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Australia

• Smoking Marijuana Gateway To Alcohol Addiction, Abuse Of Other Drugs
• Twenty-year outcomes in adolescents who self-harm show worrying levels of substance abuse by age 35
• ‘Schizophrenia at its Very Depths’ Drove Mother to Kill Eight Children
• Ambulance call-outs soar over drugs and alcohol incidents
• UN drugs body warns US states and Uruguay over cannabis legalisation
• Victoria’s ice crackdown: Andrews government’s $45m plan to include more rehab, needle programs
• Children admitted to hospital because of alcohol use in NSW
• One in half drivers test positive for drugs in Northern Grampians drug driving crackdown
• Some frequently asked Q’s and A’s about medicinal cannabis
• An inquiry on Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
• A pilot study of an online universal school-based intervention to prevent alcohol and cannabis use in the UK.
• Will the real Drug Policy ‘emphasis’ please stand up!
• Study quantifies direct effect of alcohol misuse on 20-somethings
• Little evidence harm reduction reduces harm
• Divisions along a new road to addiction recovery
• Drug danger in Gold Coast schools
• Marijuana use falling in Australia
• Marijuana use Doubles Risk of Premature Birth
• Australians and Drug Use
• Australia ‘normalises’ drug use
• Quit drinking to cut cancer risk
• Supervised drinking at home can lead to alcohol problems as a teenager
• Shocking Impact of Booze on Babies
• Roadside Drug-testing in Victoria, Australia.
• News media turns young people off illicit drugs
• Cannabis health woes for older users
• Brain dysfunction blamed for drug fix
• Injecting room abuse
• Methadone – Last Not First
• HEROIN is set for comeback on Sydney streets
• Parents encourage youngsters to drink, finds Oz study
• Smoking, drinking and illicit drugs are costing the Australian economy $56 billion a year.
• Worrying side effects attached to mephedrone
• A wave of heroin has hit Victoria, causing the highest statewide death toll by the devastating drug in nearly a decade.
• More than 100 young Australians died after taking the recreational drug ecstasy
• Cannabis takes toll on Aborigines
• Injecting Room Fails
• Tests Driving Drug-Affected Motorists Off the Road
• Call for Brumby to act on big booze stores
• Perpetuating Drug Use – Australia
• Australians’ Support For Regular Use of Cannabis Dropped
• Cannabis use in remote Indigenous communities in Australia: endemic yet neglected
• Drug Crime Costs, Australia
• Pushers turn to mail system to traffick their drugs
• Alarming Increase In Drug-affected Newborns
• Teens in grip of the grog
• Saving Dope Addled Minds.
• Hospitals feel strain of drunks who fight
• Cracking down on Cannabis
• Evidence grows for change in cannabis laws
• The Australian Rising Public Concern on Cannabis
• Letter to The Editor
• Cannabis not harmless as supposed
• Australia first cannabis clinic
• Roadside Drug-testing in Victoria, Australia.
• Almost a quarter of West Australians have used drugs
• Smokers taking 70 minutes a day off work for smokes
• Child resistant lighters sought
• Australia
• International Trends in Drug Abuse
• Top psych lashes cannabis strategy

Canada

• Mom Of Haven Dubois Seeks More Information On Boy’s Death
• Big Bad Liberal Marijuana Muddle
• Editorial: A dopey idea
• Canada: marijuana will be decriminalized by July 2018
• Fact check: Will legalizing pot keep it out of the hands of kids?
• We May Not be Laughing When Recreational Pot is Legalized
• Estimating the harms and costs of cannabis-attributable collisions in the Canadian provinces
• British Columbia Deaths Hit Record High
• Disgraced – The true story of a Canadian doctor
• Jeremy Devine: Harm reduction programs like safe injection sites don’t beat addiction. They just sustain it
• Illicit drug deaths reaches record high 914 in B.C. in 2016
• Opinion: Need to weed out facts about marijuana’s dangers
• Editorial: Don’t pretend pot is harmless
• BUD BUSTERS: Surrey teens take on the tokers at ‘420’ rally in Vancouver
• Vancouver police make arrests at Weeds marijuana store amid regulation debate
• 93+ illegal marijuana dispensaries operating in the City of Vancouver
• Marijuana Grow Houses are Coming to Your Neighbourhood
• Is InSite Really All It’s Cracked Up To Be?
• Substance abuse linked to bipolar suicide risk
• Little evidence harm reduction reduces harm
• Pot Stays Illegal in Canada After Appeal Court Upholds Medical Marijuana Laws
• Effect of a centralized prescription network on inappropriate prescriptions for opioid analgesics and benzodiazepines
• HIV rates much higher among daily needle exchange users
• Cannabis and Road Safety in Canada: Evidence on the Prevalence of
• Ottawa to step up fight against smoking, drugs
• Canadian kids smoke more pot than cigarettes: report
• OTTAWA – PM Stephen Harper set to announce a $64-million anti-drug strategy
• Needle exchange an unmitigated disaster
• Vancouver – City to clean up streets within four months
• Canada to look at drug policies
• Federal anti-drug campaign will educate youth on ‘harms of illicit drug use’
• Plea deal for Canada’s “Prince of Pot” falls apart
• Opposition is not just ‘ideology’
• The Personal and Financial costs of INSITE in Vancouver, Canada
• Time To Get Tough With Skid Road Misfits
• Diacetylmorphine versus Methadone for the Treatment of Opioid Addiction
• Police chief gets credit for treatment centre
• New law puts alcohol and drugs on an equal footing
• Drivers on drugs to face body-fluid tests
• New drug prevention program launched by AADAC and RCMP
• Feds donate $1 million towards drug use prevention program
• Canadian Roadside Survey on Alcohol and Drug Use
• Vancouver Poised to Launch Free Heroin Trial
• Harm Reduction Strategies Equal Dantes Inferno
• Marijuana Becomes Top Crop in Canada
• Health Canada Study Worries Quebec Officials Over Increasing Teen Marijuana Use
• 5 Million Deaths a Year Worldwide from Smoking Tobacco smoke is the world’s most lethal weapon of mass destruction.
• Hemp food products
• HCV & HIV Common in Young Canadian Drug Users
• Many epilepsy and multiple sclerosis patients self-medicate with marijuana
• International Trends in Drug Abuse

Europe

• Legal Highs: Regulation Won’t Work – The Only Answer Lies In Prevention
• Credit Where It Is Due. The Daily Mail Not Mrs May Nailed Drug-Loving Norman Baker
• Legalising marijuana can increase use: French study
• Alcohol, Tobacco And Drug Consumption Rise Over Last Five Years
• These college students lost access to legal pot — and started getting better grades
• Drug Abuse-Associated Mortality Across The Lifespan: A Population-Based Longitudinal Cohort And Co-Relative Analysis.
