Popular Culture: One-Third of Hit Songs Contain Drug Use References Pop music is full of drug references, researchers have found, most of them positive. Stop the presses!
Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Addiction-Proof Your Child: A Realistic Approach to Preventing Drug, Alcohol, and Other Dependencies," by Stanton Peele (2007, Seven Rivers Press, 258 pp., $14.95 PB) Dr. Stanton Peele has written an excellent, level-headed handbook for parents, educators, and anyone else worried about teen drug use. Read it now!
Law Enforcement: FBI Lowers Bar on Past Marijuana Use by Would-Be Agents Looking to be an FBI agent? The rules on disqualifying applicants based on past drug use, especially marijuana use, just got a little more lax.
Drug Use: One in 12 US Workers Uses Drugs, SAMHSA Says One out of 12 full-time workers in the US reported using drugs within the past month, according to survey data released by SAMHSA.
Feature: Border Blues -- Canada, US Both Bar People Who Used Drugs -- Ever Planning to cross the US-Canadian border? No matter which direction you're going, they don't want you if you ever used drugs.
Feature: In Britain, Labor's Decade-Long Drug War a Failure, New Report Finds As Britain's 10-year drug strategy comes up for renewal or replacement next year, the latest in a long line of reports assailing it has come out.
The Presidency: Past Drug Use Would Disqualify Nominee for Only 19% of Americans, Poll Finds Past drug use by a presidential candidate is close to the bottom of the list of concerns for voters, a Gallup poll has found.
Drug Use: Baby Boomers Most Likely to Have Shot Up Who shoots drugs? Teenage black junkies? Middle-aged white guys? You might be surprised.
Film: "Rock Bottom: Gay Men & Meth" A film by Jay Corcoran "Cautionary ...disturbing,...remarkably candor. [director] Jay Corocoran has never shied away from ...painful and political touchy aspects of gay male sexuality." --Steven Holden, New York Times