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 ...
Addictive drugs given to US sleep deprived - ...
01-June-2005, United States, Reuters AlerNet
Doctors prescribe potentially addictive drugs nearly half the time when patients seek help with a sleep disorder, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
Older patients and those with publicly funded health insurance plans were nearly twice as ...
Two Locals Jailed For Consuming Drugs
01-June-2005, Brunei, Brudirect.com
Two local men, who were produced before the Bandar Magistrate's Court yesterday to face drug charges, were sentenced to jail upon pleading guilty.
Ahmad bin Hj Mahmud, 38, faced a charge of possessing Methylamphetamine, a second charge of ...
Bali police chief declares 'war' on drugs
31-May-2005, Indonesia, ABC News
Bali's police chief has declared an "all out war" on drugs on the resort island but insists the crackdown will not hurt tourism, because tourists will always be welcome in Bali and enjoy full police protection.
On Friday, a court in Denpasar ...
Belgian experiment: Make prostitution legal to ...
31-May-2005, Belgium, post-gazette
By Dan Bilefsky, The Wall Street Journal
ANTWERP, Belgium -- As the 9 a.m. shift began at Villa Tinto, which calls itself Europe's most high-tech brothel, prostitute Andrea Maes put on her leather boots, pressed her finger on a biometric ...
Profits from selling cocaine make it a lucrative ...
31-May-2005, United States, Winona Daily News
By David Krotz / Winona Daily News
The profits from cocaine are so great that drug dealers have been known to use two and four-engine airplanes on one-way flights into the United States, abandoning the planes once delivery is made.
The ...
High Court to examine medicinal marijuana
29-May-2005, United States, Baltimore Sun
Robert Melamede's guidelines for better living go something like this: Eat right, exercise and smoke a little marijuana.
The biology department chairman at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is among the state's 625 registered legal ...
Oliver Stone in LA drugs arrest
28-May-2005, United States, BBC News
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone has been arrested for drink driving and possession of drugs.
Police said the 58-year-old film-maker was arrested on Friday night at a police checkpoint on Sunset Boulevard, in Beverly Hills, California. ...
Corby guilty on drugs charges
27-May-2005, Indonesia, CNN.com
Accused Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has been found guilty by an Indonesian court of importing marijuana into Bali.
The panel of three judges sentenced her to 20 years in jail, and fined her 10 million rupiahs ($10,700).
Judge ...
Signs of drug-war shift
27-May-2005, United States, The Christian Science Monitor
Evidence is beginning to build that the approach to the war on drugs in the United States could be changing - by shifting attention away from small-time drug dealers and individual users toward major drug traffickers.
The nation's drug czar, for ...
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