• THC And CBD In Blood Samples And Seizures In Norway: Does CBD Affect THC-Induced Impairment In Apprehended Subjects?
• A study of cannabis potency in France over
• 36% increase in high-school age drug use in Portugal
• German MPs vote to legalise cannabis for medicinal purposes
• Two-thirds of mental health drug patients used cannabis
• Number of pupils taking cannabis doubles under softer drug laws in Portuguese system
• Drugs-related admissions to hospital have more than tripled in Dundee
• Legal highs that mimic LSD and heroin to be banned
• Coroner highlights methadone link to heart failure after man’s death
• Systematic analytical characterization of new psychoactive substances
• While the US Zigs on Pot, the Netherlands Zags
• Teen Marijuana Use And The Risks Of Psychosis
• More Belgian teens seeking help for cannabis use
• New Report Offers Details on Cocaine Traffic to Europe
• Cannabis and Stroke – Systematic Appraisal of Case Reports
• Methadone programme ‘is a black hole’, says drug misuse professor
• The Connections Between Psychotropic Drugs and Irrational Acts of Violence – What Journalists, Lawyers, Laypersons and Healthcare Providers Need to Know
• Students banned from cannabis coffee shops ‘more likely to pass exams,’ a Dutch study claims
• Cannabis smokers warned they risk poorer exam grades
• New UK political party wants to make cannabis an election issue
• Hungarian Scientists Prove Devastating Effect Cannabis Use Has On The Brain
• Link Between Marijuana Use and Mania
• Legal Dope for Native Americans?
• New Hampshire drug czar: Addiction dragging state’s economy down
• FROM THE CENTRE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
• Note to Nick Clegg: If You Want a Treatment-Led Drug Strategy, Keep It in the Home Office
• Cambridge drugs conference accused of being ‘overwhelmingly’ biased in favour of drug legalisation
• CANNABIS IS WORTH BOTHERING WITH
• ‘I will never get my childhood back’: Four people talk about life with an alcoholic parent
• Sperm size, shape in young men affected by cannabis use
• Moderate weekly alcohol intake linked to poorer sperm quality in healthy young men
• UN drugs body warns US states and Uruguay over cannabis legalisation
• ITV documentary looks into impact of drinking while pregnant on babies and their families
• Holland’s New Marijuana Laws Are Changing Old Amsterdam
• This Is What Your Brain Looks Like After You Smoke Weed
• France plans to stub out e-joints
• Work related drug arrests reflect serious drug problem
• One in 10 cancers in men and one in 33 in women are caused by drinking
• Netherlands and Portugal: young people want to keep pot illegal
• Barcelona orders closure of a third of city’s 145 “cannabis clubs”
• Drug decriminalisation in Portugal
• Cannabis use precedes the onset of psychotic symptoms in young people, study finds
• Believers Consume Fewer Drugs Than Atheists
• Weed Ghettos For Tourists Anger Netherlands Neighbors
• Cannabis use and brain structural alterations of the cingulate cortex in early psychosis.
• Dutch crackdown on high potency marijuana
• Substance abuse linked to bipolar suicide risk
• Portugal -The use of heroin has tripled
• Component analysis of a school-based substance use prevention program in Spain: contributions of problem solving and social skills training content.
• Letter written by a Portuguese doctor to a Journalist from Der Spiegel
• Irish among biggest cocaine users in Europe
• Eastern Europeans ‘prominent’ in drugs scene
• Dutch to classify super strong marijuana alongside heroin
• Portugal – Drug Experiment Not a success at all.
• Can lessons be learned from Portugal’s drug laws?
• A rebuttal of information by John Stossel of Fox News
• Mephedrone users told they are playing Russian roulette
• The Factual Picture of Portuguese Drug Policy
• Dutch marijuana advocates face off with Cabinet
• Drug developed to make people drink less alcohol
• Failure of Portugal’s drug legalisation experiment
• Joint Statement in Opposition to the Vienna Declaration Released July 20, 2010
• Letter – Portugal is hardly a resounding success
• Marijuana Under the Guise of Medicine Contributes to the Rise in Marijuana Use
• Increase in HIV infections in Greece
• Glutamate dehydrogenase as a marker of alcohol dependence.
• Hungary Needs A New Drug Strategy
• Doctors Warn of Rise in Substance Abuse
• 33% of Ex-prisoners’ Drug Deaths Occur Within Week of Release
• Dutch law could unleash cocaine flood in Britain
• Amsterdam bans smoking of marijuana in some public places
• Study: Steroid Use May Fuel Crime
• Alcoholics facing long-term brain damage
• Translating effective web-based self-help for problem drinking into the real world.
• Brief skills training is effective to curb college drinking
• Netherlands from 12th to 5th Place in Europe on Cannabis Usage
• Dutch plan crackdown on cannabis cultivation
• THC Content of Cannabis in Netherlands.
• No to Dail coke tests: minister
• Dutch to ban magic mushrooms
• Methadone link as drug deaths soar
• Let’s not go soft on hard drugs
• Czech pot smokers exhale with relief over new drug law
• Kids who drink with parents ‘develop alcohol problems’
• Teens Who Drink With Parents May Still Develop Alcohol Problems
• Cocaine in half of all schools in Rotterdam
• Scotsman exclusive: Growth industry Scots don’t need
• Dutch plan to shift coffeeshops worries neighbors
• Decriminalization of drugs in Portugal – The real facts!
• A SICKNESS AT THE HEART OF EUROPE
• Highest in Europe – one in ten Scots used cannabis last year
• Alcohol-related deaths
• Ban on magic mushrooms confirmed
• Drink and drug abuse costs Scotland £5billion every year
• Isles drink abuse too widespread to target one group
• French curb on alcohol sales as teenagers discover le binge drinking
• Marijuana exports generate €2bn
• Germany Bans Drug “Spice”
• France to crack down on under-age binge drinking
• Dose of reality fuels new initiatives to help addicts
• Teenagers’ higher cannabis use linked to more nights out
• No relaxation on cannabis laws in New Zealand
• Double price of alcohol, say experts
• Concerns over methadone use.
