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      The needle and the damage undone

      Posted by Billbar from Salon

      Three years ago, Vancouver opened a bold new front in the eternal war on drugs. In a downtown neighborhood notorious for street addicts, healthcare workers began welcoming clients into a new "safe injection site," a legal facility for users of illegal narcotics such as heroin and cocaine. The Insite program has saved hundreds of lives. It has wiped away much of the drug use in the surrounding streets, while increasing the number of addicts seeking treatment and rehabilitation. Some local conservatives, once fierce opponents of the injection site, are now backing it. And supporters believe the site's success will prove a beachhead for a less punitive and more humane war on drugs extending across Canada -- and even to drug-troubled cities south of the Canadian border.

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    • Fake Drugs Among Purchases Linked to Canadian Firm

      Posted by Billbar from Washington Post

      Testing has found fake versions of Lipitor and other widely used prescription drugs in orders purchased through Web sites linked to a Canadian pharmacy, the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday. U.S. officials have intercepted and seized thousands of prescriptions filled by the pharmacy in recent months, FDA Associate Commissioner Randall Lutter said.

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      DEA's new propaganda campaign links drugs and terror

      Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from Washington Post

      It’s gotta be pretty difficult for the DEA to try to link Bin Laden to drugs when the 9/11 Commission report says “there is no reliable evidence that Bin Ladin was involved in or made his money through drug trafficking.” The Students for Sensible Drug Policy’s website that debunks the DEA’s claims

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    • Stupid drug story of the week: Mothball abuse

      Posted by Billbar from Slate

      The girls had inhaled the fumes, also know as "huffing" or "bagging," and one ate the balls as well. Doctors discovered the active substance in mothballs, paradichlorobenzene, in the young patient's bloodstream. How common is paradichlorobenzene self-intoxication? The doctors discovered only three other cases of it the medical literature, dating back to 1961, 1970, and 1992. From this slim medical anecdote, the world press has created a drug panic. Among the first news organizations to post a sensationalized account of the story was the Reuters wire service, which titled its July 26 report "Teenagers Using Mothballs Get High: Study." Yes, teenagers are using mothballs to get high if two young ladies in Marseille constitute a sufficient population to establish a meaningful medical plural. The next day, CNN.com International published a version of the Reuters story under the headline "Teenagers 'Bagging' Mothballs to Get High." Canada's CBC News Web site headlined a derivative account of the story, "Teens Sniffing Mothballs to Get High, Doctors Report." The Aussie press developed a contact high from the story: "Teens Get High on Mothballs," screamed the country's national daily, the Australian. The Melbourne Herald Sun, the Courier Mail, the Sunday Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Daily Telegraph all combine the words "teens" and "mothballs" in their headlines to announce the plague.

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    • Legalizing Drugs Lowers Crime

      Posted by Billbar from Hawaii Reporter

      The Czech Republic is the only country in the world where adult citizens can legally use, possess and grow small quantities of marijuana. It has no problems with Cocaine or meth. The Czech overall drug arrest rate is 1 per 100,000 population. The United States' overall drug arrest rate is 585 per 100,000 population.

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      EnviroHealth: How the Drug Companies Want Us to Be Sick

      Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from Alternet

      The medicalization of American life is continuing apace. Ordinary sexual functions are redefined as treatable medical conditions, diseases are over-diagnosed and over-prescribed, advertising glosses over the side effects of drugs and more people are made insecure by corporate propaganda designed to lure them into purchasing medication.

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