WHITNEY HOUSTONS DRUG DEALER SPEAKS HOUSTONS SNORTED THREE OUNCES A WEEK Legendary singer Whitney Houston died from a heart attack induced by excessive cocaine use and heart disease today (February 11, 2012) Whitney Houston sold over 200 million albums in her lifetime, based off of six albums, a holiday album and three movie soundtracks. Houston was found dead in her room in the Beverly Hilton Hotel, after accidentally drowning in her bathtub, just before the 2012 Grammy Awards. In the weeks, leading up to the anniversary of her death, Whitney Houston's mother Sissy has been making the rounds in the media. Cissy Houston's promoting her new memoir "Remembering Whitney." Sissy Houston, 79, discusses her daughter's severe drug dependency problem in the book. "She started partying and she didn't really know how to stop," Cissy Houston said Whitney. "I used to wonder what she was doing at night, where she was." raresoul.com By: raresoulcom … Continue reading →

A disgraced, drug-addicted anaesthetist who infected 55 patients with hepatitis C did not realise his contaminated needles were being used on patients, a court has heard. James Latham Peters, 63, has pleaded guilty to 55 counts of negligently causing serious injury to the women patients by infecting them with the potentially deadly blood disease while they underwent pregnancy terminations at the Croydon Day Surgery between June 2008 and November 2009. His defence barrister John Dickinson, SC, told a pre-sentence plea hearing in Victoria's Supreme Court on Tuesday that after injecting himself in private with the opioid he was addicted to, fentanyl, Peters failed to realise the same syringe which contained "blowback", or his contaminated blood, was then used on the patients. "At no stage of what he did did he intend to use the same syringe, but he did," Mr Dickinson said. Advertisement He said Peters became exposed to drugs after he married his second wife in 1991. By the mid-90s he was "hopelessly addicted". Despite being suspended by the now defunct medical board of Victoria at his own request in 1996, Mr Dickinson described it as "mind-boggling" that an addict would then be allowed to go back to work … Continue reading →

Malta should stop criminalising persons who make use of drugs for personal use, Alternattiva Demokratika said. The Green Party pointed out that Malta should follow the successful model of countries such as Portugal which decriminalised drugs for personal use. AD Chairperson Michael Briguglio said: "Education remains a key tool for policies on drugs. People should be conscious of their various effects and, if they seek help, they should receive it. But criminalising people for making use of drugs has been a failure not only in terms of policy but, even more so, with respect to those whose criminalisation has resulted in a spiral of hardships". He added that "Personal use of drugs should be decriminalised. The victims of drug addiction and dependency are to be considered as persons in need of help and not as criminals." At the same time, Briguglio noted that decriminalisation would ensure that recreational drug users, including those who cultivate soft drugs for personal use, are not criminalised for their lifestyle. AD spokesperson for Citizenship Robert Callus said: "With the emphasis being on punishment rather than prevention, treatment and harm reduction, the war on drugs is proving to be a miserable failure." He added that a … Continue reading →

Public release date: 12-Feb-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Rhiannon Bugno Biol.Psych@utsouthwestern.edu 214-648-0880 Elsevier Philadelphia, PA, February 12, 2013 Scopolamine is an anticholinergic drug with many uses. For example, it prevents nausea, vomiting, and motion sickness. However, scopolamine is re-emerging as an antidepressant, with recent studies showing that scopolamine can rapidly improve mood in depressed patients. In addition, in a new study published in Biological Psychiatry this month by Dr. Moriel Zelikowsky and colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles, it may also be a possible treatment for anxiety disorders. Exposure therapy, where the key goal is the elimination of fear through repeated 'safe' exposure to the threat, is commonly employed for the treatment of anxiety disorders. However, its effectiveness is diminished because humans and animals alike tend to be very sensitive to context, causing extinction learning to be dependent on the environment in which it occurs. This makes memories formed during extinction unstable. As a result, extinguished fears commonly return when people put themselves in new situations. "Current research aimed at treating this problem either employs invasive, untranslatable methods or attempts to strengthen extinction learning rather than prevent relapse," explained senior author Dr. Michael Fanselow. In … Continue reading →