Prescription Opiates

The New Mexico legislature has commissioned a study of emerging and evidence-based harm reduction practices, including supervised injection sites. That could lead the way to a pilot program there. There is also agitation for SIJs in San Francisco and New York City.

Cops continue to have problems keeping their hands off the drugs they come across. And they're developing problems with prescription pills, too.

A North Carolina law aimed at heroin traffickers is rolling up people with pain pills and sending them to prison for a long, long time.

The drug czar has released the 2011 National Drug Control Strategy, and there's little new there but a renewed attack on medical marijuana and legalization. Otherwise, it's pretty much business as usual.

A creaky, half-blind, 69-year-old Virginia man is dead after shooting at police raiding his home for pain pills.

"The Power of the Poppy: Harnessing Nature's Most Dangerous Plant Ally" is reviewed and found most interesting.

While the US wallows in a sea of pain pills, much of the rest of the world goes without, the International Narcotics Control Board reported Wednesday. Not to be too liberal, the INCB is also worried about the rise of designer drugs.