I might say at the outset that I can be counted out if people around here develop a Not in My Backyard mindset in regards to medical marijuana. I am fine with it if someone wants to set up a growing facility in my neighborhood for medical marijuana. After all, by license from the state, the facility must be indoors, in a secure facility and can't be too close to schools or churches. It has to be run by creditworthy people of good character, who will have to undergo background checks. [continues 572 words]
A Fatal Overdose From A Prescription Pain Patch Leads To A Murder Charge In Westerly Last spring, 48-year-old Elfreida Cook, diagnosed with colon cancer and awaiting surgery, was using a powerful prescription pain killer, a fentanyl patch, which, once it is applied to the skin, slowly delivers, over the course of three days, a medicine that can be 100 times more potent than morphine. When some of the patches disappeared from her home on Bowling Lane, one side of a decrepit duplex in the old mill village of Bradford, on the rural outskirts of Westerly, she went downtown to the police station to report them stolen, according to her niece, Derlyn Scott. [continues 1481 words]
I moved to Kingsport in March and sad to say I wish I had stayed in Maryland. I lived in Kingsport once, and it's not the same because of the drug use here. It makes it hard on those of us who don't use or abuse drugs. I'm ADHD and have been since I was young and have been on Adderall for the last 10 months. When I ran out, I went to the hospital where the doctor who saw me treated me like I was some kind of a crackhead. [continues 74 words]
Info Sheet Aimed At Poz People Who Party HIV medications and recreational drugs can interact in dangerous and sometimes unpredictable ways. But knowing proper harm reduction techniques can help. The Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE) has new educational materials ready to help people juggle their medication and their recreational drug use. "It's not about rules, what you can and can't do with your life," says David Coop, director of treatment information at CATIE. "It's about being informed and about making informed choices about lifestyle." [continues 746 words]
Drug Use/Cutting Back On The 'Ooga Booga' Routine Two serious drug overdoses this winter in two of the city's busiest bathhouses have triggered concern over how gay baths and nightclubs should handle drug overdoses. The Feb 1 death of Kenneth Arthur Scott at the Spa On Maitland was a result of injecting cocaine. Insp Don Campbell of 52 Division says Scott was known to the police and had been arrested several times before. He was not a bathhouse regular. [continues 816 words]
(U-WIRE) STILLWATER, Okla. -- Friday I will be in Oklahoma City on a business-related trip, but I also plan to spend a couple of hours at the state Capitol in a massive protest against the ridiculous "war on drugs." No, I'm not a big activist for the legalization of drugs. I know that drugs are often abused and there has to be some control over them so that people do not permanently hurt themselves, but I do not believe we need an all-out war on them. [continues 686 words]
