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Mexico has long been a pipeline for drugs into the United States. But decades of drug trafficking has left at least 1 million Mexicans addicted to heroin, cocaine and other drugs. Addicts trying to quit are filling clinics, while cartels are fighting in northern Mexico over billion-dollar smuggling routes.
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Sometimes there is just a hint or two of addiction, that something is not quite right. It becomes far more painful if you wait till later, when you are desperate to stop and don't know how to. It is equally as painful to watch someone close sink into the degradation which accompanies full-blown addiction. On the way, everyone will have suffered increasing damage from rages, arguments, financial difficulties, social embarrassments, stress, unpredictability, accidents and injuries, and emotional and physical illnesses.
The good news is: there are solutions that work. And you do not have to reach the worst stages of addiction before you try them and reverse your situation. And best of all you can start right now, right here! »»»
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First Ever Large-Scale Study of Ketamine Users Published
 Amy Molnar
The first ever large-scale, longitudinal study of ketamine users has been published online today in the journal Addiction.
Is Smoking Back?
 Associated Press
Cigarette smoking rose slightly for the first time in almost 15 years, dashing health officials' hopes that the U.S. smoking rate had moved permanently below 20 percent.
Texas Agency Refuses to Make Community Drug Use Data Available Online
 ProtectYouth.org
Craig Johnson, executive director of the drug prevention nonprofit ProtectYouth.org, called on Commissioner David Lakey of the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) to authorize the publishing of local school district results from the Texas School Survey on Drug and Alcohol Use to a document-sharing website Scribd.com and link the reports to their state website.
800,000 Americans Busted Annually for Pot
 Sherwood Ross
Seven million Americans have been arrested since 1995 on marijuana charges and 41,000 of them are rotting in federal and State prisons - but the public is starting to rebel against "the preposterous war on pot," two political scientists say. Thousands of other pot users and sellers are confined in local jails as well.
Stress-Induced Changes in Brain Circuitry Linked to Cocaine Relapse
 Leila Gray
Stress-evoked changes in circuits that regulate serotonin in certain parts of the brain can precipitate a low mood and a relapse in cocaine-seeking, based on mouse studies published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Alcohol Tolerance Switch Found in Fruit Flies
 Dr. Robert Anholt
Researchers at North Carolina State University have found a genetic switch in fruit flies that plays an important role in making flies more tolerant to alcohol.
Cocaine Use Doubles in Mexico in Six Years
 Agence France-Presse
Cocaine use doubled in Mexico in the six years to 2008, the health minister said Friday, arguing that tougher border controls on smuggling has pushed more of the drug into the domestic market.
Mexico's Rising Drug Use and Addiction - Who is to Blame?
 Sylvia Longmire
Over the past year, several media reports have detailed the exploding domestic drug market in Mexico, as well as soaring drug dependency rates. The reasons for Mexico's transition from being mainly a "transport country" to becoming a "consumer country" are rather simple.
Mexico Drug Gangs in New Battle for Local Addicts
 Julian Cardona
Mexico's violent drug gangs are fighting over home-grown addicts in the dingy back streets of northern border cities, creating new turf wars that will further stretch the country's security forces.
Cocaine Addiction Vaccine Shows Some Success
 HealthDay News
A vaccine to help cocaine addicts beat their habit is showing some effect but is far from a cure, researchers report.
Mexico Confronting a Drug Addiction Epidemic
 Dudley Althaus
Cheap and plentiful narcotics have flooded the country as producers and traffickers have sought to open new markets for cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs.
Mexico Drug Law is "Tool" Against Cartels: US
 Robin Emmott
Washington is closely watching Mexico's recent decriminalization of drugs but respects its neighbor's move as a tool in the fight against drug cartels, two senior U.S. officials said last week.
Mexico's Hypocritical Tobacco Laws vs. Allowed Drug Use
 Bernd Debusmann Jr
Last month, the Mexican government adopted a law that decriminalizes the possession of small amounts of drugs. Little attention, however, has been paid to the fact that as far as tobacco is concerned, the Mexican government is going in the opposite direction.
US Drug Arrests Declined Slightly in 2008, FBI Reports
 Drug War Chronicle
The number of people arrested for drug offenses in the United States declined slightly last year, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report. And for the first time since 2002, the number of people arrested on marijuana charges also declined.
 Video: Iraq Emerging as Drug Transshipment Point
 Al Jazeera
Since the 2003 US-led invasion, Iraq has witnessed a dramatic rise in the cultivation and trafficking of drugs. Reports indicate that drug abuse is on the rise among Iraqi youth and that armed militias have muscled in on this lucrative trade.
51% Rate Alcohol More Dangerous Than Marijuana
 Rasmussen Reports
Fifty-one percent (51%) of American adults say alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 19% disagree and say pot is worse.
Mexico and Argentina Move Towards Decriminalising Drugs
 Rory Carroll, Jo Tuckman, & Tom Phillips
Argentina and Mexico have taken significant steps towards decriminalising drugs amid a growing Latin American backlash against the US-sponsored "war on drugs".
Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession
 Mark Stevenson
Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday a move that prosecutors say makes sense even in the midst of the government's grueling battle against drug traffickers.
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