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Bill to Cut Penalties for Crack Cocaine Heads to Obama
Mandatory-minimum prison sentences for crack-cocaine would only kick in when defendants possess 28 grams or more of the drug under legislation passed last week by the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Colo. Set to Regulate Medical Marijuana from 'Seed to Sale'
The head of Colorado's medical-marijuana enforcement effort promises a comprehensive plan that other states could adopt as a model.
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Washington Imposes New Rules on Prescribing Powerful Painkillers
The state of Washington plans to impose tough new rules on doctors who want to prescribe opiate painkillers to patients, including mandatory third-party evaluation of patients who request higher doses of the drug but don’t show signs of improvement.
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Conn. Candidates Spar on Marijuana Use, Legalization
Republican candidates for Congress are slinging accusations of hypocrisy over marijuana use and policy, including the spectacle of a candidate who favors legalization defending a YouTube video focused on his opponent’s arrest a decade earlier for marijuana possession.
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Doctors Not Reporting Impaired Colleagues, Survey Finds
A study from the Harvard Medical School found that 17 percent of doctors knew of drunk, addicted or otherwise incompetent colleagues, but one-third said they did nothing to report the behavior.
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Police Challenged by Crashes Involving Prescription Drugs
Car crashes involving prescription drugs are often harder to detect and prosecute than those involving alcohol or illicit drugs.
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Proposed FDA Plan on Prescription Drugs Rejected
A lack of mandated training for physicians has helped sink a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposal intended to curb misuse of prescription drugs.
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Veterans Dept. Allows Use of Medical Marijuana
Veterans in states with medical-marijuana laws will be allowed to use the drug without losing their access to pain medication under a new policy announced by the federal Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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Oakland OKs Plan for Four Big Marijuana Farms to Supply Medical Users
Seeking greater control over who supplies marijuana to legal medical users, the city of Oakland has approved a plan that would license four large marijuana farms and sets hefty regulatory fees on the operations.
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Parents Who Use Drugs to Quell Children Called Abusive
Sedating children with over-the-counter or prescription medications may be an under-recognized form of abuse.
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Heroin Addicts in Africa Engage in Dangerous Blood-Sharing
'Flashblooding,' the act of injecting one heroin addict's blood into another to share a high or ward off withdrawal, is becoming increasingly common in some African cities.
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N.M. Faces Medical Marijuana Shortage
Strict licensing and regulation of New Mexico’s medical-marijuana distribution has led to chronic shortages in supply of the drug.
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SAMHSA Document on Confidentiality Regulations Raises Further Questions
With national health reform moving the field toward coordination of all aspects of an individual’s medical care, longstanding federal requirements that govern information about clients in addiction treatment have come under scrutiny over their potential effect on integrated care.
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Treatment Programs Report Surge in Prescription Drug Admissions
About one in 10 people admitted to addiction treatment programs misuse prescription drugs, quadruple the rate reported in 1998.
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Group Drug Therapy Can Be Counterproductive for Teens
Group addiction treatment can actually lead to more drug use by teens if they are casual users placed in sessions with more experienced addicts.
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The Anti-Bars: Token Clubs
People in recovery often face a social dilemma: where to hang out when bars and clubs must remain off-limits. For many, so-called Token Clubs provide an answer -- and a safe haven.
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Patented Pot? Not So Fast, Say Feds
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has removed a trademark category for medical marijuana after receiving a flood of applications from producers seeking to claim various products and brand names for the drug.
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Dangers on Homefront Exceed Battlefield for Some Soldiers
Soldiers of the First Armored Division’s Fourth Brigade are statistically at higher risk of death upon returning to their home base of Fort Bliss, Texas, than they were while deployed in Iraq.
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New Recipe Feeds Growth of Okla. Meth Labs
Restrictions on precursor chemicals helped drive methamphetamine labs out of Oklahoma in the mid-2000s, but a new “one-pot” recipe for the drug has labs proliferating in the state again.
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'MicroRNA' Could Someday Be Used to Battle Cocaine Addiction
A new animal study from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) finds that small molecules called microRNA seem to play a role in regulating cocaine use, a discovery that eventually could lead to the development of novel new addiction treatments.
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Tech and Drugs and Rock and Roll
Websites are marketing music that developers claim can produce a drug-like high.
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Mixed Results for H.S. Drug Testing
High-school students who face mandatory drug testing may be less likely to use drugs in the short term, but the protective effect doesn’t last, according to a new U.S. Department of Education study.
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Hospitals Vie to Become Medical-Marijuana Dispensaries in N.J.
Teaching hospitals in New Jersey say they should hold a monopoly over marijuana distribution as the state plans to implement its medical-marijuana law.
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Legalization Could Cut Marijuana Prices 80 Percent, RAND Estimates
A study on the expected impact of marijuana legalization in California predicts that the price of the drug would drop steeply.
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Addiction, Mental Illness Lead to Millions of ER Visits
Patients with addiction or mental-health related problems accounted for 12.5 percent of all hospital emergency-room visits by adults in 2007, according to a report from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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Medical News Today
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No Safe Level First Study To Show Teenage Binge Drinkers Harm Abilities In Later Life
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Academics at Northumbria University have demonstrated a link between teenage binge drinking and damage to prospective memory. Prospective memory is an important aspect of day-to-day memory function and is defined as the cognitive ability to remember to carry out an activity at some future point in time...
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2 Programmes Focus On Addiction Awareness And Control
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) the study designed the two programmes and examined their effectiveness in helping excessive drinkers reduce their drinking. The AACTP and LEAP programmes address the challenges faced by excessive drinkers, including a preoccupation with drinking made worse by alcohol-related stimuli around them...
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Drinkaware Response To Plans By The Government To Crack Down On Binge Drinking Hotspots, UK
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Responding to the plan by the Government to crack down on binge drinking hotspots and give communities more influence over licensing applications, Chris Sorek, Chief Executive of alcohol awareness charity Drinkaware, says: "Alcohol misuse costs society £25 billion a year* and it is imperative our culture's binge drinking problem is tackled head on...
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Texas Raises Organ Donor Registry; D.C. Not Ready For Medical Marijuana Sales; L.A. Health Department Facing Major Service Cuts
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 PDT
The Houston Chronicle: "Though Texas has the nation's lowest percentage of registered organ and tissue donors, several recent initiatives have more than doubled the state's donor rolls this year. The number enrolled in the Glenda Dawson Donate Life Texas Registry has ballooned since Jan...
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Severity Reduced By Alcohol
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:00:00 PDT
Drinking alcohol may reduce the severity of rheumatoid arthritis according to new research justg published. It is the first time that this effect has been shown in humans. The study also finds that alcohol consumption reduces the risk of developing the disease, confirming the results of previous studies...
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