Salem-News.com Drugs articles Page 30

Violence, Tourism and Big Bucks

“There will be checkpoints in all the states to make the tourist who comes feel secure and to give any help that is needed,” - Oralia Vega, Secretaries of Tourism

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - As Mexico gears up for its annual Holy Week and Easter Week holiday beach bash, polemics continue to fly over the state of the country’s tourism sector.

At the heart of the debate is how violence and the media’s coverage of it may or may not be discouraging tourism.

Florida Governor Who Opposes Prescription Drug Monitoring Joins Drug Trade Panel

"Human beings feel dishonor the most -- sometimes when they most deserve it!" - Mark Twain

(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) - Earlier this week we published Rick Scott Elected Governor of Florida, But Voters Have a Charlatan in Office -- Not a Governor!

The story that illustrated the outrageous side of Florida politics, the state's new governor, and the relationship both play in the expanding Oxycontin crisis. Florida is where 85% of all Oxycontin sales take place.

Rick Scott Elected Governor of Florida, But Voters Have a Charlatan in Office -- Not a Governor!

"Once you give a charlatan power over you -- you almost never get it back" - Carl Sagan

(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) - Florida sells nine times the number of prescription pain pills, compared to any other state. Yet newly elected Gov. Rick Scott blocked a prescription drug monitoring system in Florida, why would this be?

Maybe because Florida sees 85% of all OxyContin sales in the U.S.?

Hypochondriac Heaven: Drug Makers Blitz Media, Exploiting Insecurities

Nobody ever said that politicians have a monopoly on fudging the truth when convenient.

(SALEM, Ore.) - How are you feeling today? If you're inclined to regard yourself as in fine shape, the drug makers of America would love to plant a much different thought in your mind.

Turn on my any TV during the course of the evening and you'll stand witness to media manipulation in action.

Border Patrol Agent`s Murder Tied to ATF`s Covert Shipment of Over 1700 Weapons to Mexico

ATF Whistleblowers out 'Operation Fast and Furious'- catch it tonight on Expert Witness Radio.

(NEW YORK / SALEM) - Three federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have blown the whistle on this covert U.S. program dating back to 2008, that smuggled over 1700 illegal weapons over the border and into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.

It was called "Operation Fast And Furious' and it might be one of the most bitter indictments in American history.

Part 2 - FDA`s Continual Responsibility for Making Our Children Into a Nation of Drug Addicts!

Why are parents allowing this to happen?

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - I recently wrote an article regarding the "Flamingo Pipeline" from Florida to New York of OxyContin Trafficking.

Every state in the U.S. -- as well as Canada -- has been fighting a war to keep our children from becoming a statistic in the OxyContin epidemic the FDA has allowed to become a runaway train in death.

Today`s McCarthyism

For 40 years, the DEA has been kicking in doors and murdering mostly African-Americans while the media and our country has been silent in complacence and complicity.

(BROOKLYN, N.Y.) - scapegoat is the vehicle of injustice through which morally depraved political interests amass power and strip society of freedom and humanity. Although the players have changed, the game remains the same.

The politics of fear, hatred and ignorance have scapegoated the politically disenfranchised throughout history; African-Americans during slavery and Jim Crow, Jews in 1933 Germany, Japanese-Americans in WWII America, blacklisted intellectuals in the 1950’s.

Health News: Cocaine Kids

One agency has reached 51,400 people with prevention activities, and directly helped 320 patients and families.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - On a hill overlooking Zihuatanejo, Mexico, Lesly Narvaez Castanon and her staff wage a struggle against substance abuse.

Opened in 2005, the government-supported Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo Youth Integration Center(CIJ) became the first drug prevention and treatment center to serve this Pacific Coast resort located in the southern state of Guerrero.

A Searing Indictment of American Government Officials in Mexico`s Drug Cartel Wars

95 years after Pancho Villa, the polarity of the threat against civilians reverses.

(SALEM, Ore.) - City and police officials in New Mexico are behind bars and facing federal charges for smuggling deadly weapons to Mexican drug cartel members.

It happened in Columbus; a small town associated with a historic border raid by Pancho Villa.

The Slaughter of Children

The homicide rate in Ciudad Juarez and the state of Chihuahua in 2009 was nearly seven times greater than the Mexican national average for minors.

(CIUDAD, JUAREZ, Mexico) - In Ciudad Juarez and other parts of Mexico, the killings of children and young people are now routine headlines.

In particular, the last week has been a rough time for many families in the border city.