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DA: Bath salts suspected in Hawley head-gnawing attack
By Denis J. O’Malley The Times-Tribune, Scranton September 14, 2012 Authorities suspect the Doylestown man who allegedly gnawed on a woman’s head in Hawley after stripping his clothes and jumping from a second-story window on Friday may have been under the influence...
Tempe Naked Man on Bath Salts No. 3: Noah McQueen Fought Imaginary Bugs in Coffee Shop
By Matthew Hendley Seriously, Tempe: put down the bath salts, and put on your clothes. For the third time this week, Tempe police have arrested a naked person doing really weird things, and in each case, the person in question told police they had ingested the...
Tempe Naked Man on Bath Salts No. 2: Police Say Michael Hurtado Was Making Out With a U-Haul Steering Wheel and a Cop Car
By Matthew Hendley The Tempe Police Department was probably not messing around Wendesday when it issued a public warning about the chemicals known as "bath salts." After finding 23-year-old Sean-Paul Branscome slamming himself against walls and jogging around a Tempe...
Tempe Joins the Naked-Man-on-Bath-Salts Train Thanks to Sean-Paul Branscome
By Matthew Hendley If you haven't heard a story recently about a naked person high on the chemicals known as "bath salts," you have not been paying attention. Thanks to 23-year-old Sean-Paul Branscome, the Tempe Police Department is holding a press conference right...
13 Sobering Facts About Teen Substance Abuse
13 Sobering Facts About Teen Substance Abuse A new report finds that 76 percent of high school students have used tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs, and one-fifth of them may be addicted. These alarming figures highlight the urgent need for parents and...
One In Eight U.S. Teens Misuses Pain Drugs
One in eight older U.S. teenagers has used powerful painkiller drugs without prescriptions, and many of them start misusing the pills at age 16 or 17, earlier than was previously assumed, according to new research released on Monday. The findings published in the...
National Survey Results On Teen Drug Abuse For 2012
article by Janel Spencer The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASAColumbia) released their findings this month from the 17th annual 2012 National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse (XVII: Teens). According to the...
Up to 20,000 marijuana plants found in Cherokee County
POSTED: Friday, August 31, 2012 - 9:59am Nicole Underwood Assistant News Director/ KETK News CHEROKEE COUNTY — Marijuana plants up to 8 feet tall have been found within four patches of plants near the Angelina River, in eastern Cherokee County. The plants were found...
Are Parents Blind to Rising School Drug Use?
By Salynn Boyles 4 of 5 High School Students Exposed, Survey Shows Drug use in the nation’s schools is increasing and parents are not aware of the extent of the problem, a new survey suggests. Drugs and alcohol have become so common in the nation’s middle and high...
Parents Frequently Asked Questions About Drug Testing in Schools
What is drug testing? Some schools, hospitals, or places of employment conduct drug testing. There are a number of ways this can be done, including: pre-employment testing, random testing, reasonable suspicion/cause testing, post-accident testing, return to duty...