Deadly $2 'cheese heroin' aimed at teens
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A cheap highly addictive drug known as "cheese heroin" has killed 21 teens in the Dallas area over two years, and authorities hope to stop the fad before it spreads across the nation. A father who lost his 15-year-old son to "cheese" told CNN: "I should have had a better talk with him. ... All it takes is once. You get high once and you die."
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Four young people were arrested by the police on Friday afternoon following a drug find. According to the police, 40 packets of heroin were found in a truck, which the four young people were driving through Swieqi and St Julian&#39;s.
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At least 82 U.S. youths have died since 1995 engaging in "the choking game" in which they try to experience a fleeting "high" by cutting off the oxygen supply to the brain, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
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Fall in teenage consumption raises doubts over plan to reclassify drug.
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Prescription drug abuse is about to exceed the use of illicit street narcotics worldwide, and the shift has spawned a lethal new trade in counterfeit painkillers
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Teenagers can get hooked on one cigarette, a doctor warns.
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WAUWATOSA, Wis. - Doctors said Tuesday they successfully treated a teenager with a usually fatal case of rabies by using a novel combination of drugs.
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CHICAGO The American Medical Association says sweet alcoholic drinks, often referred to as &quot;alco-pop,&quot; are luring a troubling number of teens to engage in underage drinking.
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The death of the influential Southern rapper Pimp C, below, has been ruled an accident attributable to an overdose of drugs celebrated by Three 6 Mafia and the Pimp C group Underground Kingz in the 2000 single âSippinâ on Some Syrup,â The Associated Press reported. The Los Angeles County coronerâs office identified the drugs as codeine and promethazine, essential ingredients of âsyrup.â The coronerâs office said Pimp C, whose real name was Chad Butler, had sleep apnea, an ailment that can cause breathing during sleep to stop for as long as 30 seconds. Capt. Ed Winter of the coronerâs office said that sleep apnea, combined with large amounts of prescription-strength cough syrup, killed Pimp C on Dec. 4 in West Hollywood, Calif. He was 33.
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Ads marketing sweet alcoholic drinks have lured alarming numbers teen drinkers especially girls, reported the American Medical Association (AMA) on Thursday.
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LYLE, Minn. - What seems to be a high school prank gone terribly wrong is getting no laughs from authorities. Collin Wayne Orth, a Lyle High School student, allegedly laced brownies with laxatives and served them to several students and school staff on Feb. 6.
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The telltale signs are ominous: teens holing up in their rooms, ignoring friends, family, even food and a shower, while grades plummet and belligerence soars. The culprit isn't alcohol or drugs. It's video games, which for certain kids can be as powerfully addictive as heroin, some doctors contend.
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A 13-year-old girl who paid off three older teens so they wouldn't tell her parents she smoked soon found herself in even worse trouble: The teens threatened to kill her father if she didn't fork over more money, police said.
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Selling paracetamol and other painkillers in smaller packets  has drastically cut suicide rates, research suggests.
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A hidden epidemic is gaining momentum in America, experts say. Children as young as fourth-graders are deliberately inhaling the fumes of dangerous chemicals from a variety of household and office products.
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Director of National Drug Control Policy John Walters is launching a new campaign urging teens to âsteer clear of pot.â. illegal drug can impair drivers just as much as drinking alcohol.
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Adolescents' retail tastes are bringing Too solid same-store sales.