Category Archives: Drugs

Democrats fear Obama health care plan ‘on the rocks’

By doris | Published: June 22, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com One of the Democratic advisers told CNN there is fear within the party that the president’s signature issue is “on the rocks” because of dramatically high cost estimates for separate bills being drafted by Sens. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts and Max Baucus, D-Montana. The Congressional Budget Office’s estimate for the Kennedy bill [...]

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Drug industry OKs $80 billion Medicare deal

By doris | Published: June 21, 2009

Full Story At msnbc.com WASHINGTON – The pharmaceutical industry agreed Saturday to spend $80 billion over the next decade improving drug benefits for seniors on Medicare and defraying the cost of President Barack Obama’s health care legislation, capping secretive negotiations involving key lawmakers and the White House. “This new coverage means affordable prices on prescription [...]

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Study: U.S. lacks strategy to fight arms smuggling into Mexico

By doris | Published: June 19, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com In Mexico last year, drug violence was blamed for the deaths of 78 soldiers and more than 6,000 others. This year, the drug violence has claimed more than 2,900 lives, according to the newspaper El Universal. Much of the violence has affected the U.S.-Mexico border. Over the last five years, about [...]

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Obama lacks key leaders in drug cartel crackdown

By doris | Published: June 6, 2009

Full Story At Obama lacks key leaders in drug cartel crackdown – Yahoo! News WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has unveiled a broad new strategy to fight violent Mexican drug cartels on the border. It only lacks the presidential choices to run the top U.S. agencies battling drugs, border smuggling and illegal guns. The White [...]

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Smoke break gets more expensive with tax boost

By doris | Published: March 30, 2009

Full Story At news.yahoo.com WASHINGTON – However they satisfy their nicotine cravings, tobacco users are facing a big hit as the single largest federal tobacco tax increase ever takes effect Wednesday. Tobacco companies and public health advocates, longtime foes in the nicotine battles, are trying to turn the situation to their advantage. The major cigarette [...]

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Seattle police chief is Obama’s drug czar choice

By doris | Published: March 12, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has chosen Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske to be the nation’s drug czar and lead a stepped-up campaign against substance abuse, Vice President Joe Biden announced Wednesday. Biden said the 36-year law enforcement veteran will bring to the task a lifetime of experience working on drug [...]

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Drug cartel’s tentacles stretch across the US

By doris | Published: February 26, 2009

Full Story At WASHINGTON – Mexican drug cartels are shipping more than massive quantities of drugs north of the border. Increasingly, they’re also exporting bloody mayhem. Seeking to stem the growing influence of the Sinaloa cartel within the United States, federal agents arrested more than 50 suspects in raids Tuesday night and Wednesday morning at [...]

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