• Recovery Cafe Culture
• More drug users’ babies in care
• The children who live with drugs
• Ireland: Alcohol recognised as ‘gateway drug’
• DRUG POLICY: Sweden’s success in combating drug use
• Schoolchildren critical of drugs education, says report
• Poor results for addicts from €140m drugs scheme
• Dutch cannabis cafes open to members only
• The Netherlands reviews its tolerant approach to drug policy
• Milan, Italy Enacting Ordinance to Curb Underage Drinking
• Germany Battles Youth Drinking Scourge
• UK declared the cocaine capital of Europe
• Drink and drug abuse costs Scotland £5billion every year
• Scotland’s methadone bill hits £17million
• Scotland’s methadone programme causes concern
• The Scottish Government’s definition
• International Narcotics Control Board Report
• Raid strips party island of ecstasy
• Dutch Politicians Seek Marijuana Rules
• Aboard the Mississippi Boat
• Cocaine and ecstasy use rife in EU
• Cannabis lobby rises from the ashes
• Press release on Swiss drug policy
• European Union Group Urges Censorship of Pro-Cannabis Web Sites
• Chief of Police in Arnhem,Holland
• Swiss kids satisfy taste for booze and drugs
• Sweden Will Maintain, Develop And Enforce Its Restrictive Drug Policy
• French Teenagers Smoke Joints As Often As They Drink
• The European “Schools Health Education Unit”
• SNIPPETS July 2005
• Dutch Teenagers Get Hooked On Drugs At An Ever Younger Age
• Cannabis link to psychosis
• Amsterdam’s Alcohol-Selling Coffee Shops To Lose Cannabis Privileges.
• 46% of English arrestees tested positive for pot
• Weed is hard drug
• 5 Million Deaths a Year Worldwide from Smoking Tobacco smoke is the world’s most lethal weapon of mass destruction.
• Addicts assisting addicts
• Cannabis doubles the risk of schizophrenia and other psyciatric conditions
• Cannabis more toxic than cigarettes: study
• Drugs Spark Gang Violence in Vancouver
• Drugs: A Hard or Soft Approach?
• A New Drug Threat: Salvia – by Mike Bush
• What influences young people to take drugs?
• Sweden – Swedish Drug Policy in General
• Italy
• Spain
• Italy approves new marijuana law
• Methadone to be dumped in Scotland as treatment for heroin addiction

New Zealand

• Synthetic cannabis linked to eighth New Zealand death
• Drinking alcohol while pregnant harms kids for generations – study
• Cannabis Use 2012/13: New Zealand Health Survey
• Ecstasy is a dangerous drug and should remain illegal
• U-Turn as New Zealand passes law to remove all Psychoactive drugs from market
• Legal blood alcohol limit to drop in New Zealand
• Free-for-all of the backyard chemists is over
• Synthetic cannabis ‘ruined my life’
• Marijuana Use Tied to Cancer Rates Among Maoris
• Cannabis linked to lung cancer risk
• New Zealand: Smoking Cannabis Is Bad For Your Gums, Says Study
• Drugs drive crime: New Zealand
• Research
• Prevalence and correlates of cannabis use and dependence in young New Zealanders
• Child resistant lighters sought

Others

• China announces scheduling controls on two fentanyl precursor chemicals
• Target The ‘Ganja Babies’ – Urgent Focus Needed On Children Using The Weed As They Face Increased Mental Health Risks
• The Bad Science Of Medical Cannabis
• Smoking super-strength cannabis or ‘spice’ may trigger deadly seizures, claims new research
• “Trial of the Plant”
• Who is watching the children?
• Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening
• Under the Influence: Jamaicans Driving High
• Ayurvedic chemist selling ‘afeem’ meds raided in Pb
• In a first for Latin America, Uruguay rolls out program legalizing marijuana
• Impact of Cannabis on the Neurocognitive Performance of Jamaican Adolescents
• U.S. and Chinese Drug Enforcement Agencies Meet on Synthetic Opioid Efforts
• Marijuana Use Around the World
• Drug abuse escalates ‘alarmingly’ in Tanzania
• Colorado’s Legalization of Marijuana and the Impact on Public Policy: A Practical Guide for Law Enforcement
• Study finds 2 million students need rehab
• Obama’s Jamaican Fantasy
• Spice – the synthetic drug gaining a grip on Russia
• Russia’s Anti-Drugs Body Set for Chop Amid Narcotics Epidemic
• North Korea: China’s Largest Drug Dealer?
• Prescription Drugs ‘Orphan’ Children In Eastern Kentucky
• Paraguay replaces drugs with recreation
• Crimea side-effect: Addicts deprived of methadone
• Israeli pharmacists: Cannabis can cause side-effects, even death
• China leading the way on global drug fight
• The Pitfalls of Legalization?
• China Becoming Significant Source of Synthetic Drug Production
• Study of the global dependence upon illicit drugs
• Uruguay and Marijuana legalization: a new Tupamaros strategy ?
• Drug dealers shift focus on meth, heroin
• Putin signs law on drug tests for students
• Drug prevention programs need more attention
• Ecuador student’s death highlights school drugs problem
• Somalis urge government to ban khat
• Thai slum under close scrutiny
• Brazil: Drug dealers say no to crack in Rio
• One drug connection that everyone ignores
• ‘We would end up with a problem of a similar scale to the one that we have with alcohol’
• UN narcotics panel emphasizes treatment for illicit drug users
• Drug Legalisation: An Evaluation of the Impacts on Global Society
• Mexican drug cartels ‘operating in the UK, France and Netherlands’
• Mexico looks to legalisation as drug war murders hit 28,000
• Harm Reduction: More than just side effects!
• The Mexican Drug War
• Illegal drug usage in older people reduces quality of life
• Clear- Cut Policy Needed To Help Rehabilitated Drug Addicts, Says Lam Thye
• Hawaii kills medical marijuana dispensary measure
• Vietnam aims to minimize drug addiction
• More drug de-addiction centres mooted across India
• Self-Esteem and Trait Anxiety in Relation to Drug Misuse in Kuwait
• New drug users less likely to share needles, have HIV, in Russian study
• Drug Possession Decriminalized in Mexico
• Extreme Violence Continues in Mexico
• Mexico decriminalizes small-scale drug possession
• GHS Blows the Whistle Over High Tobacco-Related Deaths
• The Jornal da Tarde exposes new formulas for the drug traffickers
• Counselling centres against drug abuse to come up in Delhi
• Daily Guide Ghana – Kwaadee Smokes Wee ….Says Mother
• Bolivia halts US anti-drugs work
• How to Lie with Statistics
• Top Mexico cops charged with favoring drug cartel
• Stopping random drug testing is a human rights violation – Sotto
• Zero tolerance against drugs
• Internet a growing tool for drug trafficking
• Declaration of the World Mayor’s Conference on Drugs
• NCB Sweeps 10 Perpetrators Off The Streets
• Danger zone – Young people and addiction in India
• Wallabies damaging crops in Tasmania poppy fields after getting high
• HIV in US–Mexico Border May Change the HIV Epidemic in Mexico
• Drinkers, Smokers Less Likely to Survive Cancer
• Russia Tough On ‘Weed’ Ware
• 96% Of Sweden Population Supports Restrictive Drug Policy
• Ministry of Health Warns of Strychnine Found in Dutch Ecstasy
• Italy toughens drug laws
• Afghanistan’s Poppy Cultivation Filling the Coffers of Terrorists
• Body Shop’s hemp line
• 5 Million Deaths a Year Worldwide from Smoking Tobacco smoke is the world’s most lethal weapon of mass destruction.
