'Diablo' and 'Eric 3'. Fears over new legal party drugs that are 'as dangerous as cocaine' | Mail Online

Fears over new legal party drugs that are 'as dangerous as cocaine' | Mail Online: "Several teenagers have been taken to hospital after taking dangerous new strains of 'legal highs', it has emerged.

A report compiled by drugs workers in Cambridge revealed teens are suffering serious illnesses from consuming legal drugs called 'Diablo' and 'Eric 3'.

They have become increasingly popular since the Government banned the drug Meow Meow because it had been linked with a series of deaths."

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Heroin use on the rise in Coos County | KCBY CBS 11 - News, Weather and Sports - Coos Bay - North Bend, OR - Coos Bay / North Bend, Oregon | Local & Regional News

Heroin use on the rise in Coos County | KCBY CBS 11 - News, Weather and Sports - Coos Bay - North Bend, OR - Coos Bay / North Bend, Oregon | Local & Regional News: "number of heroin arrests and heroin linked DUII related charges are way up on South Coast and it seems to be targeting a specific demographic.
According to Lt. Steve Smartt, 'There's been a drastic increase in heroin arrests, just in the last quarter. The quarter before, we had one heroin arrests, this last quarter, there's been 9. It seems to be almost a drug of choice now with the younger set, the 20's.'
Heroin comes from the opium poppy, which can also be found in the widely popular pain killer, Oxycotin. Smartt says he believes the greater availability of that prescription drug for youth to obtain, may have fed into their growing addiction."

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Fisherman and wife to hang for drugs

Fisherman and wife to hang for drugs: "Shahrizal Said, 32, and Zarimah Yusof, 29, who appeared calm when Judicial Commissioner Nurmala Salim read out the sentence, began sobbing the moment court was adjourned as they hugged and talked to their relatives.

Several relatives were also seen sobbing uncontrollably.

Nurmala had found them guilty of two charges of trafficking 165.62gm of a combination of heroin and monoacetylmorphine and 148.6gm of methamphetamine at 3.45pm on Feb 3, 2008, inside a room in a unit at Flat Desa Riang at Jalan Batu Uban 3 in Gelugor here."

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Galway in grip of growing heroin crisis | Connacht Tribune | galwaynews.ie

Galway in grip of growing heroin crisis | Connacht Tribune | galwaynews.ie: "scale of Ireland’s heroin problem has been brought into sharp focus by a new pan-European report which concluded that seven in every 1,000 people in Ireland are heroin users.

And the report from the Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) warned: ‘drug problems have no age limits.’

One such self-confessed heroin addict in Galway is a 40 year old with three teenage children; slight and greying, he admits that over 20 years of drug and alcohol abuse have taken their toll.

It takes a few minutes to get started with the interview as his phone keeps ringing he mentions there is currently a “drought” in Galway and there is not much heroin available so everyone is on the “hunt”."

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Lindsay Lohan: I'm The Victim!!! | TMZ.com

Lindsay Lohan: I'm The Victim!!! | TMZ.com: "Lindsay is squarely disputing the story chemical dependency technician Dawn Holland told TMZ ... that Lindsay attacked her and caused her to sprain her arm so severely she's on workers' comp. Lindsay says, for starters, she wasn't even with her two roommates hours before the incident. Lindsay says she was out getting her hair done.

Lindsay is telling her friends and family, when she returned to the house, Holland grabbed her abruptly and pushed her so hard, Lindsay began to cry.

Lindsay says that's when she went inside the house and called 911.

As for refusing to take a breathalyzer, Lindsay says she actually asked Holland to give her a test but Holland refused."

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Ryan turned down offers of help to beat cocaine habit - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie

Ryan turned down offers of help to beat cocaine habit - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "FORMER RTE presenter Gareth O'Callaghan last night revealed he offered to help his friend Gerry Ryan beat his long-term drug addition, but the broadcaster never took him up on it.
O'Callaghan, who is a qualified clinical psychotherapist, revealed he approached Ryan at least twice to get him to take the first steps to kick his cocaine habit.
O'Callaghan also revealed he came under fire at the weekend from former RTE colleagues for speaking about the extent of his friend's drug abuse.
The presenter, who now works at 4FM, was one of the top presenters at 2fm in the 1990s. He is one of the few friends of Ryan who has been willing to comment in the wake of last week's inquest which confirmed cocaine had contributed to his death.
O'Callaghan criticised the code of silence that has followed the drugs-linked deaths of Ryan and former model Katy French, and insisted the aim of his words was to prevent further cocaine casualties."

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