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First reported May 24 2013 - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

Dover police: Brothers charged after heroin, pills found in home

_ Two brothers were charged after officers found 97 bags of heroin, a variety of pills and drug paraphernalia following a search of a home in the first block of Gleneagles Court, Dover police said in a release today.Following a monthlong drug investigation, ... [Published Delaware Online - May 24 2013]

Entities: Heroin (Diacetylmorphine), Police, Drugs

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 2 reports

BRIEF: Deputies nab suspect in Santa Cruz drug store robbery

A Santa Cruz man was being held in County Jail on $25,000 bail Friday after he allegedly jumped over a drug store counter, demanded drugs and got away more than two dozen bottles of methadone.Stephen Hill, 26, was arrested by sheriff's deputies Wednesday ... [Published Individual.com - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Stephen Hill, Robbery, Drugs

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

Man found with backpack full of drugs during hit-and-run investigation, police say

PALMER TWP., Pa. -A man is in trouble with the law after police found a backpack filled with marijuana and pills while investigating a hit-and-run accident, officials said.Freddy S. Garcia was a passenger in one of the cars stopped in the 25th Street ... [Published WFMZ-TV Online - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Drugs, Police, Investigation

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Walgreen Co

Suspect Tries to Steal Drugs from Walgreens, Gets Arrested in Santa Cruz

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Officers arrested 26-year old Stephen Hill of Santa Cruz for allegedly stealing medication from a pharmacy at Walgreens.Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Deputies were patrolling within city limits while Santa Cruz Police took their department ... [Published KION 46 - May 24 2013]

Entities: Walgreen Co, Stephen Hill, Drugs, Arrests

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Rescheduling benzos would cost $20m: pharmacists

24 May, 2013 Nick O'Donoghue commentsPharmacists are warning that rescheduling all benzodiazepines will cost the Government millions of dollars in increased fees.Despite opposition to the proposal, the Department of Health and Ageing announced its interim ... [Published Pharmacy News - May 24 2013]

Entities: Benzodiazepines, Dispensing, Alprazolam

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Employee accused of pill theft at CVS

MANKATO — A week of vacation is being used as evidence against a former CVS employee who is accused of stealing more than 1,500 pills from the company's two Mankato pharmacies since February.A pharmacist working at the CVS store on Madison Avenue first ... [Published Mankato Free Press - May 24 2013]

Entities: Vicodin, Retail Loss Prevention, Clonazepam, Blue Earth Inc, Alprazolam

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

Xanax

Growing abuse of Xanax leads to restrictions

The growing abuse of the commonly prescribed anxiety and insomnia drug, alprazolam, has led the peak body for drug regulation in Australia to more tightly restrict its prescription.The interim decision handed down Thursday by the Therapeutic Drugs Administration ... [Published Border Watch - May 23 2013]

Entities: Xanax, Drugs, Abuse, Steve Hambleton, Benzodiazepines

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

Xanax to be rescheduled from next year

The short-acting benzodiapine alprazolam is set to be rescheduled as a Schedule 8 drug from January 2014 because of its widespread abuse and toxicity, the Department of Health and Ageing says.In an interim decision the health department has accepted a ... [Published Australian Doctor - May 23 2013]

Entities: Alprazolam, Xanax, Benzodiazepines, Abuse, Drugs

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Pharmacist charged with drug trafficking

Staff writer The RobesonianLUMBERTON — The pharmacy manager of a Lumberton drug store has been charged with drug crimes, including trafficking, according to the state Department of Justice.Kresa Maude Cummings, 32, was arrested and charged on Tuesday ... [Published Robesonian - May 22 2013]

Entities: Pharmacist, Drug Trafficking, Alprazolam, Drugs, Oxycodone

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Xanax faces new regulation rules

Doctors, health researchers and a magistrate are welcoming likely new rules designed to halt the over-prescribing of controversial anti-anxiety medication Xanax.The ABC has been told the Xanax is likely to be rescheduled by regulators as early as tom ... [Published ABC Online - May 22 2013]

Entities: Xanax, Drugs, Benzodiazepine, Steve Hambleton

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Brockport man faces drug dealing and DWI charges following traffic stop in Le Roy

A suspected drug dealer out of Brockport was busted during a traffic stop for alleged speeding by a state trooper in Le Roy on Friday night.The 23-year-old suspect was allegedly driving 100 in a 55 mph zone at 8:39 p.m. on Route 19.Barton J. Pricola was ... [Published The Batavian - May 21 2013]

