News tagged with illegal drug


Risky business: Stressed men more likely to gamble

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stressed out, dude? Don't go to Vegas.


Pseudoephedrine no boost to performance

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many top-level cyclists may be putting their health at risk for no competitive gain by taking pseudoephedrine, according to new research.





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Tracking community-wide drug use by testing water at sewage treatment plants

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists in Oregon and Washington State are reporting the development and successful testing of a new method for determining the extent of illicit drug use in entire communities from water flushed down toilets that enters ...


Puerto Rican dairy injunction issued

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 14, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An injunction has been issued against two Puerto Rican dairies because of alleged drug residue found in cows, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.


Greeks to register prepaid cell phones

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Greece's prepaid mobile phone users will now have to register their identities in a bid to tackle illegal immigration and other crime, the communications minister said Tuesday.


Label for first homoeopathic product may be illegal, warns senior scientist

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 3

The labelling for the first homoeopathic product to get a licence from the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) should be illegal, because they breach Unfair Trading regulations, argues a senior scientist ...


'All-natural' sex pill contains Viagra chemical: FDA

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

The US food and drug safety watchdog warned Thursday that an over-the-counter men's sex aid, labeled as all-natural, contains a chemical similar to the active ingredient in Viagra and could be dangerous.


Ecstasy use up as methamphetamine levels off

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

An increase in the use of ecstasy may be due to the outlawing of the party pill drug BZP and the bad reputation of P, according to the latest findings of the illicit drugs monitoring work done by Massey University researchers.


Survey: Drug use increases in U.S. schools

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 16, 2007 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Columbia University study suggests 16 million U.S. high school and middle school students attend drug-infested schools.


Drug abuse accounts for a third of the deaths behind Scotland's higher mortality rate

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 23, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Drug abuse accounts for a third of the deaths behind Scotland's higher mortality rate, according to a study published on bmj.com today.


Feds to issue new medical marijuana policy (AP)

Feds to stop prosecuting medical marijuana users (Update)

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(AP) -- Pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued by ...


National anti-gun violence program largely successful, study finds

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Project Safe Neighborhoods - a community-based policing effort launched in 2001 - has been largely successful in its goal of reducing violent crime, according to an analysis by Michigan State University, the national research ...



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