• Genetic anomalies tied with marijuana—activated brain chemicals appear linked to schizophrenia, Japanese researchers report.
• Cannabis Poisoning
• JT to launch new brands
• Drugs Spark Gang Violence in Vancouver
• Cigarettes Contribute to Early Cardiac Deaths Worldwide
• A New Drug Threat: Salvia – by Mike Bush
• At the Cinema – Smoking in cinemas increasing, in contrast to real smoking rates
• The Swedish addiction epidemic in global perspective – ABSTRACT
• Japan
• International Trends in Drug Abuse
• News from abroad and the armed forces

USA

• How The Epidemic Of Drug Overdose Deaths Ripples Across America
• Drug Laws: Why Do We Have Them, And Do They Work?
• Florida’s Biggest Law Firms Tap New Gold Mine: State’s Proposed Medical-Weed Industry
• Zohydro Backlash
• Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Report 2015
• Report: Marijuana Increases The Risk Of Deadly Crashes
• Money Spent On Marijuana Legalisation Referendums
• Marijuana-Growing Spikes Denver Electric Demand, Challenges Clean-Power Plan
• Kennedy: Are We Ready For Big Tobacco-Style Marketing For Marijuana?
• National Families Of Action States Marijuana Policy
• Colorado Has Highest Marijuana Use Among Teens, Adults
• Kathy Gyngell: Crime Rates Soar Where We Fail To Enforce Laws Against Drugs
• Colorado Yields To Marijuana Industry Pressure On Pesticides
• Colorado politicians ignore major pot problems
• America’s Opioid Crisis Behind ‘Shocking’ Two-Year Drop In Life Expectancy
• Can We Please Stop Pretending Marijuana Is Harmless?
• Authorities In Erie Dealing With Spike In K2 Overdoses
• 24 Mind-Blowing Facts About Marijuana Production in America
• SAM Applauds Bi-Partisan Legislation for Legitimate Medical Marijuana Research
• Washington’s Pot Industry Isn’t As Green As You’d Think
• A Horrifying Statistic That Conveys The Sheer Scale Of The US Opioid Crisis
• Cannabis Use and Risk of Prescription Opioid Use Disorder in the United States
• Tracking the Money That’s Legalizing Marijuana and Why It Matters
• Maine’s marijuana social clubs likely to be no-smoking venues
• Top 10 Anti-Marijuana Legalization Policy Victories Of 2015
• The Opioid Crisis Should Make Libertarians Rethink the Drug Legalization Argument
• The Unintended Consequences of Colorado’s “Social Experiment”
• Risk of Selected Birth Defects with Prenatal Illicit Drug Use, Hawaii, 1986–2002
• New Opioid Tool Kit introduced to address U.S. Drug Epidemic
• The Cole Memo: 4 Years Later Status Report on State Compliance of Federal Marijuana Enforcement Policy
• Marijuana devastated Colorado, don’t legalize it nationally
• Coalitions in Action: ASAP Coalition Uses “Smash” Creativity to Engage with Youth
• An Interview with Kevin Sabet, USA’s Most Influential Critic of Marijuana Legalization
• Economy Needs Workers, but Drug Tests Take a Toll
• Legal Weed Isn’t Living Up To All Of Its Promises. We Need To Shut It Down
• Innovative Peer-to-Peer Drug Prevention Initiative Shows Promising Results with High School Students
• Blue Cross Blue Shield Publishes Major Opioid Report
• Marijuana Treats Look Like Familiar Sweets
• Marijuana: What Parents Need to Know Today
• Mass Illnesses Due to Marijuana Edibles, Brownies, Candy
• The Marijuana Policy Initiative: Don’t Commercialize Marijuana.
• 11 Fishers teens hospitalized after eating THC-laced gummy bears
• Cannabis Boosts Risk Of Stroke And Heart Attack, Independent Of Tobacco, New Study Finds
• Marijuana Legalization Has Led To More Use And Addiction While Illegal Market Continues To Thrive
• Variance in Cannabis Use and Gender Affect Size of Important Brain Regions
• The Conundrum of Chronic Pain, Opioid Use in America and the Consequences
• Statement by President of Smart Approaches to Marijuana on Senators Booker and Gillibrand’s Marijuana Legislation to Bypass FDA
• Grey Death compound in Jacksonville & Florida
• Open Letter to : Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge and Secretary of State Mark Martin
• 26 Overdoses in Just Hours: Inside a Community on the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic
• ‘Narco-deforestation’: Cocaine Trade Destroying Swathes of Central America
• It’s time for philanthropic giants to join America’s fight to end the addiction crisis.
• In opioid crisis, a new risk for police: accidental overdose
• Ohio Leads In Nation’s Fatal Drug Overdoses With 4,000 Dead In 2016: Survey
• Emergency Visits Related to Marijuana Use at Colorado Hospital Quadruple
• Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Health
• ‘It’s Just Horrific’: Caseworkers Break Their Silence to Reveal a Toll of Addiction on Children
• Overcoming Addiction -Sobering Truth About Addiction Treatment in America
• A Dangerous Mix of Opioids Called ‘Gray Death’ is causing Overdoses in Parts of the US
• The Opioid Epidemic May Be Even Deadlier Than We Think
• Smart Approaches to Marijuana Reacts to Marijuana Lobbying Group’s Admission to Soliciting Donations from Tobacco Industry
• New Study Finds More Marijuana Use, Higher Rates of Marijuana Addiction States With Medical Marijuana Lawsin
• Kicking Pot to the Curb
• Casual cannabis use: Is there a link to depression?