Entities: Controlled Substance, Drugs, Alprazolam, Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, Alcohol

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Two Pak nationals extradited to US for illegal drug shipments

From Lalit K JhaWashington, May 21 (PTI) Two Pakistani nationals have been extradited to the US to face charges that they operated internet sites that illegally shipped pharmaceuticals from Pakistan to the United States and Britain.Sheikh Waseem Ul Haq, ... [Published msn.co.in - May 21 2013]

Entities: Extradition, Drugs, Valium, Illegal, Pakistan

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...result of PDMP, public awareness and the lack of supply or availability of the prescription drugs," McCrimon wrote in an email to the Sentinel. "OCIB has seen the trend of prescription drug users to return to the traditional drugs such as heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine as a result of the supply and demand."

Single tip led to Osceola drug case with more than 400 suspects in 18 counties [Published Orlando Sentinel - May 24 2013]

"Use of alprazolam is rising rapidly and is of particular concern, and it is increasingly implicated in heroin-related deaths."

Growing abuse of Xanax leads to restrictions [Published Border Watch - May 23 2013]

"The fact that sustained-release oxycodone is on the S8 has not prevented it from becoming the most abused drug in Australia ... placing alprazolam on the S8 will not dissuade doctor-shoppers, but it might just raise in the prescribing doctor's mind that he/she is doing something more significant than distributing jelly babies and liquorice."

Xanax to be rescheduled from next year [Published Australian Doctor - May 23 2013]

According to the Poisons Standard, S8 substances "should be available for use but require restriction of manufacture, supply, distribution, possession and use to reduce abuse, misuse and physical or psychological dependence"

TGA singles out alprazolam for upscheduling [Published Medical Observer - May 23 2013]

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Rescheduling benzos would cost $20m: pharmacists [Published Pharmacy News - May 24 2013]
Wheat Ridge doctor and others indicted for cons... [Published United States Department of Justice - May 24 2013]
Employee accused of pill theft at CVS [Published Mankato Free Press - May 24 2013]
Growing abuse of Xanax leads to restrictions [Published Border Watch - May 23 2013]
Growing abuse of Xanax leads to restrictions [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 23 2013]
Xanax to be rescheduled from next year [Published Australian Doctor - May 23 2013]
TGA singles out alprazolam for upscheduling [Published Medical Observer - May 23 2013]
Drugs regulator could tighten Xanax rules [Published Brisbane Times - May 23 2013]
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Pharmacist charged with drug trafficking [Published Robesonian - May 22 2013]
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TGA to decide on benzos rescheduling [Published Medical Observer - May 22 2013]
Binge Drinking and Alcohol Poisoning in the Ado... [Published U.S.Pharmacist - May 22 2013]
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Police: Acworth couple faces drug possession ch... [Published Marietta Daily Journal - May 19 2013]
Two arrested after Walgreens robbery [Published Victoria Advocate - May 18 2013]
Fruth Pharmacy lawsuit loses one plaintiff, def... [Published West Virginia Record - May 17 2013]

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Which Prescription Drugs Do Americans Abuse Most? [Published PharmaGossip - May 03 2013] By: Laura SciutoAccording to a 2010 study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, approximately 7 million people in the United States -- or 2.7 percent of the population -- annually abuse prescription drugs. This abuse primarily occurs when people take ...
XANAX XR (Alprazolam) Tablet, Extended Release ... [Published DailyMed Drug Label Updates for the last seven ... - Mar 27 2013] Updated Date: Mar 27, 2013 EST ...
XANAX (Alprazolam) Tablet [Pharmacia And Upjohn... [Published DailyMed Drug Label Updates for the last seven ... - Mar 27 2013] Updated Date: Mar 27, 2013 EST ...
Legislative Alchemy: Chiropractic 2013 [Published Science-Based Medicine - Feb 21 2013] Via the magic of legislative alchemy , chiropractors are already licensed health care providers in all 50 states. Thus their legislative efforts tend to focus on expanding their scope of practice and forcing public and private insurers to cover their ...
Benzodiazepines mechanism of action [Published Pharmacology Corner - Nov 20 2012] Benzodiazepines and GABA receptors: an animation on their mechanism of action Gamma amino butyric acid (GABA) is an inhibiting neurotransmitter that is present on human brains. As shown in the animation, gamma amino butyric acid promotes ...

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