Some baby boomers still getting high, report says

Forty years after Woodstock, some baby boomers haven't let go of one part of the 1960s: getting high on illicit drugs.

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Illegal Drug Use Increases in UK Army

The number of British army soldiers testing positive for illegal drugs has increased sharply, according to research published Friday.

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New Study Shows Decline in Teen Drug Use

Illicit drug use by teens continued to gradually decline overall this year, but the use of prescription painkillers remains popular among young people, according to a federally financed study released Tuesday at the White House.

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Drug Use Up for Boomers, Down for Teens

Some moms and dads might want to take a lesson from their kids: Just say no.

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Amid Deaths, Heroin Addicts Keep Using

A self-described drug addict stood by a vacant lot on the city's South Side and pointed down the block. There, he says, more than a dozen of his friends and acquaintances died after using heroin laced with a strong painkiller.

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Some of us wondered in geometry class how Pythagoras came up with his famous theorem regarding the relationship between the hypotenuse and the remaining two sides of a right triangle.

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Rats develop memory loss in adulthood after receiving high doses of amphetamines during their "teen" years, new research shows.

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Need more evidence that marijuana has gone mainstream in America? This morning on the Today show, Matt Lauer chatted up a piece on so-called stiletto stoners -- educated, professional women with killer careers and enviable social lives who favor marijuana as their intoxicant of c …

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1. Marijuana Use Is Not Associated With a Rise in Incidences of Schizophrenia 2. Marijuana Smoke Doesn't Damage the Lungs Like Tobacco 3. Cannabis Use Potentially Protects, Rather Than Harms, the Brain 4. Marijuana Is a Terminus, Not a 'Gateway,' to Hard Drug Use

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The Adam Smith Institute today urges the next government to rethink policy from first principles. Its book, Zero Base Policy, will nowhere be more controversial than on narcotics. It suggests that Britain's drug policy is "one of the most spectacular failures in history.

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CASA's own study refutes one of the biggest arguments made by prohibitionists to keep pot illegal. Is it really for the kids?

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Following in Mexico's footsteps last week, the Supreme Court of Argentina has unanimously ruled today on decriminalizing the possession of drugs for personal consumption.

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With the backdrop of a recession and rising unemployment, it might seem like an unusual time to be asking ourselves how we in business can do more to engage with disadvantaged groups, such as recovering drug users or the homeless.

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TOUGH policing of the illegal drugs market may have the perverse effect of making drugs more affordable and thereby encouraging people to use them, according to a new model of the dynamics of this market.

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Legalization = Bunk Schwag for Everyone.

I could stand on my libertarian soapbox and lecture for hours about the failed war on drugs, the concept of personal responsibility, the pouring of money across the border to drug cartels, so on and so forth.

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A bill that would outlaw the psychoactive herb Salvia divinorum has passed the state Senate, prompting consumers to rush to buy it legally.

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Is it time to legalize Marijuana?

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"Regardless of how you try to explain to people it's a 'war on drugs' or a 'war on a product,' people see a war as a war on them. We're not at war with people in this country." - Gil Kerlikowske

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ADD & ADHD Psychiatric Drug Treatment -- Investigation Needed!

There is so much controversy over whether or not children/adults should be prescribed with psychiatric drugs (like Ritalin®, Adderall®, Concerta®, etc.) for treatment of attention, behavior or learning problems (ADHD), or be treated the holistic, nutritional, or medical way (w …

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ADD and ADHD Psychiatric Drugs Truth (Mislabeling and Mind-altering)!

If a child has one or more of the following attention/behavior problems, they will more than likely be diagnosed as having the psychiatric made-up "behavior disorder" term "ADHD"(Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) and prescribed a mind-altering drug, like Ritalin, Adderall …

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This is a classic example of Americas dumbist criminals! You will laugh all day on this one! Enjoy! Excerpt: DeWitt had a crude system for hiding and retrieving the pills, jail administrator Dave Battles said.

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"Unfortunately, today, a bag of heroin can be cheaper than a 6 pack of beer," said John Gilbride, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Agency's New York Field Division.

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Back in February, we detailed how record numbers of Americans -- although certainly not yet a majority -- support the idea of legalizing marijuana.

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Taking the drug ecstasy is no more dangerous than riding a horse, a senior advisor has suggested.

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The 1980's predicted a bleak future for babies born to cocaine users. This article reviews the long-term impact to those "crack babies".

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Steve Rolles' great down-home look at what life would REALLY be like if the global effort to criminalize drug use just collapsed.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -The Albuquerque Police Department has turned to the want ads for snitches.

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It has long been suspected that humans have an ancient history of drug use, but there has been a lack of proof to support the theory.

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Eric Daniel Early, 26, was found guilty in Rockingham County Superior Court last week of first-degree arson, possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting a public officer. He was sentenced to 65 to 87 months in prison, the district attorney said in a news release. On Nov.

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Anyone supporting drug legalization must reconcile their position with the existence of these coked-up hallucinating tattooed hooligans on motorcycles.

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