Heroin Deaths Up Sharply in Connecticut
Heroin Deaths Up Sharply In Connecticut
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Accidental deaths from all drugs — including heroin, cocaine, morphine, codeine and mixes of drugs — increased 38 percent in Connecticut to 490 in 2013 from 355 in 2012, according to the data. The steep death toll has continued into 2014, police said … Read more on FOX CT
Pa. doctors: Painkillers can lead to heroin, ODs
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And, she said, prescription overdose deaths now outnumber heroin and cocaine overdose deaths combined. "More Pennsylvanians now die from … Dr. Michael Ashburn, director of the Penn Pain Medicine Center in Philadelphia, said during a conference call … Read more on Pocono Record
How Spinks and Spinks Made History
How Spinks and Spinks made history
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In a return match with Holmes, on April 19 1986, Michael won on a split decision. After beating Steffen Tangstead and Gerry Cooney, he defended his belts against Mike Tyson. Tyson was the 4-1 favourite for the bout on June 27 1988 in Atlantic City … Read more on SuperSport
Fund Drug Abuse Data Source
Fund drug abuse data source
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However, it is patently ill-suited for tracking heroin use, let alone abuse or dependence on heroin and other hard drugs like crack and methamphetamine. Unfortunately, due to budget concerns the federal government just shut down a critical data source … Read more on Pacific Daily News
US cocaine use cut by half, while marijuana consumption jumps, study finds
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… rooted in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which surveys nearly 70,000 individuals each year. Estimates for cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine are largely based on information from the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program, or ADAM. Read more on Medical Xpress
Service With a Snarl
Service With A Snarl
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Cheers (the popular television series that ran for 11 years) boasted a tagline that identified it as the place "where everybody knows your name." Frank Bruni's … Let's start with the basics: a female bartender who has kicked a nasty cocaine habit and … Read more on Huffington Post (blog)
As Colorado allows pot sales, others reverse their course
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MAASTRICHT, Netherlands – A young man at a bus stop hisses at a passer-by: “What you looking for … marijuana?” It's a scene of street … PERSONAL USE: The Dutch policy allows citizens to own small amounts of weed and cultivate a few cannabis plants … Read more on The Durango Herald
Coffee: A Closer Look at Society's Favorite Legal Drug
Coffee: A closer look at society's favorite legal drug
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That's one reason why so many athletes and soldiers use it another is that it can increase athletic ability by 3%. Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky at McMaster University in Canada found that caffeine increases the amount of calcium released inside our muscles … Read more on MuslimVillage.com
Scouting Report III: Humility
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Third, and most importantly, it's become sound-bite commonplace for athletes to issue the, "I'm humbled by [insert high achievement here]" platitude when winning their various Supered Bowls or entering any number of Fame-based Halls. … Use your bench … Read more on Anchor of Gold (blog)
Toxic Mix of Drugs Killed Philip Seymour Hoffman
Toxic mix of drugs killed Philip Seymour Hoffman
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NEW YORK (AP) — Philip Seymour Hoffman died from taking a combination of heroin, cocaine and other drugs, the New York City medical examiner ruled Friday, a toxic mix that addiction specialists say is not uncommon in the tens of thousands of overdose … Read more on The Providence Journal
One kingpin down
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That was seven years after his first conviction, in 1993, after which he ruled his cocaine empire, it was charged, from his cell with the assistance of a brother on the outside. Imprisonment has never stopped the honchos of organized crime from using … Read more on The Providence Journal