1 in 3 Pregnant Women Drink Alcohol Study Finds

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It seems like birth defects and mental disability is on the rise, and this may be one likely cause: According to the Telegraph.co.uk 1/3 of pregnant women secretly drink alcohol. They report that:
Experts say one in every 100 [...]

New Device for Testing Heroin

As if heroin isn’t deadly enough, users must often be concerned with the purity of the drug itself.  Since everyone is looking to make a profit, drugs are often impure, sometimes “cut” with substances that combine for a deadly cocktail.  With this in mind Spanish scientists are working on a method of testing heroin for [...]

India’s Emerging Drug Problem

While I guess it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, it was interesting to realize that India is also struggling with a prescription drug problem.  Counterfeit prescriptions are making their way into the market, and though that market isn’t being described as currently very large, apparently the ability exists for it to become so.
The [...]

Baby Boomer Drug Use Goes Sky High…No Pun Intended

Are you a “Baby Boomer?”  If you answered “yes” to that question, I have another for you: What do you and your children most likely have in common?  If you answered “pot,” not only are you right, but you are also a very troubled individual.  The scary thing is that as boomers age in record [...]

Ryan O’Neal’s Lawyers Must Think we are Stupid

Well if he isn’t beating the crap out of his kids, shooting at people, or producing offspring with equally messed up lives, what is Ryan O’Neal doing?
-Meth.
The recently arrested actor has started a legal fight regarding the meth found in his home in September. Here is a summation of the charge against O’Neal.

Actor Ryan [...]

Singer Michael Arrested With Crack

A brief note to George Michael:
Dear George,
Stay out of public restrooms.
Sincerely Yours,
The Public
Well if you haven’t heard by now, the former Wham/solo “artist” known as George Michael was arrested, again, in a toilet…again. Now I know what you’re thinking: “That George, when will he ever learn to stop soliciting sex from Police Officers,” but [...]

Another Reason Not to Do Heroin…as if you Needed Another.

Well if you were looking to score a little heroin over the weekend in Scotland, I hope you reconsidered. As if heroin wasn’t deadly enough, a contaminated batch has hit the streets. Two people, both around 30, were found dead in Scotland, apparently from the same batch of contaminated heroin.
This gets me thinking. [...]

DUI Murderer. Kill 27 and Have Your Freedom?

If you have never heard of the Carrollton bus collision, I highly recommend you check out Wikipedia’s article on it. Without getting into too much detail, let me ask you a question. What prison term (or otherwise) would you sentence a man to, who, after driving down the wrong lane kills 27 [...]

Are Drug Laws Racist?

A 2001 article by Reuters said the following:
In a petition to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the signatories said the US war on drugs was “not a war on plants and chemicals, but on citizens and other human beings who all too often are members of racial and ethnic minorities.”
Whites use as [...]

The Chains of Addiction

I have been somewhat fascinated by the untimely death of Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley.  My first remembrance of him is actually my brother’s ex-girlfriend saying something to the effect of, “oh my God, he is so hot.”  Her position seems odd and ironic looking back on it.  At the time he was at [...]