Take Back Initiative to Collect Expired, Unused Medication
... Back Initiative to collect expired, unused medication According to the DEA and 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, prescription drugs that languish in home medicine cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse and abuse. Rates of prescription… Continue reading
Drug Abuse a Problem in Phillips, State of Wis.
... that his office is teaming up with law enforcement agencies across the state to fight the prescription drug abuse epidemic. Morrisey says they plan to do this by expanding access to … Read more on WSAZ-TV Marijuana use most… Continue reading
Girls Gone Wild
... gone wild According to NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics data, the number of juvenile female offenders soared by 36 per cent in the decade to June 2009, compared to an 8 per cent increase for juvenile males. There's anecdotal… Continue reading
Anti-Doping: Testing Evolution in Sport
... Testing Evolution in Sport This was principally substances like cocaine, strychnine and amphetamines (although in the case of the latter there were many individual amphetamine-based products that went without a test for several years). …. By 2007 Berglund and… Continue reading
386 Homicides in '12 Drive Detroit's Murder Rate to Worst Since 1980s
... homicides in '12 drive Detroit's murder rate to worst since 1980s Detroit — The city's murder rate took a grim leap upward in 2012, with official crime statistics announced the same day a Detroit woman was charged with fatally… Continue reading
NY Mayor Slams Failure to Enact Tougher Gun Laws After Attack on Cops
... attack on cops Washington's police chief also spoke out on Thursday in favour of tougher gun laws in the United States after statistics showed the homicide rate in the nation's capital at its lowest level in a half-century. Eighty-eight… Continue reading