ADHD Drugs Just Not For Children Anymore
10-May-2005, United States, ABC News
Like dormitories and dining halls, Adderall was something Cory Clair figured he'd leave behind in college. But when he went off the medication and started a new job in January, his mind began wandering at work just as it did in class before he was ...
The War on Pot
10-May-2005, United States, National Review
As the nation's "drug czar," John Walters is supposed to be saving us from the ravages of hard drugs like heroin and cocaine. At least that was the original sales pitch for the "war on drugs" in the 1980s. But the war has evolved into largely a ...
Police 'help smuggle drugs'
09-May-2005, Australia, The Courier-Mail
THE Australian Federal Police have been accused of failing to properly investigate allegations of drug trafficking at domestic airports because serving officers were involved.
The former head of operations for the AFP's internal investigations, ...
Wait Goes on for Cleared Painkiller Case Briton
09-May-2005, United Arab Emirates, Scotsman.com
A British woman cleared by a Dubai court of deliberately carrying banned drugs in her system was left facing a further agonising delay today in her 10-week battle to fly home.
Sports osteopath Tracy Wilkinson was hoping prosecutors in the United ...
Drugs rife at Logies
08-May-2005, Australia, Herald Sun
TELEVISION'S night of nights -- the prestigious Logies -- was awash with a disturbing array of illicit drugs, tests show.
The Sunday Herald Sun said drugs, including cocaine and speed, were found on 14 of 20 tests conducted at the glitzy event. ...
Inside the war on drugs
08-May-2005, United States, Pittsburgh Tribune Review
If a mere 10 percent of Don Winslow's new novel, "The Power of the Dog," were true, it would be horrifying.
"I would flip that ratio," Winslow says.
That 90 percent could be true is nearly unfathomable. "The Power of the Dog" chronicles the ...
Singapore finally finds a voice in death row ...
08-May-2005, Singapore, The Observer
John Aglionby in Singapore
Sunday May 8, 2005
The Observer
The Canton meeting room at Singapore's drab Furama Hotel is an unlikely venue for history to be made. But on Friday night this bland setting hosted an unprecedented event for the ...
California Dreaming: A True Story of Computers, ...
07-May-2005, United States, The New York Times
Engineers can be so cute. In the early 1960's, Myron Stolaroff, an employee of the tape recorder manufacturer Ampex, decided to prove the value of consuming LSD. So he set up the International Foundation for Advanced Study and went about his project ...
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 ...
Kelly: Fat 'worse than drugs' in Hollywood
05-May-2005, Ireland, breakingnews
Kelly Osbourne says the pressure to be thin in Hollywood is "a killer".
The 20-year-old says she suffered more for being fat than for using drugs. She admits that she was doing drugs before The Osbournes debuted on TV, but suddenly hearing she ...
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