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. ...

Deadly Decisions: Meth on the verge of getting ...
12-June-2005, United States, Plainview Daily Herald
By TIM WATTS Herald Staff Writer A growing problem in Plainview and a focus of the strong arm of the law these days is methamphetamines -- simply known as “meth.” It is a manmade drug that produces a high of approximately 8-24 hours. More ...

Drugs, not Taser, to blame in Lauderdale man's ...
12-June-2005, United States, The Miami Herald
A man shocked with a Taser by deputies in West Park died from cardiac arrest induced by cocaine in his system, a spokeswoman for the Broward Sheriff's Office said Sunday. Deputies used a Taser stun gun on Horace Owens, 48, after he broke into a ...

If you want to cut gun crime, first you have to ...
12-June-2005, United Kingdom, Times Online
Stories of the latest war on gun crime appeared last week flanked by advertisements for a film called Mr & Mrs Smith. A glamorous couple were depicted with handguns as sexually explicit fashion items. Gun laws are like gun movies. They are erotic ...

Iraq Used For Transit Of Drugs, Officials Say
12-June-2005, Iraq, washingtonpost.com
By Jonathan Finer Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, June 12, 2005; Page A22 BAGHDAD -- The manager of the addiction unit at Baghdad's largest treatment center for substance abusers took a long drag from his Craven cigarette and offered ...

Butt banned after testing positive for ecstasy
10-June-2005, United Kingdom, Scotsman.com
THE Scotland cricketer Asim Butt will learn if he has any international future next week, after he admitted taking ecstasy before a key game. The 37-year-old seam bowler was banned for a year by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) after ...

Owner of West Side Club Is Acquitted of Drug-Den ...
10-June-2005, United States, The New York Times
By JULIA PRESTON Published: June 10, 2005 In a surprising upset for federal prosecutors, the owner of the Sound Factory, once one of Manhattan's hottest nightclubs, was acquitted by a jury yesterday on charges that he turned the club into a den ...

Another baggage handler charged
09-June-2005, Australia, The Courier-Mail
CLAIMS of drug-smuggling by Sydney airport workers have shifted to the domestic terminal, where a baggage handler has been arrested - offering hope to Schapelle Corby's appeal team. The arrest yesterday of Richard Camilleri, 40, marked the fourth ...

Seeing Slavery in Liberalism
09-June-2005, United States, The New York Times
Janice Rogers Brown, the African-American daughter of Alabama sharecroppers who was confirmed Wednesday to the federal appeals court here, often invokes slavery in describing what she sees as the perils of liberalism. Roll-Call Vote on Justice ...

Eyes on Congress for Medical Marijuana Relief
08-June-2005, United States, Daily News Central
Diane Monson of Oroville, Calif., smokes marijuana to relieve the effects of degenerative spine disease. Her status as a plaintiff in a case that went all the way to the US Supreme Court put her on the marquee of a controversial cause. An ...

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