• Opioid Addiction Is Infiltrating A Majority Of US Workplaces
• American Carnage – The New Landscape of Opiod Addiction
• Substance Use Disorders Could Be Costing Your Business More Than You Think
• National Leaders and Elected Officials Gather in Atlanta to Coordinate Opposition to Marijuana Legalization in America
• Saving Lives Is the First Imperative in the Opioid Epidemic
• Marijuana Legalization Bills Defeated in Maryland
• Cannabis Use and Risk for Substance Use Disorders and Mood or Anxiety Disorders
• Born addicts, opioid babies in withdrawal from first breath
• Marijuana Is Not Safe to Smoke, Researchers Say
• Pregnant Women Turn to Marijuana, Perhaps Harming Infants
• Letter re ‘medipot’ in the USA
• Fungus In Medical Marijuana Eyed As Possible Cause In California Man’s Death
• Is your medical marijuana safe? UC Davis doctors say dangerous bacteria, fungi can lurk in pot
• Burgeoning Marijuana Market Prompts Concerns about Crop’s Environmental Impact
• Colorado Health Agency Issues Second Report on Health Effects of Marijuana in State
• LETTER: Obama legacy includes drug addiction epidemic
• Middle school student hospitalized after eating marijuana gummy bears.
• Surgeon general commends efficiency of D.A.R.E. program
• Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health
• States legalizing marijuana warned over kids mistaking drug for candy
• Pills that kill: why are thousands dying from fentanyl abuse?
• U.S. Student Drug Survey: Marijuana Use Remains Strong Despite Drops in Other Drug Use
• “Zombie” Outbreak Caused by the Synthetic
• Obama’s Drug Policy Legacy: Overdose Deaths and Youth Pot Use
• What Child Is This?
• F.D.A. Agrees to New Trials for Ecstasy as Relief for PTSD Patients
• Study finds abnormally low blood flow in the brain of marijuana users
• The Marijuana Conundrum in North America
• Experts link homeless surge to pot
• New Surgeon General’s Report Highlights Dangers of Marijuana Use
• Experts in Nearby States Warn Against Prop. 64, Which Would Legalize Marijuana in California
• Synthetic Opioid Known as “Pink” Is Legal in Most States
• What do we know about marijuana’s medical benefits? Two experts explain the evidence
• Pink: Drug Twice as Powerful as Heroin but Legally Available on Web
• When A Lie Travels: Comparing Alcohol To Marijuana
• Pew Research Poll Reflects Views on Pot Decriminalisation
• Drug Cartels Substituting Fentanyl for Heroin, U.S. Government Agencies Warn
• Yes, it’s legal (but the law’s still a drag)
• Marijuana Marketed To Kids
• A Public Health Framework for Legalized Retail Marijuana Based on the US Experience:
• Parents should be wary of marijuana legalization
• Colorado, Testimonies – I wish we had never moved here….
• Many Myths Surround Molly and Ecstasy
• Coalitions in Action: Thinking Outside the Box in Rural Indiana
• Will Legalizing Marijuana Create Modern Bootleggers?
• U.S. and Chinese Drug Enforcement Agencies Meet on Synthetic Opioid Efforts
• Unintentional Pediatric Exposures to Marijuana in Colorado, 2009-2015.
• Videos from attendees at a conference in Colorado
• Why Medical Marijuana Patients Can’t Buy Guns
• NATIONAL FAMILIES IN ACTION RELEASES WHITE PAPER ON LEGALIZED MARIJUANA
• Effect of motivational interviewing on reduction of alcohol use
• Cracking down on youth tobacco may influence drug use
• Another example from the USA of big business deliberately targeting youth with alcoholic beverages with 60% proof, or 30% alcohol by volume
• Authorities raid illegal Calif. pot grows to help Yurok tribe
• Colorado youth marijuana use IS on the rise
• Don’t ignore the fact that marijuana is an addictive, destructive drug
• Trespass grows found on USFS land
• Study: Regular marijuana use linked to problems in midlife
• Synthetic Marijuana Sends Hundreds for Emergency Care in Colorado
• Legalized pot is making America’s lower class poorer and less responsible
• DEA Report: Counterfeit Pills Fuelling U.S. Fentanyl and Opioid Crisis
• So Much for Democracy
• Rehab facility says more people are battling ‘Marijuana Use Disorder’
• 33 sick after apparent mass drug overdose in New York City
• SPICE IN THE CITY
• Report: Thousands imprisoned for life for non-violent crimes?
• Ohio to require reporting of drug-addicted babies
• Media Continue Cover-up of Marijuana-induced Mental Illness
• Other Viewpoint: The costs of drug addiction
• Being an addict’s mom: ‘It’s just a very, very sad place’
• Crime Is Up in Colorado: What That Tells Us About Pot Legalization and, Perhaps More Importantly, Lazy Reporting
• Legalizing Marijuana in Oregon
• Regular marijuana use among college students at a three-decade high, survey says
• Why Libertarians Are Wrong About Drugs
• Viewpoint: Colorado is going to pot, don’t let Florida
• Marijuana use involved in more fatal accidents since commercialization of medical marijuana
• The following links give scientific evidence from scientist and medics in the USA, and do not support the use of cannabis.
• President Obama, Marijuana and The Media
• Powdered Alcohol Approved by Government Agency
• NYPD COMMISSIONER LINKS SHOOTINGS TO MARIJUANA
• Colorado teens see marijuana as less risky, new state wide research shows
• DEA Warning to Police and Public: Fentanyl Exposure Kills
• BUD BUSTERS: Surrey teens take on the tokers at ‘420’ rally in Vancouver
• Cannabis Hemp THC in the Food–Cosmetic Supply
• The Drug Problem
• If You Think Legalization Is Just about Marijuana, Think Again
• Wouldn’t it be simpler for the USA to not legalise so-called medical marijuana and so-called recreational pot?
• Weeds 3: A Documentary Showcasing Legitimate Scientific Research or an Infomercial to Legalize Marijuana?
• The impact of so-called medical marijuana and later the legalisation of marijuana in Colorado
• 3 Guaranteed Profits: Gambling, Prostitution, and #Cannabis
• THC extracts concentrate problems
• American Epilepsy Society President Says Side Effects of Artisanal CBD Oils Can Be So Severe No Paediatric Neurologist in Colorado Will Recommend Them
• Photos showing just how the marijuana business in the USA is targeting the youth market
• Sunday–Last Day of May
• Marijuana legalization movement makes no sense
• Response to Latest Claims by the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy
• Marijuana Intoxication Blamed In More Deaths, Injuries
• Trying to Enforce Colorado’s Conflicting Marijuana Regulatory Laws
• Re: “Maine Voices: Bill to address opiate crisis in Maine is a step in the right direction” by Becky DeKeuster (Jan. 23):
• Patrick Kennedy: Say No to Marijuana Legalisation
• What Is the Deal With Synthetic Marijuana?
