With a few drops of a liquid hallucinogen under his tongue and the smell of incense in the air, Texas resident Frank Ramirez says he can transport himself to a different world. Eyes shut and legs crossed, he first feels warm and flushed. Then the rush of the drug swirls into his head and, Ramirez says, he becomes “one with the room,” able to see and talk with long-deceased relatives.
“Sometimes I cry or laugh,” Ramirez says. “It’s a spiritual trip. Read the rest of this entry »
the global economy collapsing all around us, the last issue US President Barack Obama wants to talk about is the ongoing War on Drugs. But if he doesn’t, and fast, he may well have two collapsed and haemorrhaging countries on his hands. The first lies in the distant mountains of Afghanistan. The second is right next door, on the other side of the Rio Grande.
Here’s a starter for 10 about where this war has led us. Where in the world Read the rest of this entry »
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) – Police in New Bedford have arrested a man who they called a drug dealing entrepreneur, after finding drugs, guns and cash hidden inside a secret compartment of his car.
“He was moving the drugs into the city. He was selling the drugs,” said Lt. Jeffrey P. Silva, New Bedford Police Department.
Angel Olmeda, who police believe may be in the country illegally, was arraigned Thursday morning and charged on drug trafficking Read the rest of this entry »
The DuPage County Sheriff’s Department tactical narcotics team arrested 106 people and seized $5.5 million worth of drugs last year, the department announced.
Most of the drugs were seized at one time when detectives grabbed 33 pounds of cocaine worth $4.5 million and arrested five people at a home in Aurora that police said was a distribution point for large cocaine sales in Kane and DuPage Counties.
In all last year, the task force confiscated Read the rest of this entry »
ATLANTA – People who get multiple doses of pain medicine for the same complaint would have a tougher time going undetected under legislation designed to create a statewide drug database.
Rep. Ron Stephens, R-Savannah, introduced House Bill 273, the Georgia Prescription Monitoring Program Act to make it easier to spot cases where people have gotten multiple prescriptions for federally controlled pain medications.
It’s designed to catch two kinds Read the rest of this entry »
SALEM – A raid was conducted Monday afternoon at the home
of a city man who heroically saved the life of a young child
a year ago this month. He was arrested on various drug
charges.
Once lauded by county freeholders for rescuing a 3-month-old
boy from the window of a burning building, 32-year-old Terry
Mercado was charged by authorities Monday for possession and
distribution of cocaine as well as for possession of drug
paraphernalia.
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Doctors have known that some children and adolescents taking stimulant medications for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder experience psychiatric symptoms from the drugs, such as hallucinations, hearing voices, paranoia and mania. In 2007, the Food and Drug Administration ordered manufacturers of stimulant medications to add new warnings about psychiatric and cardiovascular side effects to package inserts. And patient medication guides are also Read the rest of this entry »
A drug used for stroke patients may help sharpen middle-aged brains, researchers are reporting.
If proven in humans, the drug may one day help blunt the impact of normal aging “or even enhance learning and memory throughout the life span,” the American Psychological Association said in an announcing the findings, published in the February issue of the journal, Behavioral Neuroscience.
“I do think that we are going to move into that area,” says Read the rest of this entry »
Prosecutors: Debt, drugs led to Fla. killings
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Two men accused in the execution-style shooting deaths of a family along Florida’s Turnpike were settling drug debts and stealing cocaine when they ambushed the couple and their two boys, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday.
Daniel Troya and Ricardo Sanchez Jr., both 25, are charged with armed carjacking resulting in deaths, conspiracy, weapons counts and drug offenses. Read the rest of this entry »
It was in March, in the drizzle, that I realized my brain was burned out. Like a rusty engine, I could hear it chug-chug and splutter – but it would never quite start running at top speed. I had just come back from a rough month-long work-trip to Bangladesh, and I had an Everest of work in front of me. It was all fascinating, and all urgent – but I was plodding though it at half my normal speed. I needed to be performing at my best; instead I was Read the rest of this entry »