Coke-addicted cop should keep job, appeal panel ...
16-May-2005, Canada, CBC News
A Toronto Police officer who says his cocaine addiction resulted from undercover work should be allowed to keep his job, a review board said Monday.
The decision by the Ontario Civilian Commission on Police Services (OCCOPS) reverses an earlier ...
Rush Limbaugh: Talent On Loan from Drugs
03-May-2005, United States, buzzflash
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by BuzzFlash Reader Chuck Muziani
Will Rush Limbaugh be on the air to campaign for the Republicans during the 2006 election cycle?
Mr. Limbaugh is under investigation for obtaining over 2,000 prescription drugs ...
Cops win small battle, but U.S. is blowing drug ...
08-April-2005, United States, Chicago Sun Times
Tim Trevier is a big man with 15 titanium earrings, a diamond nose ring, a leather do-rag and a modified fu manchu. If you saw him on the street, you'd look twice, but it would never cross your mind that he is cop.
At 42, he has been a police ...
Whitney Houston Back to Rehab
25-March-2005, United States, Toronto Sun
A YEAR after her first reported stay in rehab, Whitney Houston has again checked in. "Whitney Houston has re-entered a rehabilitation facility today," her publicist, Nancy Seltzer, told The Associated Press on Wednesday. She declined to provide ...
Velvet Revolver's Scott Weiland Says He's Off ...
10-March-2005, United States, Yahoo news
Velvet Revolver vocalist Scott Weiland says in the April issue of Esquire that his family helped him kick drugs for good, according to the Associated Press. Weiland tells the magazine, "Right now, for the first time in my life, I'm finally happy. I ...
Psych drugs trick rats out of cocaine addiction
07-February-2005, United States, ABC News
By Sophie Scott
Rats have been successfully cured of cocaine addictions without any withdrawal symptoms through a treatment Melbourne scientists hope will work in humans.
Cocaine boosts the levels of dopamines or feel-good hormones, in the ...
Kate Moss gives drugs deadline to Pete Doherty!:
01-February-2005, United Kingdom, newkerala
Super model Kate Moss has warned her rocker boyfriend Pete Doherty to quit hard drugs or face losing her.
According to the sources, Doherty's pictures, published in British newspapers showing him smoking heroin at his East London home, have made ...
Official proposes agency to give drugs to addicts
30-January-2005, United States, Indianapolis Star
Crown Point -- A top Lake County officeholder is calling for a national agency that would give certified addicts the drugs they crave so they do not patronize dealers on the streets.
Gerry Scheub, president of the Lake County Commissioners, said ...
Taking the crime out of drugs
26-January-2005, China, China Daily
The community methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) programme is proving an effective therapy for keeping heroin addicts off illegal narcotics and reducing drug-related crime in East China's Zhejiang Province.
So far, about 300 addicts in the ...
Number of deaths blamed on drugs falls
07-January-2005, Germany, FAZ Weekly
The number of deaths caused by illegal drug use fell during 2004 to its lowest level since 1989, a survey conducted by the Associated Press showed this week. A total of 1,324 people died as a result of illegal drug use, the survey found. That ...
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