Drug Issue Is Focus of Monessen Public Forum

Published February 27, 2013

Drug issue is focus of Monessen public forum
30 titled “Drugs: Our Valley's most pressing issue,” discussing how “hard drugs” such as heroin, oxycodone, cocaine and methamphetamines are ruining lives and threatening the welfare and security of a once-comfortable home to respectable, law-abiding … Read more on Tribune-Review

Police: Man intoxicated on Four Loko, cocaine stabs CVS employee
The clerk, 68-year-old Donald McKay, was treated at Bayfront Medical Center for multiple stab wounds. He was released earlier Monday. Investigators said they determined Guerrero was on cocaine, synthetic drugs and Four Loko, which is a drink containing … Read more on Bay News 9

C. Everett Koop dies at 96; former US surgeon general
He followed up in 1988 with the landmark report "The Health Consequences of Smoking-Nicotine Addiction," which equated nicotine addiction with addiction to cocaine and heroin. The report cited the links between smoking and a variety of cancers … Read more on Los Angeles Times