drugs

For years, car accidents have been the leading cause of accidental death. But that all changed four years ago when, for the first time, vehicle-related deaths were topped by poisoning due to prescription painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin.

It is not often that a health care professional advocates for a drug which has been known to cause extreme bouts of paranoia, frightening hallucinations and the occasional death. So, when it does happen, it’s news.

A new survey suggests that more teenagers today are smoking pot rather than cigarettes.

A 4 Year Old boy from Jacksonville, Florida was hospitalized after he ate an aluminum package with crack cocaine in it. The child was in the care of his grandmother at the time.

I have seen several posts from friends on facebook in the last few days about a drug called Strawberry Quik.  It is said to resemble Pop Rocks candy and is a flavored form of crystal meth.  As I have been reading the warnings, it dawned on me that this isn't the first time I have heard about this drug.

In yet another sad turn of events in the light of Whitney Houston‘s death, her daughter, Bobbi Kristina, allegedly got high following her mother’s funeral.

I find myself jumping up on my soap box this morning.  Am I sad that Whitney Houston died?  Yes, I am, because the world lost an amazing singer.  Do I think that her death warrants all the media attention, no I do not.  Whitney Houston was a drug addict, yes, she may have gotten clean at one point and time,  but with the events surrounding her death, it looks like she relapsed.

With the news of Leslie Carter’s passing still fresh, rumors about the cause of death of the sister of Backstreet Boy Nick Carter and Aaron Carter are beginning to surface. Carter, an aspiring singer and mother of a young daughter, was supposedly in the grip of a prescription medication addiction. The battle had intensified in the days leading up to her death. While the family’s statement did not

Earlier this month, actress Heather Locklear was rushed to the hospital after mixing alcohol and prescription medication — and now sources say she’s “under a doctor’s care.”

Normally the news of a random guy being arrested on a litany of drug charges wouldn’t necessarily make national headlines, but when that guy is named Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop (you definitely read that right), people take notice.

Charlie Sheen hasn’t been in the tabloids much lately, but it seems his most recent ex-wife Brooke Mueller is picking up the slack. Mueller, 34, was arrested in Aspen, Colorado on Friday night after another woman reported the erstwhile Mrs. Sheen assaulted her at a nightclub.

A new study of 8,000 kids published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health finds those who had high IQs were more likely to use certain illicit drugs as they aged. Smarter girls in particular may tend to experiment with marijuana, cocaine, and other illicit drugs later on.