• Drug Traffickers Seek Safe Haven Amid Legal Marijuana
• Police Departments Across the Nation Start “Treatment, Not Jail” Programs
• Lessons from Pot Experiment
• Alcohol Prohibition – Actually, Prohibition Was a Success
• 50-Year Trends in Smoking-Related Mortality in the United States
• Marijuana dependence influenced by genes, childhood sexual abuse
• Legal drinking age of 18 tied to high school dropout rate
• Number of Marijuana-Impaired Drivers Involved in Deadly Crashes Jumps 48 Percent in One Year in Washington State
• 10-percent of all babies born in Wicomico County, over the past 12 months, were born addicted to heroin
• So called ‘medical marijuana’, Charlotte’s Web and Epileptic Seizures
• Poll: Support for Marijuana Legalisation in Colorado Falling
• Police: Meth bust shows legal pot forces cartels to change tactics
• The Man Who Fell in Love With Weed
• ACLU Calls Legislature’s Plans to Raid Pot Taxes “Dangerously Shortsighted and Unwise”
• Cannabis and Stroke – Systematic Appraisal of Case Reports
• One surprising downside of marijuana legalization: major energy use
• Shatter is a potent and highly addictive new form of marijuana
• The Connections Between Psychotropic Drugs and Irrational Acts of Violence – What Journalists, Lawyers, Laypersons and Healthcare Providers Need to Know
• Students banned from cannabis coffee shops ‘more likely to pass exams,’ a Dutch study claims
• Cannabis smokers warned they risk poorer exam grades
• Obama’s Jamaican Fantasy
• Drug Politics
• Good News from Monitoring the Future 2014
• NEUROSCIENCE OF RECOVERY: THE BRAIN IN RECOVERY
• Colorado one year on. Legalisers’ theories have gone to pot
• Club Drug ‘Molly’ Causes Hospitalizations at Wesleyan
• Soros-Owned Restaurant Sued for Wage Violations
• THE EFFECTS OF MARIJUANA ON THE BODY
• New UK political party wants to make cannabis an election issue
• Marijuana Edibles Blamed For Keystone Death
• Status Report on State Compliance of Federal Marijuana Enforcement Policy
• FROM TRAUMA TO TRANSFORMATIVE RECOVERY
• Flavored alcoholic drinks linked to risky teen behaviors
• Legal Dope for Native Americans?
• New data shows Indiana high school seniors are trying marijuana more often than alcohol and cigarettes.
• Not the Usual College Party (This One’s Sober)
• Probability and predictors of remission from life-time nicotine, alcohol, cannabis or cocaine dependence
• Palcohol
• Team to study how alcohol hijacks brain’s reward system
• Painkiller-Addicted Babies a Growing U.S. Concern, Especially in Fla.
• Flavored alcohol may increase risk of binge drinking, related injuries
• Reducing stigma attached to addiction
• America’s Appetite for Drugs Fuelling Mexican Violence
• Research Review Prompts NIDA Warning About Marijuana Use.
• The pro-pot people always exaggerate the impact of the criminal justice system on users.
• My Turn: Scientists who know say ‘no’ to legal pot
• As Seen on TV: Advertising’s Influence on Alcohol Abuse
• Of Course Marijuana Addiction Exists. And It’s (Almost) All in Your Head.
• Attorneys general take on ‘Spice’ drug
• Animal Study Suggests Marijuana May Affect Future Offspring’s Susceptibility to Heroin
• Colorado’s ‘Pot Pregnancies’ Birthing New Generation of Crack Babies
• UN drugs body warns US states and Uruguay over cannabis legalisation
• SAM Statement on the lawsuit from Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas law enforcement officials
• Director Botticelli sits down for “FACE to FACE with SAM”
• Investigation Reveals Medical Marijuana Is Getting Into School Kids’ Hands
• Women twice as likely to see pot as risky
• Laboratories of Democracy
• What No One Is Saying About Marijuana – Why You Should Care….
• Further legalization of all drugs in USA?
• Neil McKeganey: Expert drug advisers turn a blind eye to the dire failings of the methadone programme
• That Six-Serving Bar of Marijuana Chocolate? My Son Ate It
• Why Colleges Haven’t Stopped Binge Drinking
• Drug enforcement is not racist
• Drug Users Silently Aiding Gun Thugs
• Prediction: California crime wave coming
• Big Marijuana Is Not Your Friend
• Marijuana Legalization and Young Brains: Time for Serious Study
• Story of tax dollars from sales of marijuana going to good causes is incorrect.
• Pot Legalization and Crime Rates in Denver, Colorado
• Dangerous new marijuana product looks like lip balm, packs big kick
• Cully Stimson: Obama gets pottier. Now he wants a drug legaliser as one of his law officers.
• Duck and Cover: How the Obama Administration Mishandled the 2014 National Household Survey on Drug Use and Health
• Marijuana’s Anti-Environmentalists
• RIVERSIDE COUNTY: Authorities battle booming marijuana grows
• The New Civil Rights Division Head Wants to Decriminalize Possession of All Drugs
• Does Eric Holder’s Successor Face a Momentum Shift on Dope?
• Pot studies suggest regular use is bad for teen brains
• Smoking marijuana caused car crash killing passengers
• Prescription Drugs ‘Orphan’ Children In Eastern Kentucky
• Biotech Researcher Finds Medical Pot Laced With Faeces
• Adverse Health Effects of Marijuana Use
• Drug czar approaches challenge from a different angle: As a recovering alcoholic
• The Disaster Of CBD-Only ‘Medical Marijuana’ Legislation
• Water-Guzzling Pot Plants Draining Drought-Wracked California
• The Devastation That’s Really Happening in Colorado
• Colorado’s troubles with pot
• Youth regularly receive pro-marijuana tweets
• Pot oil explosions a growing problem
• Survey Finds 17% of High School Students Abuse Substances During School Day
• Alcohol a leading cause of preventable death
• A letter was published by the NY Times re Alcohol, Marijuana
• Denver Crime Rate Up by almost 7%
• Corrupting citizens for fun and profit
• Legal pot blamed for some of influx of homeless in Denver this summer
• FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK: Down The Rabbit Hole
• Only 7.3% of the population of the USA are current users of marijuana
• Legal Pot Is a Public Health Menace
• Officials Concerned About Potential New Powdered Alcohol Product
• DOCTORS SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA 
• Alarm at the promotion of numerous marijuana strains to treat serious mental health issues without any medical protocols.
