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• What’s In Your Water?

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 141
  Recent news out of the State of Minnesota reports that bong water is now classified as an illegal drug. That’s right, bong water . Minnesota’s Supreme Court now says a person can be prosecuted for a first-degree drug crime for 25 grams (not milliliters?) or more of bong water that tests positive for a ...
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• The Health Risks Associated With The Use Of Anabolic Steroids

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  Anabolic steroids are classed as illegal drugs and are banned by most legitimate sports organizations. There can be no disputing the fact that testosterone boosts the development of muscle mass and aids sporting performance. Equally there is no doubt that its use can adversely affect the health and wellbeing of ...
  1 week ago

• Has Alan Johnson made a hash of his leadership bid?

  
  Britology Watch: Deconstructing 'British Values' — Authority: 411
  No smoke without fire, as they say; or, in this instance, no smoking gun without getting your enemy to shoot themselves in the foot by firing someone they shouldn’t! I’m getting into this conspiracy malarkey! When I first heard the news that Home Secretary Alan Johnson had taken the ill-advised decision to sack ...
  1 week ago

• Link Between Stress-Induced Changes In Brain Circuitry And Cocaine Relapse

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Stress-evoked changes in circuits that regulate serotonin in certain parts of the brain can precipitate a low mood and a relapse in cocaine-seeking, based on mouse studies published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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• The Prohibition of illicit drugs is a foolish war against comparatively harmless substances.

  
  ORGANIZED RAGE — Authority: 422
  Otherwise intelligent people, on reaching high political office, often seem pre-programmed to abandon independent thought and end up behaving like imbeciles;  others might be less generous and regard such folk as lackeys of powerful forces with the power to lobby central government successfully.  Members ...
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• Jason Shih, Corzine Staffer Cover Up?

  
  David Drake — Authority: 426
  Jason Shih was arrested for possession of Ecstasy . NJ.com : Jason Shih, 25, was pulled over on Route 17 by East Rutherford police around 11:30 p.m. Friday for allegedly talking on his cell phone. Police found 19 Ecstasy tablets and hundreds of small glassine bags used for distributing drugs, police ...
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• Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by C.I.A.

  
  PID News — Authority: 138
  KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.The agency pays ...
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• Andre Agassi is still my hero

  
  Niki Cheong — Authority: 471
  I took up tennis in my early teens, around the same time Andre Agassi won his first Grand Slam. Now, I wouldn’t say that he was the cause for my interest in the game. After all, we didn’t have Astro then, and I’ve barely watched a tennis game. Still, I do remember reading all these articles about the bad boy of ...
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• LSD and cannabis less harmful than alcohol, says UK govt’s drug expert

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  London, Oct 29 (ANI): In what could come as a rude shock to many alcoholics and smokers, the British government’s drug adviser has said that drugs like Ecstasy, LSD and cannabis are less harmful than alcohol and cigarettes.Criticising former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s decision to rate cannabis as a Class B ...
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• Alcohol Depression: The Bottle May be Increasing the Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  Alcohol depression is very grave and should not be one?s state of living, however just how one can overcome this form of depression could be quite challenging as two factors are being addressed here: a substance abuse and an emotional disturbance.Dealing with depression means at the moment you may not be feeling too ...
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• Driven To Drink By Your Genes

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Your genetic make up may predispose you to drink more but may not increase your genetic risk for alcoholism (alcohol dependence). Research published in the open access journal, BMC Biology, pinpoints genetic pathways and genes associated with levels of alcohol consumption but not with alcohol dependence in rats and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Examining Genetic Variations Among The Huichol Population Of Mexico

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Alcohol abuse is a leading cause of liver cirrhosis in Mexico.
  2 weeks ago

• Alcohol Misuse Among Adolescents

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  While many genetic studies have examined alcoholism among adults, identifying genes that are associated with alcohol misuse during youth is equally important, given that genetic and environmental influences on alcoholism vary across development. New findings show an association between a polymorphism of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Japanese Pop Star, Noriko Sakai, Admits to Drug Use

  
  Blogoncherry — Authority: 517
  Japanese pop star and actress, Noriko Sakai, pleaded guilty Monday to illegal drugs charges and prosecutors demanded 18 months’ jail in a trial that has sparked intense public interest and frenzied media coverage.Noriko Sakai was born on February 14, 1971 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. She married in 1998, ...
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• Packages Of Care For Alcohol Use Disorders In Low- And Middle-Income Countries

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  In the latest article in PLoS Medicines series proposing the delivery of packages of care for mental, neurological and substance-use disorders in low- and middle-income countries, Vivek Benegal and colleagues discuss the treatment of alcohol use disorders in settings where resources are limited.
  2 weeks ago

• Monday Morning JetLawg

  
  JETLawBlog: The Official Blog of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law — Authority: 126
  In the news . . . Musicians use Freedom of Information Act to find out how the government is using their music. The continued battle over net neutrality . New music service being launched by Google, iLike and Lala partnership. Big Brother winner Adam Jasinski uses prize money to buy and sell ...
  2 weeks ago

• Great moments in drug enforcement law

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 646
  Counting the weight of water in reaching for maximum penalties: “The Minnesota Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, has now ruled that Bong Water (water which had been used in a water pipe) was a ‘mixture’ of ‘25 grams or more’ supporting a criminal conviction for Controlled Substance crime in the first ...
  2 weeks ago

• Adolescents Gambling A Part Of A Cluster Of Problem Behaviors

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Ten percent of young adolescent boys -- or one in 10 -- exhibit a symptom of conduct disorder as well as a symptom of risky or problem gambling, according to new research findings from the University at Buffalos Research Institute on Addictions (RIA). As the number of conduct disorder symptoms increase, the number ...
  2 weeks ago

• U.N. Report Documents How Opium Contributes To Spread Of Disease, Deaths

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Wednesday released a report - "Addiction, Crime and Insurgency: The Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium" - documenting how "[t]he smuggling of Afghan opiates is fueling addiction and drug use along trafficking routes from Iran to Central Asia," and contributing to the ...
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• Even Low Alcohol Consumption Has A Negative Impact On Overall Health

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Low alcohol consumption is bad for your health in general. Researchers writing in BioMed Centrals open access journal Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation studied the relationship between alcohol consumption and health to test the current theory which suggests improved health is responsible for the link found ...
  2 weeks ago

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