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What drugs are on the rise in Britain?

Edit The Guardian 03 Jun 2016
So, what other drugs are on the rise in Britain? We asked drug counsellors to tell us about the people they commonly deal with and any spikes in the use of certain substances they have noticed in recent years ... For 30 years I worked for the NHS in Luton in a service that dealt with a range of drug problems, but I left this job at the beginning of the new year ... ‘Drug use has changed a lot over the years....

Push To Crack Down on Drug That Killed Prince Echoes Fight From 1980s

Edit National Public Radio 03 Jun 2016
... call the proposal a "huge step backward." ... Collins said half a gram is so little that, if a prosecutor wanted to build a case against someone who used the drug — like Prince — in theory, that could subject them to a minimum five-year prison term ... has risen "exponentially" over the past two years, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration....

Drug combination may extend pancreas cancer survival, trial finds

Edit The Guardian 03 Jun 2016
But an international team of researchers, led from the University of Liverpool, revealed at the world’s biggest cancer drug conference that their trial has pushed the five-year survival rate from 16% to 29% of patients ... The latest research, presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago, showed the two-drug combination nearly doubles the survival rate again to 29%....

Children's medicine imports to be fast-tracked

Edit China Daily 03 Jun 2016
Most of the drugs have passed clinical tests and been used for years in the three areas, but they have not been available to doctors and patients on the Chinese mainland ... Figures from the China Food and Drug Administration show that more than 170,000 drugs were registered by 2015, but only about 3,000 of those were intended specifically for children....

City reveals drug abuse figures (Shanghai Municipal Government)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
The number of registered drug abusers in Shanghai reached 81,269 by the end of 2015, up 6.2 percent from the previous year, anti-drug officials said yesterday ... and crackdowns on drug trafficking, said Wang Shiping, director of the anti-drug office in Shanghai....

Immune drug for deadly skin cancer shows long-term survival

Edit The Malta Independent 03 Jun 2016
A new kind of drug for the deadliest form of skin cancer helped some patients survive for at least three years, a study shows ... Yervoy, approved in 2011, has the longest-term data of the three drugs, with an eight-year survival rate of about 20 percent, said Dr ... The yearly cost is more than $100,000, a higher price than some conventional cancer drugs....

Teens accused in bong, pot pipe deal at Hackettstown High

Edit NJ dot com 03 Jun 2016
The 16-year-old was charged with possession of under 50 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. The 15-year-old was charged with distribution of under 50 grams of marijuana on school property, distribution of under 50 grams of marijuana, distribution of drug paraphernalia, ......

Initiatives easing drug possession classification, providing treatment likely will be on Nov. 8 ballot

Edit The Oklahoman 03 Jun 2016
Backers of an initiative that would downgrade simple drug possession from a felony to a misdemeanor say they have collected more than enough voter signatures to get it on the Nov ... In Oklahoma, about 17 percent of the people admitted to prisons each year have simple drug possession as their only or as their most serious offense.” ... “Drugs like meth, ......

Canada's ban on an ultra-potent drug may do more harm than good

Edit Business Insider 03 Jun 2016
The Canadian government has banned W-18, the powerful street drug routinely decried as 100 ... Over the last year, Alberta police forces have seized W-18 twice during drug raids — when it was technically legal ... His province recently declared a public health state of emergency — the first of its kind in Canada — over a spike in drug overdoses this year....

Meth time bomb ticking

Edit Otago Daily Times 03 Jun 2016
"Although the sales in methamphetamine drug dealing we're seeing now is pretty small to what we see in the cities, because of what we're seeing, because we're such a small town, it can have such an adverse effect.'' ... • Methamphetamine is a class A controlled substance under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, meaning it attracts the highest penalties for manufacture, trafficking, sale and use....

Fentanyl, Powerful Drug that Killed Prince, Presents Growing Threat

Edit Voa News 03 Jun 2016
Fentanyl, a powerful painkiller that a medical examiner identified as the drug that killed the superstar Prince six weeks ago, has been responsible for an epidemic of overdose deaths around the United States, according to federal officials ... Drug Enforcement Administration last year issued a nationwide alert about the dangers of fentanyl, saying even a tiny amount can kill....

May Was One of the Worst for Drug War Deaths in Recent Memory

Edit Alternet 03 Jun 2016
May's drug war killings bring the Drug War Chronicle's count of drug law enforcement-related deaths this year to 21 ... In May, drug war deaths occurred at a rate nearly twice the five-year average. The seven killings in May accounted for one-third of the killings tallied so far this year ... When the war on drugs intersects with the Second Amendment, the combination is combustible and the bullets fly....

Drug that killed Prince a growing threat

Edit Otago Daily Times 03 Jun 2016
Fentanyl, a powerful painkiller that a medical examiner identified as the drug that killed the superstar Prince six weeks ago, has been responsible for an epidemic of overdose deaths around the United States, according to federal officials ... The US Drug Enforcement Administration last year issued a nationwide alert about the dangers of fentanyl, saying even a tiny amount can kill....
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