Louisiana
Using Drugs Could Do WORSE Than End Your Life
A recent report by Russell R. Russo, MD at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, identified a new source of life-threatening necrotizing fasciitis – bath salts. WebMd defines Necrotizing Fasciitis as a dangerous infection of soft-tissue which starts in the subcutaneous tissue (just below the skin) and spreads along the flat layers of fibrous tissue [...]
Rapper Lil’ Boosie Sentenced
You would think that being incarcerated would make it tough to commit crimes, but if you’re Baton Rouge rapper Lil Boosie, you find a way. On November 29, local hip-hop star Torrence Hatch, known by his stage name Lil Boosie, plead guilty to conspiring to smuggle codeine syrup, marijuana, and ecstasy into two Louisiana state [...]
Narconon Graduate Grateful for Program
A graduate of a nationwide drug rehab provided an interview to the Drug Abuse Solutions blog about how he got into this program and made himself drug free. Our young man had been doing drugs a few years and was not able to get himself off, although he knew it was causing much damage to [...]
Bath Salts – The Facts in an Infographic
This is an amazing infographic courtesy of the Pat Moore Foundation which shows the real facts about bath salt abuse. Louisiana had a major problem with bath salts. At one time it was thought that we were potentially a major distributor or even manufacturer for the drug nationwide. Since Governor Bobby Jindal banned the bath [...]
Medicare and Prescription Drugs
The use and abuse of prescription drugs is all over the news on a daily basis. There are systems that are being put into place so the authorities can monitor what we are doing with these drugs. One of the systems is a database of what drugs you are taking and how much. The Medicare [...]
Designer Drug Chemist Looks Back
John Huffman, 79-year-old professor of organic chemistry, created 460 synthetic cannabinoid compounds for tests on lab animals. He and his team have been working on this since 1984 under a $2 million federal drug research grant. They are studying the interaction between drugs and brain receptors. It was observed by Huffman that the brain receptors [...]
What is the Drug Trend in Louisiana?
The Louisiana Poison center receives about 4 to 5 calls a day. You would think that these would be from mothers who are frantic about their children getting hold of household cleaners or someone who accidently overdosed. No, the calls they are getting as of January this year are about kids sniffing fake bath salts [...]
Bath salts in Louisiana
Half a dozen dangerous chemicals sold as fake bath salts and plant food have been outlawed by emergency order in Louisiana. If you are caught selling them you face penalties just like you sold heroin. This is the result of direct action taken by Governor Bobby Jindal. The powders are sold with the names of [...]
Cocaine and cash seized in Shreveport, Louisiana
A Shreveport drug dealer was recently arrested. Almost a pound of cocaine was found in his car. The drugs had an estimated street value of almost $40,000. Police also seized nearly two thousand dollars in cash from him. According to KSLA, authorities were assisted by the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office K-9 unit, which made a [...]
New Orleans, LA men found guilty for drug offenses
Two New Orleans men were found guilty this week of drug offenses, according to The Times-Picayune. One man, Kerry Smith, a 35 year old New Orleans native, was arrested for selling drugs in front of his house. At the time of his apprehension, more than 100 pieces of crack cocaine were found on his person. [...]
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