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1 US: Teens' Use Of Illegal Drugs DropsFri, 22 Dec 2006
Source:Washington Times (DC) Author:Price, Joyce Howard Area:United States Lines:108 Added:12/24/2006

Teenagers' use of illegal drugs has declined significantly in the past five years, a new government study shows, although the study found a slight increase in teens abusing prescription painkillers and other legally available substances.

Comparing data from 2001 and 2006, the federal study found the number of teens who reported using marijuana within the past 30 days fell 25 percent, while past 30-day use of methamphetamine plunged 50 percent during the same five-year period.

Teen use of cigarettes, alcohol, steroids, cocaine, heroin and LSD were also down, in some cases dramatically, the report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) found. Underage drinking is down more than a third since it peaked a decade ago. Past-month teen smoking is at an all-time low, with the biggest declines among 12th-graders.

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2 US: Appeals Court OKs Medicinal PotWed, 17 Dec 2003
Source:Washington Times (DC) Author:Price, Joyce Howard Area:United States Lines:96 Added:12/18/2003

Prosecuting sick people under federal law for using medical marijuana on a doctor's advice is unconstitutional, if users grow the drug themselves or obtain it free, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled.

In a 2-to-1 decision Tuesday, the San Francisco-based appeals court concluded that federal law outlawing marijuana does not apply to people who smoke it on a doctor's recommendation in a state that allows it - if the drug is not sold and is not transported across state lines or used for nonmedicinal purposes.

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3 US: Questions Of Law Also Await BallotingMon, 28 Oct 2002
Source:Washington Times (DC) Author:Price, Joyce Howard Area:United States Lines:207 Added:10/28/2002

South Dakotans who go to the polls next week will vote on whether jaywalkers, drug offenders, pickpockets and other lawbreakers o even those who admit guilt o should be given the chance to avoid conviction by claiming they were charged under an unfair law.

"It's a form of jury nullification. You're caught with drugs, but the jury could find you innocent if your attorney convinces them that the law under which you were arrested is unjust," said M. Dane Waters, president of the Initiative and Referendum Institute (IRI), a nonpartisan research group that monitors ballot questions.

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4 US: Education Does Not Stop Needle Sharing, Study ShowsFri, 27 Sep 2002
Source:Washington Times (DC) Author:Price, Joyce Howard Area:United States Lines:102 Added:09/27/2002

Most young injection drug users infected with hepatitis C continue to share needles and other drug paraphernalia, even after being given risk counseling and referred to needle-exchange programs, a new report has found.

The study, published in the Oct. 1 issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, concludes that routine risk-reduction counseling, advocated by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "is of limited benefit" for drug addicts who use needles.

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and the New York Academy of Medicine, who conducted the study in Baltimore, determined that a "more comprehensive approach is needed" to wean injection drug users (IDUs) from sharing needles and drug equipment and thus to reduce the risk of contracting or transmitting hepatitis C.

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5 US NJ: NJ Senator To Fight State's Needle PlanFri, 19 Jul 2002
Source:Washington Times (DC) Author:Price, Joyce Howard Area:New Jersey Lines:107 Added:07/23/2002

A Republican lawmaker from New Jersey plans to fight a proposed state needle-exchange program, using the results of a study that found high- risk sex - not needle sharing - to be the strongest predictor of HIV infection among injection-drug users. Top Stories

Democratic Gov. James E. McGreevey has proposed a hospital-based pilot program in which addicts could exchange dirty needles for clean ones to prevent transmission of HIV and hepatitis.

State Sen. Gerald Cardinale said this week he intends to highlight the findings of the federally funded 10-year study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health as ammunition to oppose Mr. McGreevey's plan.

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