Authorities Crack Down on Drinking While Boating
A new program is reminding boaters that while drinking alcohol on the water isn’t illegal, driving a boat while intoxicated is. 
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Bar missing student visited draws many fake IDs
The Associated Press The Associated Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind. The company that runs a bar where a missing Indiana University coed was drinking before she disappeared four weeks ago has been the scene of citations for fake IDs by Indiana Excise police over the last 18 months. The Herald-Times reports that 64 percent of the 188 tickets issued to people under 21 for possessing a fake ID were written …
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County to crack down on underage drinking
Lane County government is trying to iron out the wrinkles in a 1-year-old law meant to crack down on underage drinking. If changes to the rule are adopted next month, officials say the sheriff’s office will have an effective tool for discouraging parents and others from allowing illegal parties on …
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More than 100 minors ticketed at two underage drinking parties
Police busted two underage drinking parties in Des Plaines in the last four days, ticketing more than 105 minors for drinking inside a home and car wash.
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Binge drinking linked to brain damage 0
Binge drinking among young adults could cause serious damage to developing brains, according to a new study.
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Australian police crack down on ‘boozed-up idoits’
Australian police have arrested more than 1,600 “boozed-up idiots” during a nationwide crackdown on alcohol-fuelled violence and crime.
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Aus arrests 1 600 ‘boozed-up idiots’
Australia’s binge-drinking culture has been starkly highlighted with 1 600 “boozed-up idiots” arrested in a crackdown on alcohol-fuelled violence and crime.
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Crack cocaine, a new menace, Dec. 6, 1985
Here’s a look at the past. Items have been culled from The Chronicle’s archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. 1985 Dec. 6: A “super cocaine” more potent and addictive than conventional coke is attracting and…

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Alcohol is the most lethal drug, outranking heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana
LONDON—Alcohol is more dangerous than illegal drugs like heroin and crack cocaine, according to a new study. British experts evaluated substances including alcohol, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and marijuana, ranking them based on how destructive they are to the individual who takes them and to society as a whole.

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Alcohol is more harmful than heroin or crack: study
Alcohol is even worse than heroin and crack on the list of “most harmful” drugs, according to a new study published in the British medical journal.

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Experts: Alcohol More Harmful Than Crack or Heroin
Alcohol abuse is more harmful than crack or heroin abuse, according to a new study by a former British government drug advisor and other experts.

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Alcohol Is Most Harmful Drug, Followed By Heroin And Crack
Alcohol is the most damaging drug to the drinker and others overall, heroin and crack are the second and third most harmful, Professor David Nutt and colleagues wrote in the medical journal The Lancet today. When all factors related to self harm and harm to others are considered, alcohol comes out top. The authors explain that drugs, including tobacco products and alcohol are major contributors …

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Alcohol worse than crack, heroin
LONDON: Alcohol is a more dangerous drug than both crack and heroin when the combined harms to the user and to others are assessed, British scientists said Monday.

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Drug Experts Say Alcohol Worse than Crack or Heroin
According to British scientists, alcohol is a more dangerous drug than both crack and heroin when the combined harms to the user and to others are assessed.

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Alcohol tops crack, heroin
A major new study proves alcohol is more dangerous to society than illegal drugs like crack cocaine and ecstasy.

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Housing crack down on bad neighbours
NOISY neighbours making their fellow residents’ lives a misery could be blacklisted from any other Island rental properties in a Housing crackdown on anti-social behaviour.

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Drinkaware Response To Plans By The Government To Crack Down On Binge Drinking Hotspots, UK
Responding to the plan by the Government to crack down on binge drinking hotspots and give communities more influence over licensing applications, Chris Sorek, Chief Executive of alcohol awareness charity Drinkaware, says: “Alcohol misuse costs society £25 billion a year* and it is imperative our culture’s binge drinking problem is tackled head on. Drink related anti-social behavior causes …

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You want drunk driving reform: Crack down on first offenses
Beating up on the alcoholics is not going to fundamentally change the drinking and driving culture in Wisconsin. Those people need treatment. If anybody needs a day in jail, it’s the people who have never been caught before and never think they’ll get caught again.

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Elderly Man Alerts Police To Crack Stash At His Home
Officers contacted 78-year-old Martin Luther King Adams in reference to possible drug activity at his residence. Adams told officers his live-in home care provider; 53-year-old Andrea Mattingly was bringing narcotics abusers and alcoholics to his residence. Adams and Mattingly gave consent to search the residence. Officers located a large amount of paraphernalia and a quantity of crack in a …

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Katy Guest: A tall skinny latte to go, then we’ll crack world peace
It is one of life’s most enraging paradoxes that the most stressful ritual of the day, purchasing the morning coffee, has to happen before one has had the morning coffee.

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York Co. Police Crack Down On Prescription Drug Use
Police told Eyewitness News they’re seeing a dangerous trend in York County: Young people are overdosing on a deadly mix of prescription drugs.

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Health Care Practitioners Call For National Database To Crack Down On Prescription Drug Abuse
The Associated Press reports on efforts in California, where “a state online drug database went into effect last year to thwart addicts who bounce from doctor to doctor to feed a habit or make a small fortune peddling meds” and efforts to set up a national program “to snare so-called doctor shoppers and curb drug abuse. … Doctors can be hamstrung in making critical decisions about prescribing …

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Teen Users Of Crack And Cocaine At Significant Risk For HIV
Teens with a history of crack or cocaine use are significantly more likely to engage in unprotected sex than youth who have never used these drugs, putting themselves at increased risk for HIV, according to a study in the April issue of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse. Researchers from the Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center report that teens in psychiatric care who …

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