Cocaine’s Effects On The Brain
Brain scans have shown that becoming “we” instead of “I” affects the brain powerfully, especially with long-term couples. The “reward centers” glow in the brains of new lovers, cocaine users, and old, happily married couples, but only the latter group … Read more on Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Adderall: A poor man's cocaine
Filed under: Crack Cocaine’s Effects On The Brain
UM School of Medicine Researchers Find Association Between Stroke and …
UM School of Medicine Researchers Find Association Between Stroke and …
Filed under: history of cocaine use
They compared the stroke patients to a control group of 1,154 people, interviewing both groups about stroke risk factors and illicit drug use. In the stroke group, 28 percent reported a history of cocaine use compared to 26 percent in the control group … Read more on UMB News
Chronicle Book Review: Meth Mania
Filed under: history of cocaine use
Cocaine Associated With Increased Risk of Stroke Within 24 Hours of Last High
Cocaine Associated With Increased Risk Of Stroke Within 24 Hours Of Last High
Filed under: cocaine side effect
Cocaine users who make it 24 hours past their last high without incident should consider themselves relatively lucky. Among its other after-effects, the addictive drug is associated with a sevenfold increase in the chance of stroke, according to a new … Read more on University Herald
Nightline anchor admits cocaine and ecstasy use caused Good Morning …
Filed under: cocaine side effect
If the Government Agreed to Make One Recreational Drug Legal, Which Do You Think They Should Go With?
Question by Seafoodlover: If the government agreed to make one recreational drug legal, which do you think they should go with?
a) Crack/Cocaine
b) Heroin
c) Meth
d) Marijuana
e) Ectasy
f) Other
Traffic Stop Yields Two Arrests on Drug, Battery Charges
Traffic stop yields two arrests on drug, battery charges
Filed under: Signs Of Crack Cocaine User
A Gainesville Police Department officer said she pulled over Regina Symonette, 24, of 3101 NE 15th St., Apt. F48, for running a stop sign and failing to maintain a single lane near 20 NE Waldo Road at 11:45 p.m.. As the officer approached the … Read more on Gainesville Sun
CVS stores to stop selling tobacco products
Filed under: Signs Of Crack Cocaine User
Senators Take Major Step Toward Ending Drug War
Senators Take Major Step Toward Ending Drug War
Filed under: Faces Of Crack Cocaine Users
And it would allow thousands of current inmates to return to court to seek fairer sentences in accordance with the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, a measure that reduced the vast sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine crimes. The bill … Read more on Huffington Post
Ending violence calls for drastic measures
Filed under: Faces Of Crack Cocaine Users
Cops Get Drugs in Traffic Stops
Cops get drugs in traffic stops
Filed under: Signs Of Crack Cocaine User
About 5:45 p.m. an officer pulled over a car at Elm Road and Gypsy Lane for running a stop sign. The officer … Inside the car the officer found two crack pipes and a rock of crack cocaine. … The officer found a crack pipe in the driver's side door … Read more on Youngstown Vindicator
Heroin dealer gets 40 years after failing treatment program
Filed under: Signs Of Crack Cocaine User
Winslow Police 'crack' Cocaine Sales; Arrest Camden Woman Employed by City as …
Winslow police 'crack' cocaine sales; arrest Camden woman employed by city as …
Filed under: crack cocaine user
In wrapping up a month-long probe into crack cocaine sales here, police discovered one of their suspects was not only employed by the City of Camden, but was also in training to become a 911 dispatcher. Winslow police narcotics detectives arrested … Read more on NJ.com
Cops: Drug, Prostitution Ring Operated Near Merrillville HS
Filed under: crack cocaine user
President Obama Sends Powerful Message on Draconian Drug Sentencing
President Obama Sends Powerful Message on Draconian Drug Sentencing
Filed under: crack cocaine laws
Their actions wiped out much of the horrid disparity in the blatantly racially tinged sentences slapped on crack cocaine users. The drug … Now Congress should do what Obama has called for and once and for all end the insanity in the drug sentencing laws. Read more on City Watch
Loss of Central America's Northern Triangle
Filed under: crack cocaine laws