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 Mexico Grapples with Drug Addiction
 Ken Ellingwood
Long a corridor for narcotics headed for the U.S., Mexico is now contending with its own addiction problem, as U.S. border controls push traffickers to look elsewhere.
We Will Not Allow Mexican Children to Become Enslaved by Drugs: President Calderón
 Presidencia de la República
Addressing hundreds of children in the Adolfo López Mateos Hall at the official Los Pinos Residence, President Felipe Calderón declared that his government will not allow a new form of slavery, namely drug use, to be established in Mexico.
India Embraces Smoke-Free Policies on Gandhi's Birthday
 Bobby Ramakant
Since October 2, 2008, the 139th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's birth, India has been enforcing smoke-free policies, which ban smoking in public and in private areas with public access, to protect non-smokers from exposure to secondhand smoke.
Cannabis Less Harmful than Drinking, Smoking: Report
 Agence France-Presse
Cannabis is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco, according to a report by a research charity Thursday, which called for a "serious rethink" of drug policy.
Mexico Seeks to Decriminalize Small-Time Drug Use
 Miguel Angel Gutierrez
Mexican President Felipe Calderon , locked in a bloody battle with drug cartels, wants to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of street drugs in a plan likely to irk Washington.
Do 'Light' Cigarettes Deliver Less Nicotine to the Brain?
 Mark Wheeler
For decades now, cigarette makers have marketed so-called light cigarettes — which contain less nicotine than regular smokes — with the implication that they are less harmful to smokers' health. A new UCLA study shows, however, that they deliver nearly as much nicotine to the brain.
New Mexico Man Loses Round in Smoking Ban Fight
 Deborah Baker
Stephen Brown was so opposed to New Mexico's ban on smoking in public places that he got himself cited for lighting up in a Catron County bar just minutes after the new law took effect.
Youths' Drug of Choice? Prescription
 Melissa Healy
Baby boomers made marijuana their 'gateway' - and some still can't let go, a report says - but a younger generation finds prescription drugs are an easier score.
Hallucinogen’s Popularity May Thwart Medical Use
 Kevin Sack & Brent McDonald
Until a decade ago, the use of salvia was largely limited to those seeking revelation under the tutelage of Mazatec shamans in its native Oaxaca, Mexico. Today, this mind-altering member of the mint family is broadly available for lawful sale online and in head shops across the United States.
When Sex Becomes an Addiction
 Elizabeth Landau
"Californication" star David Duchovny made headlines for voluntarily entering rehab last week. But it wasn't for drugs or alcohol. It was for another dependency, one that affects millions of Americans but is seldom discussed: sex addiction.
U.S. Drug Users: Main Cause for Mexico’s Bloodbath
 Patrick Osio Jr.
The American media's coverage of the narcoviolence taking place in Mexico paints a picture of lawlessness and corruption, with no regard for the American policies and drug market that made it that way.
San Diego: Meth Is Difficult To Get
 Ruzanna Haroutiunyan
San Diego officials reported that meth is now more difficult to get in the area. The report comes from analysis of a survey conducted among 764 arrested men and women who were questioned about drugs.
Learn the Dangers of Substance Abuse
 GateHouse News Service
Enrique Camarena worked his way through college, served in the Marines and became a police officer. When he chose to join the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration his mother begged him not to. His response to her: “I’m only one person, but I want to make a difference.”
Illicit Drug Retail Sales up with Ever More Mexican Users
 Patrick Corcoran
In regard to drug policy, the dominant image of Mexico is a trampoline, bouncing tons of cocaine and marijuana across the border to eager American users. There’s more than a kernel of truth to this picture; the combination of American demand and Mexican supply has turned the latter nation into the most violent trampoline on earth.
Non-Smoking Drug Endangering Soldiers' Health
 American News Project
In VA hospitals a non-smoking drug Chantix is given to veterans to help them quit smoking. This even after the FDA, drug maker Pfizer and the VA itself found the drug to have serious risks, including suicidal behavior.
Drug Addicts Benefit From HIV Drugs, Too: Study
 Tan Ee Lyn
Drug abusers benefit just as much from HIV drugs as people who are infected sexually or some other way, Canadian researchers reported on Sunday.
Mexico's Drug Problem
 Frontera NorteSur
A growing number of reports from Mexico paint a far more complex picture of the drug problem than the one conveyed by Mexican authorities. Nowadays, Mexico is an important consumer of illegal drugs.
