Medicinal marijuana is still a hot button topic for federal, state and local governments and now a recent Gallup poll says 50% of American's support the use of pot for medical purposes.
According to the report the number ...
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Government spending figures released on Wednesday have revealed that Americans are spending far more money on Asthma related drugs than they did 10 years ago.
According to government figures in 1998 Americans spent $527 million on Asthma drugs ...
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Elite Transportation Limo and Security Services is suing Lindsay Lohan for availing their services but not paying $90,000, including chauffeured services and private security.
Reports had it that the company made attempts to resolve the issue with the ...
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A female in Mexico was decapitated over the weekend when she chose to use a local social networking website to speak out about the Zetas drug cartel, a deadly group that occupies the Texas-Mexico border.
Marisol Macias Castaneda ...
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I don't know about you but I have never understood how drug companies are able to sell drugs where a side effect can be death. I mean seriously people why are they allowed to do this, and ...
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In 1979 the U.S. Government began tracking drug-related deaths and for the first time those deaths have surpassed the number of traffic fatalities on an annual basis.
The most recent statistics which were taken in 2009 shows that ...
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A Chicago woman crashed her Mercury Grand Marquis into a neighbor's house just outside of Chicago on Saturday killing the man who lived inside the home. The story could have ended there but it turns out the ...
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Former Dior head John Galliano has been found guilty in a Paris courtroom of "public insults based on origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnicity" after the designer was filmed hurling several epithets at fellow diners in an ...
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When we think of performance-enhancing drugs the first thing that comes to mind are baseball players and stashes of steroids but don't let that fool you folks because there's another whole group of people who apparently are known ...
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Takeda Pharmaceuticals CO. LTD halted sales in June of their popular diabetes drug Actos as the company faces hundreds of lawsuits due to growing suspicion that the pill raises the risk of developing bladder cancer.
Actos is a top ...
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In 1996 59.5% of antidepressant prescriptions were handed out to patients who were never diagnosed with depression, by 2007 that figure rose to 72.7% according to a new research report published in Health Affairs.
According to the study ...
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The other night I was chilling and watching some television when a thought came to me about how much longer it would be before we could start using our smartphones for things like checking your diabetes levels. For ...
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With the amount of drugs that we take as a society doctors have been warning for years that there will come a time when we are going to run up a totally drug resistant type of disease.
Well, ...
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The ground breaking article from the NY Times, "Rethinking Addiction’s Roots, and Its Treatment" finally gets it right. After years, if not decades, of blaming the victims of drug addiction, this refreshing and important article makes the ...
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Someone on Long Island is probably really high right now.
Procedure surrounding the handling of evidence is being eyed in a case on Long Island right now because some key evidence in the case disappeared in the chain ...
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Valium- side effects may include drowsiness, inability to operate heavy machinery, difficulties with coordination and hating Jews.
Wait, what? Fashion designer and former Christian Dior head honcho John Galliano is claiming valium is to blame for the anti-Semitic ...
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The Global Commission on Drug Policy has declared the international War on Drugs to be a "massive failure," and has called for more progressive policies regarding drugs across national borders.
The 19-member panel cited “devastating consequences for individuals ...
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Data collected from two previous studies suggests children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder are far more likely to become dependent on certain substances, including alcohol, cigarettes and drugs.
The studies revealed that kids with ADHD were one and ...
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It was inevitable, and anyone who didn't think this would happen is living in a dream world but for those of you looking to buy some illegal drugs without having to travel into some hellhole or another ...
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Have you ever been so pissed about a drug deal, you called the cops to complain?
I swear when I was a kid this used to be a joke, "Officer, he stole my weed!" But thanks to the internet, ...
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)'s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (or FARS) has released new data regarding drug use and driving, indicating that the issue may influence up to 33% of driver fatalities.
The NHTSA points out ...
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A four-year-old from Britain got an unexpected freebie when his dad bought him a copy of Fight Night Round 4 from Blockbuster - a bag of blended ganja and tobacco, carefully tucked away inside the game's case.
30-year-old ...
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