• Big Marijuana — Lessons from Big Tobacco
• Smoke and mirrors in druggy Colorado. Press reporting standards down, crime up
• Colorado lawmaker seeks marijuana tax review amid disappointing sales
• Greed merchants growing like weeds around Amendment 2
• Science and Reason re Marijuana
• Sharp rise in babies born with foetal alcohol syndrome
• The impact of marijuana on brain functions
• Colorado Deputy: School Resource Officers Will Be Busier if Medical Marijuana Passes in Florida
• Lowe’s Home Improvement store hiring policy
• Medical marijuana in Oregon: State program prone to exploitation, abuse, report says
• State med board to docs: We won’t stop you from getting into med pot business, but enter at your own risk
• Teen Seizures And Deaths Linked To Dangerous Designer Drug “N-Bomb” –
• Perceived Parent and Peer Marijuana Norms: The Moderating Effect of Parental Monitoring During College.
• Parental disapproval contributes to racial, ethnic differences in prescription drug misuse by teens
• Marijuana, tobacco, treated very differently by the government
• Reefer Madness: Only 3 Percent of Pot Stories Mention Health Risks
• Metro: Marijuana impairment rising among drivers
• Deal leads state to path forward on cannabis oil treatment
• Don’t Go to Pot
• George Soros’ real crusade: Legalizing marijuana in the U.S.
• Calvina Fay: Why we must say no to drug legalisation
• Drug Courts in Minnesota: Smart on crime, not ‘soft on crime’
• Parents given lowdown on a variety of drugs that threaten children
• A Look Inside Colorado’s Pot Industry
• South Florida business owners discuss prospects of profiting from legal pot
• 24 Mind-Blowing Facts About Marijuana
• Vaporizers: the new pot industry
• U.S. weighs crackdown on environmental damage from pot growers
• The Quarter Backs of the New Anti-Drugs Movement – Project Sam
• The Myth of Marijuana for Medical Use
• The U.S. Love Affair With Addiction
• Montana Soap Box: Marijuana causes big problems
• Keep off the Grass
• Rising levels of THC in the urine of our young patients
• The perils of legalized pot
• Presidential disconnect on pot
• Saying ‘No’ to Drugs But Dying in Violence
• Anti-Marijuana Legalization Billboards Appear in Advance of Super Bowl
• Epilepsy experts call for more research into medical marijuana
• The President Inhales
• Cannabis is much more pernicious than Obama knows
• Even Lady Gaga knows pot is not harmless
• Weed – Been there. Done That
• Graph: Young people aged 12 – 17 years of age in the USA who have used marijuana in the past month
• The folly of marijuana legalization
• Normalising pot is priming a public-health time bomb
• ‘Marijuana Bowl’ Buzz not so Super
• Drug traffickers threaten Central America’s democratic gains
• Youth pot smoking rises as attitudes shift
• Colorado’s new high not for Massachusetts
• 2014 – When Doping Duped Americans Begins
• Death rates soar among women using prescription drugs
• Brain Scan Study Suggests ‘Pothead’ Stereotype Might Be Real
• Pot problems in Colorado schools increase with legalization
• Doctor says impact of marijuana in Colorado reaches Iowa
• Cannabinoids on Steroids
• Emergency Department Visits Involving Drug Molly Jumped 128 Percent Amongst Young People
• Teens in child welfare system show higher drug abuse rate
• Hard to fight war on drugs when we are the ones fuelling it
• Article does not reflect the growing reality of marijuana as a public health and safety threat
• The Cannabis-Psychosis Link
• Electronic cigarettes more popular with teens, worrying health experts
• In Defense of the Drug War
• Police: Santa Cruz blast victims making hash oil
• Suspected Illnesses Linked to Synthetic Marijuana in Colorado Rises to 150
• ‘Bath Salts’ Drugs Led to 23,000 ER Visits in One Year: U.S. Report
• Marijuana use among Jessamine County teenagers is higher than the Kentucky average.
• Study: Kindergarten behavior can predict later drug abuse — but early intervention can help
• Hemp/Marijuana “QUOTES” (From the Legalizers)
• Colorado Fails to Regulate Marijuana
• The Legalisation of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact Vol. 1/August 2013
• Legalizing Marijuana — The Real Costs
• Little evidence harm reduction reduces harm
• The Nation’s Pulse: Initiatives Have Consequences
• Legalizing Drugs Won’t Make Organized Crime Disappear: Kerlikowske
• Legal” drugs killing us: 20 Signs That The Pharmaceutical Companies Are Running A 280 Billion Dollar Money Making Scam
• Purdue Pharma L.P. To Present Data Describing Changes in Oxycodone Abuse in Rural Kentucky Following the Introduction of Reformulated OxyContin®…
• A Win for Families: Urban Outfitters Halts Prescription Drug Paraphernalia Product Sales
• Tennessee hospital treats drug-dependent babies
• Yale Study Associates Marijuana Use With Prescription Drug Abuse
• Smoke travels to non-smoking hotel rooms, study shows
• Voters becoming wise to medical-marijuana ruse
• Pot Smoking Can Cause Recurrent Nausea and Vomiting
• 10-Year-Old Inundated With Pot Ads On His Cellphone
• Marijuana: Another Human Clinical Trial but With No Consent Form
• GOP should stand firm against drug legalization/Responding to Joe Klein on Drug Legalization
• The most effective ‘drug pushing’ measure ever – permission.
• Marijuana not a safe or effective medicine
• Study Examines New Treatment for Marijuana Dependence
• Marijuana: A Gift of the Left to America’s Youth
• Medical pot laws result in increased teen drug use
• Experts worry that medical-pot laws promote teen use
• Smoke and mirrors: Colorado teenagers and marijuana
• Marijuana Side Effects Study Debated
• The DEA’s pot defense [Blowback]
• A Response to Steven Chapman’s ‘The War On Pot: Not a Safe Bet’
• A Kennedy Shocks the Pro-Dope Liberal Media
• Marijuana cardholders selling to each other, on the streets
• HASC Report comment by Monte Stiles
• Chart of Commonly Abused Prescription Drugs
• Medical marijuana laws in 50 states
• Legalizing Pot is Not the Answer!
• So-called ‘medical marijuana’ results in increased use by youth
• U.S. Illegal Drug Use Down Substantially from 1970s
• Substance-Impaired Driving
• Toxic chemicals poisoned wildlife in cannabis gardens
• Public lands and wildlife destroyed by marijuana
• One drug connection that everyone ignores
• The case against drug legalization
• Letter from ONDCP re ‘Medical Marijuana’
• ‘For medicinal purposes’
• A Drug Policy for the 21st Century
• Deaths from Prescription Drugs – USA
• Adaptive programming improves outcomes in drug court: an experimental trial.
