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Grand Rapids Baby Ingests Crack Cocaine; Mom Temporarily Loses Custody

...  from 2,411 to 2,275 in 2010/11. A breakdown of users by age has shown in the same … Read more on East Anglian Daily Times Sir Dave Brailsford: cyclists' doping spread like a joint to crack cocaine Sir Dave… Continue reading

Number of Heroin and Crack Cocaine Users Falls to Record Low, Figures Show

...  of heroin and crack cocaine users falls to record low, figures show The NTA says the treatment system has "helped to shrink the pool of heroin and crack addicts" by getting increasing numbers into treatment and effectively taking them… Continue reading

Bowie and Me

...  and me He told me, "You won't understand the lyrics. I wrote it for the American market. …. I bought a bowl and by the time I got home it had cracked." It was the least esoteric …. But… Continue reading

Cricketer Who Died on Railway Line Was High on Drugs and Alcohol, Inquest Told

...  who died on railway line was high on drugs and alcohol, inquest told The cocaine residues showed "an abuse level of cocaine use", forensic scientist Fiona Perry told the inquest. Maynard, who joined Surrey from Glamorgan in 2011, was… Continue reading

Legalising Drugs Would Be the Perfect Tory Policy

...  drugs would be the perfect Tory policy Yet there has always been a free-thinking strand of the American right that opposed prohibition on principle, while it was two Democratic presidents, in Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, who admitted using… Continue reading

Drug-Testing in Football: How Does It Work and Does It Go Far Enough?

...  in football: how does it work and does it go far enough? The FA argues it goes further than the Wada code, testing for social and recreational drugs such as cannabis and cocaine "out of competition", rather than solely… Continue reading