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2 charged after being stopped for speeding in Franklin

Edit NJ dot com 23 Sep 2016
Two men were arrested and charged for allegedly having drug paraphernalia and hypodermic needles on Sept ... FRANKLIN TWP. - Two men were arrested and charged for allegedly having drug paraphernalia and hypodermic needles on Tuesday, police reported....

Fargo judge refuses to let brother of St. Cloud mall attacker attend funeral

Edit Pioneer Press 23 Sep 2016
FARGO, N.D ... Cloud, Minn., mall last weekend. Abdullahi A. Adan, 27, of St ... Cloud. The attacks ended when Dahir Adan was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer ... Adan is being held in the Cass County Jail on charges of possessing marijuana and possessing drug paraphernalia stemming from earlier this year ... ....

Govt to launch drive against drug abuse

Edit The Himalayan 23 Sep 2016
The Ministry of Home Affairs is preparing to launch school and youth-centred drug prevention and awareness programmes in over 15 districts on the dangers of substance abuse ... The districts selected by the government are more vulnerable to drug abuse ... This programme aims to fight narcotics trade nationwide with major focus on cities grappling with drug abuse and raise awareness about social, economic and psychological impacts of drugs....

Thai Youth Initiative against Drugs 2016 Project (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Sep 2016
On 21 September 2016, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs organized the second meeting of the Thai Youth Initiative against Drugs 2016 Project Committee. At the meeting, five finalist teams, selected from a video clip contest entitled 'Find New Ways to Stay Drug Free.', were invited to present their video clips and had an interview with the Committee....

Will County drug court to expand with grant funding

Edit The Oklahoman 23 Sep 2016
(AP) — A new federal grant will expand the capacity of Will County's drug court, bringing 35 to 40 new defendants into the program ... The drug court now handles about 75 ......

Global CNS Disorders Drug Market Expected To Grow At A CAGR Of 7.72% Over 2016-2020

Edit Community news 23 Sep 2016
The Central Nervous System Diseases are universal diseases among the aged people, along the growing aged population around the world, Global CNS Disorders Drug market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.72% over 2016-2020 ... US account for more than 55% of the global CNS Disorders drugs market ... Anti-epileptic and anti-Alzheimer’s markets come next while other classes of drugs have a marginal share....

US: 1 opioid overdose each 2 hours in South Florida epidemic

Edit The Oklahoman 23 Sep 2016
(AP) — Someone overdoses on heroin or other opioid drugs in South Florida every two hours, part of a growing drug abuse epidemic affecting wide swaths of the country, law enforcement officials said Thursday ... from drug overdoses in 2014 than in any year on record, with 60 percent involving an opioid drug such as heroin or the powerful prescription painkiller fentanyl ... Drug Enforcement Administration's South Florida office....

Centre wakes up to drug abuse after 15 years

Edit DNA India 23 Sep 2016
Fifteen years after the last drug abuse survey in 2001, the long-overdue process for a pan India report has finally begun with the central government giving its approval. To be steered by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi, the survey will update addiction figures that strategists need to plan a course of action on how to combat drug abuse....

U.S. attorney: Heroin now nation’s most pressing health challenge

Edit Palm Beach Post 23 Sep 2016
Many addicts relapse and are forced to leave recovery programs, putting them on the street in search of drugs. And a federal task force has been investigating the industry for insurance fraud tied to charges for drug-testing of recovering addicts ... Fentanyl is a powerful prescription drug, often used to sedate surgical patients and relieve pain ... The drugs are shipped to post office boxes or abandoned homes and buildings, McKenna said....

Narcotics Control Bureau incinerates 24.690kg heroin

Edit The Times of India 23 Sep 2016
Narcotics Control Bureau's drug disposal committee incinerated about 24.690kg heroin, which was confiscated in eight different drug smuggling cases in 2015, in Mohali on Thursday. The seized drug was destroyed after permission of judicial courts concerned....

Casey, Isakson, Alexander: Senate Extends Program to Encourage New Drugs and Treatments for Children with Rare Diseases (US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Sep 2016
Casey and Isakson to continue through the end of 2016 a program otherwise set to expire this month that provides drug companies an incentive to develop a drug to treat or cure rare pediatric diseases. If a company develops a drug like that, and it's approved, the company gets a voucher they can keep or sell that will speed up the review of another drug....

Tougher Ice Dealer Laws To Reduce Harm In Victoria (Premier of Victoria)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Sep 2016
The Victorian Court of Appeal recently recommended the quantities for trafficking of ice be reviewed because of the significant harm the drug causes in our community ... The Government has already taken strong action to reduce the harm caused by ice and to hold to account those responsible for manufacturing and dealing the drug ... 'Holding traffickers to account for their actions is critical to stopping the spread of these drugs.'....

Lawmakers grill Mylan CEO over EpiPen price hikes

Edit The Washington Post 23 Sep 2016
At the hearing, outrage over drug-pricing once again united politicians from both sides of the aisle. It came months after “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli, former chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals, appeared in the same chamber because he had increased the price of a decades-old drug called Darparim from $13.50 to $750 a pill ... A drug company finds itself in the crosshairs for raising the list price....
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