Survey of Hispanics and Alcohol Dependence to Be Expanded to U.S.-Mexico Border Population
 WebWire
A large survey conducted by researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health Dallas Regional Campus, which examined alcohol abuse and dependence among Hispanic male populations in the United States, will be expanded to Mexican males living along the U.S.-Mexico border.
More Than 1,000 Fentanyl Deaths Tracked to Mexican Drug Operation
 Megha Satyanarayana
More than 1,000 deaths linked to the painkiller fentanyl were reported nationally during a two-year span, traced to a drug operation in Mexico, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Drug Addiction Soars in Mexico
 Chris Hawley
The new border fence and intensified patrols by both Mexican and U.S. federal agents have made it harder for Mexican cartels to get drugs into the USA. As a result, more narcotics remain in Mexico where they are sold to local consumers.
Semi-Synthetic Narcotics Facts
 Narconon of Georgia
"The narcotic drugs that cause the most addictions are the semi-synthetics: heroin, hydromorphone, oxycodone, and hydrocodone," states Mary Rieser, Executive Director for Narconon Drug Rehab in Georgia.
Secondhand Smoke: A Plan to Make it Disappear
 Jody Cross
The CDC estimates that in 2007 the percentage of people in the United States who still smoked was below 20 percent. France and Ireland, countries with strong smoking cultures, have successfully gone smoke-free; and it is the goal of the American Lung Association that the U.S. be smoke-free by 2010.
Legal Drug Under Scrutiny
 Brian Shane
Used for hundreds of years by indigenous Mexican tribesmen to induce visions, the hallucinogenic herb Salvia divinorum has been banned as a Schedule I drug in 10 states since 2005 - including Delaware and Virginia - with a dozen other states mulling legislation that would outlaw its use.
Americans Are World's Top Drug Users
 Agence France-Presse
Americans are the world's top consumers of cannabis and cocaine despite punitive US drug laws, according to an international study published in the online scientific magazine PLoS Medicine.
UN: Opium Trade Soars in Afghanistan
 Colum Lynch
Afghanistan's emergence as the world's largest supplier of opium and heroin represents a serious setback to the U.S. policy in the region. The opium trade has soared since the U.S.-led 2001 overthrow of the Taliban, which had eradicated almost all of the country's opium poppies in 2001.
President Calderón Launches National Information Campaign Against Addictions
 Presidencia de la República
President Felipe Calderón and his wife Margarita Zavala announced the National Information Campaign for a New Life to tell all Mexicans what they can and must do to prevent children and young people from succumbing to drug addiction.
Employers Blood Testing To Stop Smokers
 Rocky Mountain News
Howard Weyers tried the "carrot" approach by giving his employees incentives and encouragement to quit smoking. But when that didn't work, he resorted to the stick. A big stick.
Western Hemisphere's Only Heroin Maintenance Program Coming to an End
 Drug War Chronicle
Every day for 15 months, Vancouver heroin addict Rob Scott Vincent, 36, went into a nondescript building on the city's Downtown Eastside where a nurse would hand him a syringe loaded with pharmaceutical grade heroin.
Top 10 Tips to Stop Smoking
 Andrea Lindsay
You know your reasons for why you want to be a non smoker. All smokers know that smoking can kill, if it was as simple as knowing that, I don’t suppose anyone would smoke.
Kabul's New Drug Crisis
 The Real Network
Afghanistan, which already faces a huge drug addiction crisis, must now confront a new challenge - addicts deported from Iran and Pakistan threatening to swamp its meagre rehabilitation resources.
Addict: Can Get Meth From 'Ice Cream Trucks'
 KCRA.com
Every day 110,000 people cross the border into the U.S. from Mexico in San Ysirdo, Calif., and anyone of them could be smuggling in illegal drugs. Right now, the federal government considers Mexico to be ground zero in the war on methamphetamine.
Prescription Drug Abuse Surging
 United Press International
Healthcare workers and dishonest patients are filling U.S. streets with potentially addictive prescription medications, officials say. Also contributing to the problem are pharmacy thefts, robberies and burglaries.
The $20 Pack
 Tim Harford
Would smokers prefer that cigarettes be expensive? Certainly, higher cigarette prices would make smokers healthier. There is plenty of evidence that smoking is very bad for you, and almost as much evidence that people smoke fewer cigarettes if they are expensive. But "healthy smokers" are not the same thing as happy smokers.
Sleeping Giant of Drug Abuse
 Claire Buckis
On the brink of suicide and feeling that her life had reeled out of her control, Carmel, a mother of three, aged in her 40s, begged her doctor for a prescription to tranquillisers. When she took one soon after, it was a revelation.
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