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Infant Opiate Addiction: Preventable with Cannabis

Queen Victoria of England Says So!

(MOLALLA, OR) - The Oregonian May 1 2012 featured an article Addicted Babies Rise threefold in a Decade, with the emphasis on opiate painkillers for pregnant mothers and the extremely serious withdrawal effects on the newborn infants.

They end up costing up to $50,000 per infant for a total of $720 million dollars per year.

Drug War-Related Homicides In The US Average At Least 1,100 a Year

Full extent of carnage unknown as US govt doesn’t track violent crime linked to War On Drugs.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - The number of people murdered in the drug war inside the US between 2006 and 2010 exceeds the US-troop death toll in the Iraq War since it was launched in 2003, according to a Narco News analysis of FBI crime statistics.

The US drug-war homicide tally is nearly 3 times greater than the number of US soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the first shots were fired...

Women in Mexican Politics

“I wanted Zihuatanejo to have many schools, students and electricity” - Dona Cari

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - When Caritina Galeana Gomez was born, women did not have the right to vote and the Institutional Revolutionary Party that dominated Mexico for much of the 20th century wasn’t even created.

Born just before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, Dona Cari, as she is known locally, grew up in the Costa Grande of Guerrero state before a highways and tourist resorts attracted people from all over the world.

Peru: Laws Threaten Fundamental Human Rights of People with Drug Dependence

Salem-News.com Eye on the World Report.

(DHAKA- Bangladesh) - Peru's Law No. 29737 and related provisions in Peruvian law, permit involuntary detention for treatment of people who suffer from addiction, in circumstances that do not comply with international human rights law.

The law threatens fundamental human rights protections against arbitrary detention and ill-treatment deny the right to health.

Actress Demi Moore Hospitalized for Drug Consumption

Drug addiction has become a popular playing card for a big part of young people around the world.

(MADRID, Spain) - Demi Moore was rushed to the emergency room due to serious problems caused by the consumption of drugs by the actress. Recently, Ashton Kutcher and Demi divorced. The break up was not easily taken in by the 49 year old actress.

The actress’ poor health conditions are also due to the cruel demise of being an aged actress in Hollywood.

Marianne Skolek Named `Investigative Reporter` by Salem-News.com

The title is an appropriate, overdue move in our history.

(SALEM) - As a dedicated writer, Marianne Skolek, who has generated 130 articles for Salem-News.com, has been named 'Investigative Reporter' by the group's News Editor, Tim King.

Marianne's first article, Losing a Loved One to Hillybilly Heroin - OxyContin, was published in July 2009.

Precedent-Setting Human Trafficking Case

Human trafficking also involves violations of other laws, including labor and immigration codes and laws against kidnaping, slavery, false imprisonment, assault, battery, pandering, fraud, and extortion.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - When most people think of human trafficking, they envision victims trafficked into the international sex trade.

Medical Marijuana: the Best and Safest Pain Killer
Compared to Oxycontin, et cetera

I had 5,000 or so patients with 70% complaining of severe pain, who found relief with Mairjuana.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - I presume that a few people will disagree with my thesis. I will admit to a few exceptions and I will address them later.

For my own review, I pulled up the standard doses of the opiates, (from opium) and the opioids, not from opium but totally synthetic.

Is the American Psychiatric Association in Bed with Big Pharma?

Do we really need more mental disorder diagnoses creating the need for more drugs in a society that some would say is already over-medicated?

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published by the American Psychiatric Association.

The DSM provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders, which is used in the United States and to some extent internationally, by clinicians, researchers, psychiatric drug regulation agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and policy makers.

Marine Corps Communique Becomes Smoking Gun in Colonel Sabow Murder

A 2010 Navy cold case investigation of the death of Marine Colonel James Sabow claimed no support for homicide, despite forensic evidence and experts who found homicide the more likely cause of death.

(CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.) - There are good reasons to question last year’s Navy Criminal Investigative Agency (NCIS) cold case investigation into the death of Marine Colonel James E. Sabow.

He was found dead at his quarters at MCAS El Toro, CA, by his wife on the morning of January 22, 1991.