Archive for April, 2009
Italy Dealt Double Blow Over Organised Crime
The Italian authorities were yesterday reeling from a double blow in their fight against organized crime. In the United States, a judge refused the extradition of a convicted Cosa Nostra heroin trafficker on the grounds that Italy’s tough prison regime for gangsters was a form of torture. In Italy a “super grass” due to testify [...]
The Future of Australia is Drugs
Strolling past the Myer Music Bowl at Future Music Festival, the energized dance music seemed only a soundtrack to the more interesting scene at play. The festival, held March 11 in Melbourne, was the scene to a mass of drug busts in one of the Victorian Police force’s most impressive display of weight in the [...]
Scottish Player Cleared Over Drugs Test
Scotland lock Scott MacLeod has been reprimanded after testing positive for the drug Terbutaline – an asthma medication on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s banned list – but has been cleared to face England on March 8 after an independent judicial committee accepted that the breach was “entirely inadvertent”. Following a urine sample taken by UK [...]
Merope Mills: We Cheated Drug Testers
Of all the goods currently available for sale in the modern playground – stolen trainers, alcohol, mobile phones – Tony Blair’s plans to introduce drug-testing in schools may well throw up another less palatable black-market product. “Clean” urine, free from impurities likely to show up in a drug analysis, looks set to be a highly [...]
Male Sexual Health Problems
Sexual health is defined as “the ability of two people to relate with each other sexually in a way that satisfies and rewards both.” But almost everyone who is sexually intimate with another person sooner or later experiences with some sex problems, often resolved by better communication and closer sharing of likes and dislikes. Despite [...]
Live Sex and Drug-taking Bring Dutch Reality Tv to a New Level
The country that unleashed Big Brother on an unsuspecting world has taken reality television a step further: a late-night talkshow whose presenters will consume drugs and engage in sex acts on air, then discuss their experiences afterwards. The live Spuiten & Slikken show – which can be translated either as Inject & Swallow or Ejaculate [...]
Key Prescription Drug Addiction Statistics
Prescription drug addiction is becoming a major problem in America. Prescription drugs are being prescribed for a wider variety of reasons and quite frequently, greatly increasing the chances that they will be misused. There are several disturbing prescription drug addiction statistics that are worth mentioning. One sad prescription drug addiction statistic reported by the U.S. [...]
Issues Regarding Drug Testing
The argument that drug testing actually causes more harm to society rather than helping it as professed has been gaining ground in the last few years. Although drug testing was conceptualized and implemented with the purpose of reducing the damage that is being done to society by drugs, the reality of the effects of drug [...]
Oxycodone Abuse & Addiction & Side Effects & Testing
Oxycodone is a prescription drug that acts as a depressant of the central nervous system. It is a narcotic, much like Vicodin and morphine and is used to treat moderate to severe pain like that caused by fractures, arthritis, childbirth and serious diseases like Cancer Going by such brand names as Percocet, OxyContin, Tylox and [...]
The Rising Frequency of Drug Tests
It was practically unheard of for anyone my age to be using drugs when I was in high school about twenty years ago. Drugs were way too controversial for my generation, even though we did have parties and the majority of us were guilty of underage drinking. Drugs weren’t completely unheard of in our small [...]