Drug Abuse in the News

4/3/2018

Ballarat drivers heed the Easter road message with few charges

Senior Constable Michael Goss and Constable Aaron White were among police out conducting almost 10,000 breath and drug tests over the weekend. Picture: Luka Kauzlaric. [...]

4/3/2018

Taylor Swift's accused stalker sentenced to 10 years probation for...

Aspiring pastor, 29, who claimed too much cough medicine made him stab his wife 123 times was obsessed with American Psycho and talked to friends 'about killing someone' How social media can stress you out! New study says taking a break from Facebook might help - but how long should you stay off it? Taylor Swift 's accused stalker Frank Andrew Hoover was reportedly sentenced to 10 years probation on Monday for violating a protective order back in 2016. Hoover must remain a mile away from the 28-year-old pop star and her family, whom he allegedly sent threatening emails to - according to TMZ . [...]

4/2/2018

Taylor Swift's Stalker Gets 10 Years Probation

The guy who was busted for hounding Taylor Swift all over Texas is getting off with probation -- but for a long time, with several strings attached. Frank Andrew Hoover was busted in 2016 after he showed up at one of her gigs in Austin. [...]

4/2/2018

Ethan Couch of a Affluenzaa Case Released from Jail

Couch, 20, first made headlines as a teenager when he was sentenced to probation for a drunken driving crash that killed four people and seriously injured two others. Prosecutors in that 2013 case sought 20 years in jail, but Couch received no prison time after a psychologist testified that Couch was a victim of "affluenza," a product of wealthy, privileged parents who never set limits for him. [...]

4/2/2018

Another 'grass gap' in Chicago opens between blacks and whites on legalization

For the last several years, Mick Dumke and I have been writing about the " grass gap "-i.e., even though everyone smokes reefer, mainly only black people get busted for possessing it. Now there's a new gap. [...]

4/1/2018

The Hairy Problem With Drug Testing and Chemical Analysis

The city, in turn, gave it to a company called Psychemedics, which washed the hair, dissolved it, and used gas chromatography and mass spectrometry-chemical analysis techniques-to check it twice over for evidence of cocaine. Hogan's hair tested positive. [...]

4/1/2018

Griffith police shocked at driver complacency over Easter weekend

DISAPPOINTED: Chief Inspector John Wadsworth is "disappointed" with the behavior of motorists on Griffith roads over the Easter weekend. PHOTO: Anthony Stipo. [...]

4/1/2018

Great white shark shadows police boat on patrol off South Australian coast

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3/31/2018

All the 'Teen Moms' Who've Been ArrestedCosmopolitan

Driving with a suspended license: Gary was pulled over in May of 2011 while he and Amber, who was his fiancA©e at the time, were arguing. When police asked both of them for their licenses and registration, they noticed Gary's license had been expired since November of 2010. [...]

3/31/2018

Mackenzie Standifer: Is She Divorcing Ryan Edwards?

It's all been very interesting, but once you remember that he's a real person with a real family and not just a character on a television show ... To recap, Ryan was arrested earlier this week at his home in Chattanooga for violating his probation -- because oh yeah, he was also arrested last year. Unlike Mackenzie Standifer -- or as Maci Bookout likes to call her, "his snake of a wife" -- said, he was arrested last March, not last April, for simple possession of heroin. [...]

3/31/2018

Italy accuses French border cops of wrongdoing in drug test

Italian officials are denouncing French border agents for allegedly entering an Italian train station facility to force a Nigerian migrant to give a urine sample for a drug test. The humanitarian group Rainbow4Africa, which helps migrants at the Bardonecchia crossing near Turin, accused the five armed French border agents of entering the train station facility and intimidating its doctor, cultural mediators and lawyers on Friday night. [...]

3/31/2018

Teen Mom's Maci Bookout Files Order of Protection Against Ex Ryan Edwards

Online records from the Hamilton County Circuit Court in Tennessee identifies the first order as McKinney versus Edwards and the second order as Bookout and her three children versus Edwards. The Teen Mom star shares her eldest child Bentley , 9, with Edwards and her two younger children, Jayde , 2, and Maverick 1, with McKinney. [...]

3/31/2018

Easter period drug driving offences double compared to 2017

A total of 18 motorists returned positive oral drug tests on Thursday and Friday, compared to nine in the corresponding two days last year. However, the slight fall comes after Tasmania Police conducted little more than half of the amount of random drug and alcohol tests as 2017. [...]

3/31/2018

MediciNova Flunks Mid-Stage Study, But Not All Is Lost

NASH/NAFLD interim data from a phase 2 study is expected to be reported at EASL 2018 on April 13, 2018. The financials were recently boosted with a cash raise in February of 2018 meaning there is no risk of near-term dilution. [...]

3/30/2018

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Ohio's opioid crisis is a threat to the state's families, health, and to its economy. Now the Ohio Chamber of Commerce is stepping up to offer help to companies struggling to deal with the business ramifications of the addiction epidemic. [...]