Do Nats want to sell party pills to ...
16-June-2005, New Zealand, Scoop
Does the National Party want to sell party pills to ten-year-olds? The National Party's contribution to the Parliamentary debate on the Misuse of Drugs Amendment No. 3 Bill this morning was chilling because it shows a National-led government would ...

New drugs raising concern
13-June-2005, United States, deseretnews.com
By Pat Reavy Deseret Morning News Abuse of the popular painkiller Oxycontin has caused problems for law enforcement and doctors for years. Now the rising popularity of two other drugs is causing added concern along the Wasatch Front. ...

KIDS USING CANNABIS UP BY 1,300 PER CENT
06-June-2005, United Kingdom, Mirror.co.uk
Alarm over 'huge rise' By Bridget Carter THE number of young schoolchildren taking cannabis has rocketed by more than 1,300 per cent, claims a report. Some 26 per cent of boys and 27 per cent of girls aged 14 and 15 said they had taken the ...

Illicit 'Study Drugs' Tempting More Students
02-June-2005, United States, ABC News
Maggie is an "A" student at a top university — highly motivated, and determined to do well. But when she recently allowed "Primetime Live" cameras to follow her during finals week, she asked not to have her real name or the school she was ...

Attacking Judges, Not Drugs
05-May-2005, United States, L.A. Times
One of every 138 U.S. residents is now serving time. Get-tough policies enacted in the 1980s and 1990s — like three-strikes laws in California and other states — have swelled the jail and prison inmate population to a record 2.1 million, according a ...

Tony Blair Tackles Drugs in Schools
30-April-2005, United Kingdom, ArriveNet
Head teachers are allowed to randomly test pupils if suspected of taking drugs as part of a drive to curb drug abuse among teenagers. The Prime Minister"s comments given to the News of the World has had backing from the Conservative Party and ...

Marijuana: The Myths Are Killing Us
26-April-2005, United States, DEA
When 14-year-old Irma Perez of Belmont, California, took a single ecstasy pill one evening last April, she had no idea she would become one of the 26,000 people who die every year from drugs.1 Irma took ecstasy with two of her 14-year-old friends in ...

Students volunteer to stamp out drugs
25-April-2005, China, Xinhuanet
BEIJING, April 25 -- Fudan University set up the city's first student social work team involved in preventing drug abuse yesterday. About 80 students have signed up to be part-time social workers with the Fudan Ziqiang Youth Volunteer Team, ...

Players can get 'high' in 'Narc' video game
22-April-2005, United States, CNN
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- In the first-person video game "Narc," published by Midway, you play an undercover police officer busting drug dealers. Except in this game, your cop character can take the drugs he confiscates -- and the illicit ...

College acts on ‘herbal drugs
18-April-2005, New Zealand, Wairarapa Times-Age
By Piers Fuller SEVERAL students at Wairarapa College have been reprimanded for taking "herbal drugs". Although the over the counter pills are legal, the school says it has a no drugs policy. Wairarapa College principal Mike Schwass said the ...

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