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They Say: Tell The Kids You Did Drugs
Should Whitney Houston have disclosed all the dirty details of her freebasing past? Was it a necessary cautionary tale, or would the revelation make her teen daughter, Bobbi Kristina, want to pick up the pipe? A new study says blab away. Conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs on behalf of the Hazelden Foundation, the survey discovered that the majori...
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Guy Loses Stepson While Buying Drugs
A man in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania went out to pick up some illegal drugs. He brought his six-year-old stepson with him. He parked the car, gets out, buys what he needs to buy. But he forgot where he parked. According to a report on Philly.com, Dino Vicente was “very hostile, confused and incoherent” when he approached a police officer and...
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Mum Sues Cops For Killing Toddler
In a victory for the Los Angeles police and a crushing loss for a mother, a judge threw out the case of a woman who was suing police for killing her toddler with a stray bullet during a hostage showdown. This is a very complicated case and I'm surprised it was decided so quickly. Read more...
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Build-A-Bears Found Stuffed With Heroin
When you go to a Build-a-Bear workshop, you and your child get to stuff the bear-to-be with oodles of fluff as well as a cute little red heart. A dozen people in the Bronx had another idea of what to use to fill out the bear bodies . Their choice of stuffing? Heroin. A recent drug bust by the New York office of the Drug Enforcement Agency netted...
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Mums Using Cocaine to Get Through School Dropoff?
It seems that cocaine use is booming in Australia and the UK, and not just by the rich. Instead, the drug is being used by typically employed, well-educated and socially integrated middle class folk (it's also booming amongst lower socio-economic groups who typically inject the drug or combine it with other illegal stimulants.) Not only that, it...
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Mum Gives 9-Year-Old Marijuana
Writer Marie Myung-Ok Lee pushes marijuana on her 9-year-old son. She mixes it in cookies and teas. She offers him hits from a bong-like vapouriser — whatever it takes to get him high. But she's not some kind of hard-partying "if it feels good, do it" hippie mum. Lee is trying to help her autistic son, who spends large parts of his days an...
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4 Year Old Brings Pot To School, School Bans Backpacks
When I was young and went to summer camp, people were always amazed when I said I was from the Bronx. I remember one kid actually took two steps back when I told him. Because people from the Bronx, you know, they were scary. Clearly those guys didn't know what they were talking about. The really dangerous kids are from Florida. The 4 year olds....
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Mum Accused Of Feeding Meth-Tainted Breastmilk To Daughter
According to her family and friends, Michelle Megan Hastings deserves credit because she hasn’t used meth for several months. Accept, of course, that one day when she breast fed her child. Hastings was arrested and charged with criminal mistreatment after police say her daughter tested positive for methamphetamine. She faces 17 months in jail...
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They Say: Kids’ Infections Increasingly Drug-Resistant
Apparently the alarming reports about MRSA (that's Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections, for those of you without a medical degree) have not, in fact, been the pediatric version of worries about killer bees; the risk for such infections among kids suffering from head and neck ailments (like ear infections, colds, etc.) has risen n...
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