Police believe partygoers at Quassy took hallucinogenic

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The drug known as 2C-P, thought to be the cause of the overdoses at Quassy Park, is a synthetic hallucinogen, part of what the Drug Enforcement Administration calls the "2C family" (dimethoxyphenethylamines). According to Alexander Shulgin, … Shulgin …
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Drug testing

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If legislators truly want to help the unemployed in Utah, why focus strictly on drug and alcohol addiction? Many other family problems keep people unemployed: mental illness, domestic violence, poor health and lack of training. Let's provide help for …
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Prescription for pain: Young addict finds road to recovery

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She is part of a generation of adolescents and young adults from middle-class communities around Rhode Island whose easy access to prescription pills has fostered what health officials call an epidemic of prescription drug abuse. Nationally, one in …
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