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Colleges Confront Misuse of Prescription Drugs
- By Join Together
- Published 03/10/2010
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College prevention programs used to dealing with alcohol and illicit
drugs are devoting more attention to drugs like Ritalin and Adderral,
but with limited success. Richard Clark, director of medical toxicology
at the University of California at San Diego, said that the drugs are
being used as mood-lifters and appetite suppressants as well as to
improve concentration.
Marijuana classes are on a roll
- By News Services
- Published 03/2/2010
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This school doesn't have a problem with students not paying attention. "They're
paying us to come, and our classes are full," says Jeff Jones,
chancellor of the Los Angeles branch of Oaksterdam University, where
students learn the business of marijuana from seed to ash. Attitudes
are changing as 14 states now have laws allowing some form of legal
marijuana use with a doctor's recommendation. And with legalization
comes a growing cannabis industry.
Women Who Smoke Marijuana During Pregnancy May Put Babies at Risk
- By Join Together
- Published 02/1/2010
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Fetal growth and development may be impaired when pregnant women smoke
marijuana, according to new research from the Netherlands. Reuters
reported Jan. 22 that researchers studied 7,000 pregnant women,
including some who acknowledged smoking marijuana during pregnancy, and
found that babies delivered by marijuana users weighed less at birth
and had smaller heads.
Medical Marijuana Frees People From Painkiller Addiction
- By Misc Author
- Published 01/29/2010
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On Wednesday, dozens of former addicts made the tough decision to share
their stories publicly, doing so before news cameras and a
standing-room only crowd. The admissions were not without irony. It
was, after all, a federally prohibited drug, according to the patients
who spoke, that freed them from their addictions to far more lethal --
though legal -- prescription narcotics.
U.S. High School Seniors’ Perception of Harm from Regular Marijuana Use Decreasing
- By Center for Substance Abuse Research
- Published 01/22/2010
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Twelfth graders’ perceived risk of harm from regular marijuana use has
declined in recent years, according to data from the national
Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey.
A Doctor's Case For Legal Pot
- By Misc Author
- Published 01/20/2010
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Most Americans are paying too much for marijuana. I'm not referring to
people who smoke it—using the drug generally costs about as much as
using alcohol. Marijuana is unaffordable for the rest of America
because billions are wasted on misdirected drug education and
distracted law enforcement, and we also fail to tax the large
underground economy that supplies cannabis.
USC trainers fed football coach's painkiller addiction
- By News Services
- Published 01/18/2010
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An assistant football coach at the University of Southern California
has provided legal statements saying he received painkillers from team
doctors to feed his addictions. Dave Watson says he was up-front
with head coach Pete Carroll, now heading back to the NFL, about his
addiction. He says he was allowed to keep his job and even use a
vehicle provided by the school. This admission came in February of
2008, before Watson was involved in an at-fault accident just a few
months later.
Marijuana legalization bill approved by key Assembly committee
- By News Services
- Published 01/13/2010
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A proposal to legalize and tax marijuana in California was approved by
a key committee of the Assembly on Tuesday, but it is not expected to
get further consideration by the Legislature until next year. Despite
a procedural glitch, backers hailed the committee's action as historic
because it represented the first legislative approval of the proposal.
Legalize Marijuana to Protect Our (Adult) Kids, Some Calif. Moms Say
- By Join Together
- Published 01/12/2010
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Some "soccer moms" in California say that they would support marijuana
legalization so that their adult children don't have to run the risk of
buying drugs on the street, according to recent polls. Backers of the initiative have collected more than enough signatures to get the measure on the ballot.
A new high: Abuse of prescription drugs now surpasses illegal narcotics
- By News Services
- Published 12/28/2009
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With the proliferation of Internet pharmacies that dispense drugs
without a prescription; doctor shopping, where patients go to multiple
doctors to get the same medication; and prescription fraud, where blank
prescriptions are stolen and filled out by addicts who try to pass them
at pharmacies, the face of the drug addict increasingly is one that people might find in their bathroom mirror.

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