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Health officials are watching in horror as bacteria become resistant to powerful antibiotics
As a rule, high-ranking public-health officials try to avoid apocalyptic descriptors. So it was worrying to hear Thomas Frieden and Sally Davies warn of a coming health “nightmare” and a “catastrophic threat” within a few days of each other in March.
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Drugs Found On Bieber's Tour Bus
U.S. border agents found marijuana on a bus with singer Justin Bieber's tour as it crossed into Detroit from Windsor, Canada.
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Documenting One Woman’s Struggle with Heroin
At a time when heroin use is rising among teens, Tony Fouhse's powerful new book captures a young woman's recovery from addiction, as well as an unconventional relationship between subject and documentary photographer.
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Pill Linked To Long Life In Mice
Scientists believe the drug, metformin, may mimic the effects of extreme calorie restriction. This regime, which is based on eating a very low calorie diet, is thought to promote healthy ageing. The human implications of the study are unclear, the researchers report in the journal, Nature Communications.
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Uruguay moves to legalize marijuana.
Uruguay's lower house of parliament set a global first last night by voting to give the state control of marijuana production, distribution, and sales.
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Helicobacter pylori : all you need to know! by Dr Rita Monsieur & Dr Van Snick
This bacterium infects about 40% of European population, and 80% of population in developing countries. It is the only bacterium or virus that can live in the acidic environment of human stomach, and causes gastric troubles. Read the complete study produced by Dr Rita Monsieur & Dr Van Snick, and the natural solution they suggest as treatment: The HBP Global Action
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Scare Tactics Don't Stop People From Using Drugs
Information about how terrible drugs and alcohol are for your health doesn't seem to be an effective deterrent, a new study says.
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Uruguay to Become First Nation to Fully Legalize Marijuana: Blow to Ruinous US War on Drugs
Given the passage of a sweeping new law legalizing marijuana in the entire nation of Uruguay by their Congress on August 2 (with the apparent inevitable passage by the Uruguayan Senate this fall), the South American nation is likely to become the first nation to set the dominoes of a ruinous US drug war policy tumbling down.
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How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs
As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system. But a special investigation by the Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of one London whistleblower were ignored.
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Are We Killing Our Sports Gene?
Are we losing a generation of athletes by overprescribing ADHD drugs? David Epstein on the genes that make us move—and their evolutionary purpose.
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MLB suspends Alex Rodriguez for 211 games
Major League Baseball will probably move Monday to suspend Alex Rodriguez amid allegations involving the use of performance-enhancing drugs, two sources said.
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Mexican Cartels Are Recruiting US Soldiers As Hitmen, And The Pay Is Good
Mexican cartels such as Los Zetas are recruiting U.S. soldiers to do some of their dirty work.
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The secret world of teen cartel hit men
American hitmen Rosalio Reta and Gabriel Cardona offer a first-hand glimpse inside drug cartels which plague innocent people on both sides of the border.
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Why Can't Science Keep Up With Sports Doping?
Scientists and anti-doping regulators are often a step behind dishonest athletes.
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2 Mexican teens in jail claim van bought at US government auction came with cocaine
A Mexican family says that a van bought at a U.S. government auction came with an unwanted extra: an undiscovered package of cocaine beneath the dashboard.
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New Zealand’s plan to regulate designer drugs is better than trying to ban them and failing
AS THE world’s drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs.
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One in 10 Americans have taken drugs prescribed for others.
Kurt is a 32-year-old IT systems administrator from Des Moines, Iowa. He has a colleague who had been prescribed "ridiculous amounts" of Vicodin for a chronic back problem.
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Mellow mood at first Seattle Hempfest since pot legalization.
Pot smoke wafted over thousands of revelers gathered at Seattle's downtown waterfront to kick off the first Hempfest rally since Washington state and Colorado passed initiatives to legalize marijuana for recreational use last November.
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Leader of Mexico's Gulf drug cartel captured
The leader of the Gulf cartel, one of Mexico's oldest drug-running groups, has been captured, Mexican officials said Saturday.
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North Korea Grapples With Crystal Meth Epidemic
North Korea is experiencing an epidemic of the drug crystal meth, or methamphetamine, according to a new study.
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