An Internet meme with potentially risky consequences is sweeping the Web. The question is, can the brutal 'cinnamon challenge' be potentially fatal as well?
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Monday, March 05, 2012 07:50
When Kids Commit Crimes
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In the age of texting, e-mail, Facebook and other forms of communication that teens have available, it can be hard for parents to keep up with all those cryptic abbreviations. But your child's life might depend on you deciphering them. Would you know what "robotripping on DXM" would mean? Or why April 20 is significant to kids who use drugs? Many of today's parents were raised in the era of Just Say No, and while schools still teach that concept,…
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Health officials in Casper, Wyo., are investigating an outbreak of kidney failure linked to a batch of synthetic marijuana known as “spice.”
Three people were hospitalized Friday and two more were treated and released from a hospital in the eastern Wyoming city of 55,000 residents.
The patients, all in their teens and early 20s, reported vomiting, back pain and stomach pain. Officials are investigating reports of…
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As former Los Angeles drug kingpin
"Freeway" Rick Ross awaits the
trial in his publicity rights case against rapper
Rick Ross, he spoke with The BoomBox about
his upcoming…
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Former Los Angeles drug kingpin "Freeway" Rick Ross continues to seek justice in his case against rapper Rick Ross, whom he claims is unlawfully profiting from his name and reputation.
After the lawsuit was…
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2-month 'Operation Street Sweeper' a success for LCSO
LEE COUNTY, Fla.- Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott entered 2012 with the resolve to send a clear message to Lee County felons: "Stop plying your illegal trade on our highways and streets."
In an aggressive, two-month, multi-level approach, detectives with the Sheriff’s Office Narcotics, P.I.L.S. (Pharmaceutical Investigations Law Enforcement Strategy), Vice, Highway Interdiction and…
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Former gang members work to prevent repeat of violence…
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Corrections Officials Ill-Prepared to Run Geriatric Facilities
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The Gray Box: An investigative look at solitary confinement
A few weeks ago, on the fifteenth anniversary of his first day in prison, Osiel Rodriguez set about cleaning the 87 square feet he inhabits at ADX, a federal mass isolation facility in Colorado.
“I got it in my head to destroy all my photographs,” he writes in a letter to me. “I spent some five hours ripping each one to pieces. No one was safe. I did not save one of my mother, father, sisters. Who…
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The Gray Box": An Investigation of Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons
Screen shot from "The Gray Box," via the Dart Society
The box. That's the name for the solitary confinement cell where as many as 80,000 U.S. prisoners live in seclusion.
A new multi-media report by the Dart…
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Sunday, February 19, 2012 04:27
Profiting from Prisons
A man opposes private prisons at an Occupy protest in Valdosta, GA.
Photo by faul, via Flickr.
Early this year, the United Methodist Church Board of Pension and Health Benefits voted to withdraw nearly $1 million in stocks…
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Monday, February 27, 2012 04:59
The World’s ‘Murder Capital,’ Transformed
Juarez Municipal Police have seen a decrease in crime after employing such tactics as stop-and-frisk, often employed in New York City.
Photo by Joseph J. Kolb
Juarez, the Mexican border city once…
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Thursday, March 01, 2012 07:47
Will Ex-Inmates Who Get Jobs Commit Fewer Crimes?
The poor national economy has…
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Pot smoking among teenagers is increasing while teen alcohol consumption has sunk to historic lows, according to a national survey. Of 47,000 American students surveyed, 36.4% of 12th-graders had used marijuana in the past year, up from 32% in 2007, as had 28.8% of 11th-graders and 12.5% of 8th-graders. One in 15 high school seniors smoked pot daily, and one in nine smoked "synthetic" pot at least once.…
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There are many myths and misunderstandings concerning the increase in recent years of teen prescription drug abuse, and not all of them are held by the teens. One…
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There has been an alarming increase in prescription drug abuse reported by teens in recent years and that increase may be due in part to some of the myths…
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This is the new formula for methamphetamine: a two-liter soda bottle, a few handfuls of cold pills and some noxious chemicals. Shake the bottle and the volatile reaction produces one of the world's most addictive drugs.
Only a few years ago, making meth required an elaborate lab — with filthy containers simmering over open flames, cans of flammable liquids and hundreds of pills. The process gave off foul odors, sometimes sparked explosions and was so hard to conceal that dealers often…
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“Shake and Bake” Formula for Making Meth Leads to Influx of Burn Patients in Hospitals
A new method of producing methamphetamine called “shake and bake” is leading to an influx of burn victims in the nation’s hospitals, the Associated Press reports.
A person making meth using this technique combines raw, unstable ingredients in a 2-liter soda bottle. If the cap is removed…
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