Aunt Charged With Drug Trafficking in Ryan Good Death

Published March 20, 2014

Aunt charged with drug trafficking in Ryan Good death
Filed under: drug abuse of cocaine
“I feel there's a transition where the police were used to investigating illicit drug use, illicit trafficking – the cocaine, heroin or investigating those types of crimes,” she said. “Where now, prescription drug abuse has taken over a lot of that … Read more on Globalnews.ca

Floridians Are Mixing Heroin With Other Drugs and It's Killing Them
Filed under: drug abuse of cocaine
… found locally in fatal drug mixes is the prescription tranquilizer benzodiazepine (followed by alcohol, oxycodone, and cocaine), not surprising perhaps because in recent years Florida has stood at the epicenter of a massive wave of prescription … Read more on Miami New Times (blog)

Lethal injection: Student heroin use increases
Filed under: drug abuse of cocaine
The number of heroin users in the U.S. has increased by almost 80 percent from 373,000 in 2007 to 669,000 in 2012, according to the federal government's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration National Survey on Drug Use and Health … Read more on The University of Alabama Crimson White