2 parole agents face drug charges

Two state parole agents are each facing up to nearly two years behind bars and a $15,000 fine after an all-night party last year in which prosecutors say they bought and used cocaine with three men, including one who was on probation at the time.

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Israeli neo-Nazi ring busted

Israeli police have arrested a cell of young Jewish neo-Nazis accused in a string of attacks on foreign workers, Jews, drug addicts and gays.

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WWE Wrestling Drug Testing Designed To Allow Cheating

AMERICA’S most prominent wrestling writer has labeled the WWE’s drug testing program “more fishy than even the most skeptical would have believed.” He says the WWE designed the program with a loophole to allow wrestlers to fake testosterone deficiency to continue taking steroids, and that an inside source says EVERYONE in the WWE uses steroids.

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Statins Cause Amnesia? Don't Forget to Take Your Lipitor ... [huh?]

"Anti-cholesterol medications have been heralded as miracle drugs by both doctors and patients. But there may be a dark side to the miracle. More than a dozen clinical studies and thousands of patient reports say statins are capable of causing severe cognitive disruptions that can wreak chaos in patients' lives for months, even years."

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Court Strikes Down "Crack Tax"; State Can Tax Sin, But Not Crime

The Tennessee Court of Appeals on Thursday invalidated the state's "Crack Tax" (a tax on persons in possession of drugs, not on plumbers).

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Helen Zille Arrested By Silly Policemen

Cape Town mayor and leader of the official opposition, Helen Zille, was bizarrely arrested after taking part in a legal protest against drug abuse.

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Pit Bull Problem in Ohio: Video Evidence of Dog Fighting Ring, Drugs, . . .

A neighborhood threatened [ Youngstown, OH ] . . . fearing the pit bull could lunge at any moment the humane authorities had to dart it with tranquilizer gun.Video shows the dog on a porch roof of the home, drug paraphernalia , ammo, and evidence of a dog fighting ring.

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Sex, Love, and SSRIs

Doctors have been grappling with sexual dysfunction since SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) were introduced in the 1980s. Approximately 70 percent of people taking SSRIs suffer from sexual side effects. But these drugs may also compromise the ability to feel love.

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Pete Dohery Drugs His Cat

Pete Doherty getting his cat high in the pic. He specially made a miniature crack pipe, and I'm dead serious! One of Pete's friends told The Sun:

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China reports leap in new HIV/AIDS cases

China reported 18,543 new cases of HIV/AIDS in the first half of this year, state media said, near the number for the whole of 2006. Drug abuse was the main cause of new infections, Xinhua news agency quoted Han Mengjie, an...

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WWE Wrestling Drug Testing Designed To Allow Cheating

AMERICA’S most prominent wrestling writer has labeled the WWE’s drug testing program “more fishy than even the most skeptical would have believed.” He says the WWE designed the program with a loophole to allow wrestlers to fake testosterone deficiency to continue taking steroids, and that an inside source says EVERYONE in the WWE uses steroids.

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Medical and Surgical Treatments Available for Sleep Apnea Suffers

Medical and Surgical Treatments Available for Sleep Apnea Suffers by Heather Colman Few drug-based treatments of obstructive sleep apnea are known despite over two decades of research and tests.Oral administration of the methylxanthine theophylline (chemically similar to caffeine) can reduce th

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Thomas Ravenel Blows

If Ravenel was involved in drugs those around him knew about it just like those around Strom Thurmond knew he was banging on the side. And no one said a word.

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Drugs Banned, World’s Poor Suffer in Pain

Fear about addiction leads millions of people to go without pain medicines that are safe, effective and cheap.

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South London squirrels addicted to crack

Squirrels in south London could have become addicted to crack cocaine, say residents of Brixton, who suggest the rodents have dug up drugs buried by dealers or nibbled residues of crack on pipes and vials discarded by addicts.

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DEA: Terror groups raise funds through drugs

Nearly half of the 42 groups considered by the United States to be terror organisations fund their activities through drug trafficking, a top US official said in Israel Sunday. The Drug Enforcement Administration's Michael Braun told a conference on "The Global Impact of Terrorism", organised by the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism...

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Secular Conservative? End The War on Drugs? Stop Abortion? Anti-War!

Getting to know your political talking Head...Anti-War, Secular, Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, Fiscal Conservative, End The Iraq War And The War on Drugs (more) (less)Category News & PoliticsTags: Primary Democrat Republican Ron Paul Clinton Obama Edwards Guiliani Romney S

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Drugs Banned, World's Poor Suffer in Pain

Fear about addiction leads millions of people to go without pain medicines that are safe, effective and cheap.

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Tommy Lee & Kidd Rock Fight

Don't let the drug use, spousal abuse, jail time, sex tapes, and "MAYHEM" tattoo stamped across his stomach fool you - public perception of Tommy Lee boils down to a trite Rock 'n Roll stereotype. I wondered what could have happened to make a class act like Tommy get escorted out of the MTV Music Awards?

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Afghan poppy industry eludes U.S. control

In a small district in southern Afghanistan, U.S.-backed Afghan drug forces opened fire on farmers who were blocking roads and throwing rocks to protest the destruction of their poppy fields earlier this year. Scores were injured in the firefight.Undeterred by the violence, a group of angry farmers gathered around Masood Azizi, the Afghan official

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How the war on drugs increases suffering in poor nations.

The war on drugs, and other “noble” policies favored by the politicians inflicts needless pain, often literally, on the poor of the world. Wealthy westerners can buy their way out of the costs inflict by politicians, the poor just suffer.

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Doctors Prescribe Antidepressants for Babies

Thousands of antidepressant drugs prescriptions are annually given for children under 10, according to the figures provided by the national drug buying agency Pharmac.

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Breakthrough for Spine Injuries

Each year in the United States, about 11,000 people suffer a spinal cord injury. Recent research shows what happens in the first few days following an injury can have a big impact on how well patients recover. Now, there is a new drug that could facilitate a patient’s recovery even more.

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Another MLB Steroid Case: O's Gibbons received banned drugs

According to information obtained by SI, Gibbons received shipments of performance-enhancing steroids and human growth hormone (HGH) from an Orlando-based compound pharmacy raided last spring as part of a multi-agency bust, even after both drugs were on Major League Baseball's banned substance list.

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Drugs a possible motive in gangland-style nightclub killing

POLICE say they are not ruling out drugs as a motive in the gangland-style killing of a 29-year-old Wollongong man on the weekend.Dragan Sekuljica was shot dead at the north Wollongong Novotel hotel's nightclub on Saturday morning.

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Chip implants linked to animal tumors

Here is the full text of the AP's cancer chip article, with pictures... When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved implanting microchips in humans, the manufacturer said it would save lives, letting doctors scan the tiny transponders to access patients' medical records almost instantly.

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Do you feel that celebrities who do drugs should be boycotted

this is a bets go wild bet, so cost's you nothing, however is a good way to see public opinion. There has been quite a hoo ha in the press recently with celebrities parents wanting them to be boycotted to get them to seek help with their addiction. How do you feel about it, show it with a bet!

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Teenagers Take A Stand

People say teenagers don't learn at school? People say we don't bother and watch TV all the time whilst filling our face, or maybe there is the excuse we are doing drugs! well there is a group of people that have a aim in there life and they want to go into computing so now a group of my friends are now creating a forum for all ages!

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