Ryan O'Neal Pleads Guilty To Meth Charge
LOS ANGELES — Ryan O'Neal has pleaded guilty to a felony drug charge. He entered the plea in a Malibu courtroom Friday morning and was ordered ...
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Ohmigod! Drinkers Think Better for Longer! Hide This From Children and Adults!
Stanton Peele | Posted 01.08.2009 | Living
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How much is less than 1-2 drinks? Maybe put a touch of alcohol on your tongue every other day with an eye dropper -- no cheating and putting two drops while we're not looking!
The End of Prohibition?
Mary-Charlotte Domandi | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
What are the advantages and disadvantages to legalizing drugs? What would happen to international drug cartels? How would it affect the work of law enforcement?
Alex Haines Talks: Amy Winehouse's Ex Alleges Crack For Breakfast, Sex Mania
News of the World | Posted 12.28.2008 | Entertainment
Alex Haines tells how the singer smoked CRACK for BREAKFAST from pipes she made out of drinks bottles as she blew £3,500 a week on drugs in her darke...
Of No Fixed Address: A Christmas To Remember
Christopher Devine | Posted 12.25.2008 | Chicago
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This is the seventh in a series of excerpts from my book Of No Fixed Address: A Collection of Voices from the Streets of Chicago.
Afghan Drug Trade Assault Hindered By NATO Infighting
NY Times | THOM SHANKER | Posted 12.23.2008 | World
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A drive by the NATO alliance to disrupt Afghanistan's drug trade has been hobbled by new objections from member nations that ...
Harm Reduction and Allan's Diplomatic Faux Pas, on the Final Day of the U.N. Drug Treatment Conference, Vienna
Allan Clear | Posted 12.22.2008 | World
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At last, my final day in Vienna attending the United Nations' "Technical Seminar on Drug Addiction Prevention and Treatment: From Research to Practice" conference.
Vienna U.N. Drug Treatment Meeting Day Two: The Clockwork Orange Brainwashing Day
Allan Clear | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
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Cross posted from from the Stop the Drug War Chronicle Blog (12/18/08) Ah, the Clockwork Orange brainwashing day. (For my preamble, click here. For c...
Day One at the U.N. Drug Treatment Meeting -- Slightly More Interesting Than Predicted
Allan Clear | Posted 12.18.2008 | World
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More than 200 people from around the globe have shown up for the first day of this drug treatment meeting at the United Nations Office on Drugs and ...
Why Should You or Anyone Care About This Week's U.N. Anti-Drug Meeting?
Allan Clear | Posted 12.18.2008 | World
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Are the collected nations going to sign on to yet another tour of duty with the War on Drugs? Or will this new Declaration finally shift the focus of international drug policy towards a human rights, public health-based approach?
Why Harm Reduction Makes Sense: These Three Things I Know are True
Stanton Peele | Posted 12.18.2008 | Living
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How many adult substance abusers abstain? By now, we are inured to the frequent visits to rehab by problem drinking and drug abusing entertainment figures.
Peru Seizes Three Tons Of Cocaine Mixed With Guano
AP | Posted 12.15.2008 | World
LIMA, Peru — Drug agents in Peru say they have seized 3 tons of cocaine mixed into a shipment of guano bound for Spain. A four-month investigat...
On Healthcare Reform Stimulating the Economy: The Massachusetts Example
Maggie Mahar | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
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Too many proposals for healthcare reform focus solely on universal access and run the risk of sending good money after bad. The question we need to ask is: "Access to what"?
Obama Interviews the Medical Blogosphere on Healthcare Reform
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
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Without further ado, below you have this week's Grand Rounds -- a Q&A session with over 30 bloggers led by the incoming President on how to reform (for the better, we hope) healthcare.
Not Drug Czar -- Ramstad Now Wants to Head Treatment Agency. Just Say No!
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
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Is someone who opposes what the science says is the best treatment for heroin addiction really someone we want in charge of the agency which is supposed to help disseminate evidence-based care?
Obama's Smoking Drama
Tony Newman | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics
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Thankfully, we don't arrest cigarette smokers who relapse.
Chicago Suburb Begins Gentler Pot Laws
Chicago Tribune | Mary Owen | Posted 12.08.2008 | Chicago
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In Chicago Heights, getting caught with an "onion" of pot can get you a ticket. Yes, like a parking ticket. The far south suburb this week became the...
Scientists Endorse "Brain Boost" Drugs: Beginning of End of Drug War?
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 12.08.2008 | Living
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Researchers are arguing that drugs that "boost the brain" should be permitted legal if they are safe and effective. Here's where it gets interesting: many drugs that boost the brain also produce a high.
DeThrone The Drug Czar
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics
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Due to the incredible response to my last post on this issue-- thank you everyone who responded and who forwarded it and who took action-- I was asked...
Obama Drug Czar Pick: No Recovery from War on Drugs?
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
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Obama shouldn't make the mistake that Bill Clinton did and install a drug czar who will ignore science and push dogma.
CIA Shot Down American Missionary Plane, Repeatedly Misled Congress, Report Finds
Washington Post | Joby Warrick | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
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The CIA repeatedly misled Congress and the Justice Department in their investigations of the 2001 shoot-down of a Peruvian plane carrying U.S. mission...
Cocaine Kills Colombian Forests
AP | MEERA SELVA | Posted 11.19.2008 | Green
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LONDON — Does white powder damage your green credentials? Colombia's vice president said Tuesday that Britain's middle classes, who recycle and...
Oak Park Sees Increase In Drug Use
Oak Leaves | John P. Huston | Posted 11.19.2008 | Chicago
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Oak Park officials are privately on high alert as drug use increases, threatening to allow gang influences to break through the village's borders. Wi...
'LA's Dopest Attorney': Harvard Law Grad Specializes In Marijuana Charges
Buzzfeed | Peggy Wang | Posted 11.19.2008 | Style
Allison Margolin has marketed herself as the lawyer who will get you off on your marijuana charges. Unfortunately, she seems so cool that you'd proba...
Heather Locklear Charged With DUI Of Drugs
AP | Posted 11.17.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors in Santa Barbara have charged Heather Locklear with misdemeanor driving under the influence, citing prescription drugs...
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