US on Alert for Canadian Drugs

US on Alert for Canadian Drugs
Filed under: cocaine addiction prevention
The U.S. is grappling with a deadly epidemic of painkiller overdoses, which are responsible for more deaths than heroin, cocaine and all other illegal drugs combined. Overdoses of such painkillers reached 15,000 a year in 2009, the … Endo Vice … Read more on Wall Street Journal

Recovering Heroin Addict Shares her Story of Getting Clean
Filed under: cocaine addiction prevention
It often takes hitting rock bottom for addicts to turn their lives around. That was the case for one Marshfield woman, who nearly lost everything before she found the strength to get clean. Lisa McKenzie has tried just about everything, from marijuana … Read more on WSAW

Recidivism, AIDS Infections Linked Among Black, Latino Men
Filed under: cocaine addiction prevention
In the late 1980s, tying a rise in violent crime to crack cocaine, Congress passed laws punishing crack use that carried jail time sometimes 100 times longer than for powder-cocaine convictions, according to the Drug Policy Alliance, an advocacy group … Read more on National Journal