| Beating The Addiction
Fewer teenagers are using drugs like marijuana and methanphetamines, but more teens are abusing prescription pain killers. A national teen drug use report released by President Bush found that highly addictive narcotic pain killers are as popular as ever among 50,000 teens surveyed. And that is a trend that is seen in South Dakota as well. They're known for knocking out severe pain and helping patients with chronic illnesses, but pain killers aren't being used by just the sick. "I tried it at a party actually first time, and a lot of people were doing it. I tried it and I fell in love with it first time I did it," a teen patient said. This teen can't be identified because she's going through treatment at Keystone's treatment Center. Her addiction to Oxycontin landed her here. "I didn't like the taste at first but I got used to it and I'd fene for that taste..that drip in the back of your throat," the patient said.
Las Vegas teen OD's on prescription meds
When you tell a doctor you're in pain, you expect an examination, and maybe a prescription for relief. But pain medication can be as addictive as heroin, and prescription drugs contribute to more overdose deaths than illegal street drugs. In a News 3 hidden camera investigation, Darcy Spears tells us how one young man's minor medical issue became a major addiction.
John Delprete began taking pain pills as a teenager. After four years, his habit became too hard to handle. The amount of drugs he was prescribed, and the end result of his taking them all, has led to an investigation by the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners for what his parents claim was a preventable death.
"He was a very loving kid, always said, I love you mom, always gave hugs, was very understanding," said Donna Delprete, John's mother.
Border fails the test of undercover U.S. investigators
Congress, sent out investigators to test how hard it would be to transfer large red duffel bags at unguarded and unmonitored spots along the 8,000-kilometre border. The tests were done from four northern states, which were not identified. The exercises were videotaped and photographed. The details of the investigation were outlined in a 13-page report that will be given to Congress. During one of the tests, a citizen noticed the unusual activity and alerted a border official, but by the time authorities came to the scene, they could not locate the undercover investigators. "Our work shows that a determined cross-border violator would likely be able to bring radioactive materials or other contraband undetected into the United States by crossing the U.S.-Canada border at any of the locations we investigated," the accountability office report states.
N.S. bylaw will ban smoking in cars with kids
Record numbers of children are becoming asthmatic very early in life these days. Do all of their parents puff in the car with them? Passing laws against smokers is like beefing about somebody taking a pee while you are standing in a septic tank. You people claim to care so much about "the children" yet do nothing as American bombs rain down on countless children the world over, (with the support of our storm troopers from America's vassal state "Canada"), while others are starved out of existence from the enacting of the psychopathic, neo-liberal corporatist agenda of Western elites. Personal indulgences like giant pollution spewing vehicles do way more damage than "second hand smoke" yet if they were "banned" tomorrow, the cry from status grubbing consumer meatheads would be absurd.
A portrait of Yacoub Cattaui, scion of a once prom
Antiquities in Egypt are not hard to find, and the money was split among 50 projects. At the suggestion of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), two of those projects were drawn from the slew of deteriorating sites that belong to Egypts smallest, but perhaps oldest, religious minority: the Jewish community. An estimated 80,000 Jews lived in Cairo in 1948, and Egypt for a long time was a haven for Arab, Mediterranean and even European Jewish culture. Jews trace their presence in Egypt to biblical times; Judaic tradition maintains that the Hebrews built tombs and temples for the Pharaohs. Pesach, one of the faiths major holidays, recounts the story of the Jewish sojourn by the Nile. Today, fewer than 100 Jews remain in Egypt, mostly elderly widows. ARCE sent architects to study the synagogues of Haim Kapucci and Maimonides, two decrepit synagogues in Harat El-Yahud, the one-time Jewish Quarter in the heart of downtown Cairo.
Wispa it, but Cadbury's success is down to a bar they ditched
In June, two fans stormed the stage at Glastonbury during Iggy Pop's set to hold up a "Bring Back Wispa" poster. The firm's decision to produce a trial batch in October was heralded as a victory for consumer power. But there was bad news for chocolate lovers yesterday as Cadbury's warned that the price of its products would continue to rise by well above inflation following sharp rises in the cost of milk, oil and cocoa. "It is inevitable some chocolate prices will go up to compensate for very significant increases in costs," said Ken Hanna, Cadbury's finance director. ICONIC RETURNWISPA bars have joined the likes of Raleigh "chopper" bikes and red phone boxes as an iconic product whose place in the nation's affections was not noticed until it had been scrapped. Other examples include the Mini and the VW Beetle, below, cars which were so popular with consumers that manufacturers had t .
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