• Pat Robertson is wrong about marijuana
• Marijuana Legislation’s Unintended Consequences
• Marijuana Impaired Driving: A serious safety problem
• Dawn is almost here, but hope seems far away.
• California Medical Association Not So Medical Says Drug Policy Experts
• Experts Call New Strategies on AIDS Prevention Ineffective!
• Planning Commission to consider ban on medical marijuana dispensaries
• Marijuana and Youth – Experiences From a Practising Physician
• Genetic Risk Factors for both Marijuana and Alcohol Misuse Similar
• Study Finds Hospitalization Increases for Alcohol and Drug Overdoses
• Cannabis, synthetic cannabinoids, and psychosis risk: What the evidence says
• Brain Scans Show Danger of Meth Exposure During Pregnancy
• The so-called ‘Drug War’ in the USA has not been’lost’ !
• Drug Legalisation in USA?
• Success in the USA in Reducing Drugs Use
• Free Drugs or Drug Free?
• New Field Poll Shows California Voters Oppose Legalized Marijuana
• Families Protected by Healthcare Professionals Drug Prevention Outreach
• Driving under Influence of Marijuana a Growing Problem
• 14 Hawaii Religious Marijuana Advocates Indicted
• A Broken Mind
• Consequences of Illicit Drug Use In America
• CESAR Study Finds 9 Warning Signs of Early Marijuana Use Among Maryland’s Public School Students
• School-Based Prevention Cuts Drug Use, Violence, NIDA Says
• CDC issues statement and recommendations regarding prescription drug misuse
• Drug overdose: Medical marijuana facing a backlash
• More Americans Admitted for Opiate, Marijuana Treatment, SAMHSA Reports
• The Involvement of Marijuana in California Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes 1998 -2008
• Substance Abuse Prevention Dollars and Cents: A Cost-Benefit Analysis U.S.
• Monitoring the Future survey shows that while marijuana continues to be the most commonly
• Survey of High School Students Finds Significant Drop in Drug and Alcohol Use
• Business embraces drug tests
• Marijuana Smoke Listed Effective June 19, 2009 as Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer
• Marijuana legalization? A White House rebuttal, finally
• Proposed “Safe-Injection” Site in San Francisco Ignores Proven Solutions to Treating Drug Addicts
• Obama is AWOL in the Drug Wars
• Why Marijuana Legalization Would Compromise Public Health and Public Safety
• Taxing Marijuana
• More good news on teen smoking in USA: Rates at or near record lows
• L.A. Medical-Pot Shops Peddle to LAUSD Pupils
• Seeing Through the Haze: The Impact of Drug Legalization in America
• Taxing Marijuana
• Drug Use Down in USA
• Drug Overdose Deaths Skyrocketing in USA
• Small part of drug-related state spending goes to prevention
• No: California does not need any more stoners
• Texas Prevention Impact Index
• Meth Project targets youths
• What addiction really costs in the USA
• Turn On, Tune In, Light Up
• Drug Court Prevents Overdoses in South Boston
• Drug Court Prevents Overdoses in South Boston
• Congressional Subcommittee Questions the Scientific Validity of “Harm Reduction”
• Drug Use Skyrocketing In USA
• Steep rise in abuse of legal drugs
• Trends in Drug Related Emergency Dept
• Teen Drug Abuse Declines Across Wide Front
• Monitoring the Future Survey Results Released
• Drug trafficking
• Substantial Declines in Teen Drug use
• Teen Drug Use Continues To Decline
• Three Factors Behind Teen Drug Use
• HIV and Hepatitis C Have Reached ‘Near Saturation’ Among Injecting Drug Users
• Parents Seriously Underestimate Availability and Use of Drugs Among Their Children
• Education Campaign Aims to Reverse Trends in Teen ‘Meth’ and Ecstasy Use
• Early Marijuana Use Called Pathway to Addiction
• Rat Study Conducted by University of Georgia Researchers Suggests That Cannabis Interferes With Sustained Attention
• Students who smoke marijuana likely to see lower math scores
• The relationship between marijuana initiation and dropping out of high school
• Study finds smoking marijuana can cause cancer
• Study links teen use of tobacco and pot
• Maine House Gives Final Approval to Smoke free Bars House Votes 95-47 to Become 5th Smoke free State
• 5 Million Deaths a Year Worldwide from Smoking Tobacco smoke is the world’s most lethal weapon of mass destruction.
• Teen anti drugs make impact
• Marijuana Misuse Increases Depression Risk
• THC Level Skyrockets
• Evidence Accumulates That Long-Term Marijuana Users Experience Withdrawal
• Preventive education for adolescents or children
• Neighborhood revitalization
• Ozzy Says He Now Believes Pot Leads To Other Addictions
• Religious Beliefs Linked to Decreased Drug Use
• Study shows MS patients further impaired by smoking Low-THC marijuana
• What Americans need to know about Marijuana
• Snippets from SAMHSA
• Report Shows Parents Unaware of Children’s Ecstasy Use
• The Government Might Be Right About Marijuana
• Anti-drug testing bill threatens students
• Drug Use in the USA
• Drug Courts Pay Off
• Drug Abuse Trends Minneapolis – St Paul
• College Students Discount Smoking Health Risks
• Cocaine May Compromise Immune System, Increase Risk of Infection
• Cigarettes Contribute to Early Cardiac Deaths Worldwide
• HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIOLOGY: HIV rates, risk factors among different IDU types determined
• A New Drug Threat: Salvia – by Mike Bush
• Does Marijuana Withdrawal Syndrome Exist?
• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents
• SMART Leaders
• Smoking Prevalence In U.S. Birth Cohorts: Influence of Gender and Education
• Smoking, pregnancy and poverty
• Prevention & Education
• Addiction – Desire to smoke may be inborn
• Tobacco companies supply film-makers products (‘Product Placement’)
• BAT knew tobacco was addictive
• Psychosocial and Pharmacological Explanations of Nicotine’s “Gateway Drug” Function
• Drugs and Crime
• Uncle Sam’s Example
• Drug Testing USA
• Back to School Teen Survey – USA
• Country Reports:
• Philadelphia Inquirer: South Jersey Man Faces A Rare Drug Charge
• Access to funds increases substance abuse and drug-related death
• Hunterdon High School 7-year student drug use data released
• Ronald Reagan To Go Down In History As The Champion of the War On Illicit Drugs

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