via Times of San Diego
A man goes to retrial after pleading guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter after crashing into a car while high from huffing duster. A nine-year-old girl died 12 days later from complications from a brain injury. Five canisters of computer cleaner was found in his vehicle and high levels of difluorethane was found in his blood. His defense attorney claims his behavior was due to a prescription drug he had been taking.
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Showing posts with label prescription drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prescription drugs. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
GRAAB Coalition Makes Strides With Grant
Via Cleveland Daily Banner in Ohio
Bradley County’s GRAAB (Going Respectfully Against Addictive Behavior) Coalition recognizes that inhalant and prescription drug abuse are “two of the nation’s fastest-growing substance abuse categories.” The Coalition is making use of a grant from the National Drug Free Committee which “aims to contribute to the expansion of the community effort to reduce, prevent and even eliminate the use of illegal and illicit narcotics, with a special focus on inhalant and prescription drug abuse.” With the help of $125,000 in awarded funding for the year, the GRAAB coalition is putting on a 31-day mixture of community awareness programs on the dangers of addictions.
Bradley County’s GRAAB (Going Respectfully Against Addictive Behavior) Coalition recognizes that inhalant and prescription drug abuse are “two of the nation’s fastest-growing substance abuse categories.” The Coalition is making use of a grant from the National Drug Free Committee which “aims to contribute to the expansion of the community effort to reduce, prevent and even eliminate the use of illegal and illicit narcotics, with a special focus on inhalant and prescription drug abuse.” With the help of $125,000 in awarded funding for the year, the GRAAB coalition is putting on a 31-day mixture of community awareness programs on the dangers of addictions.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Three Men Face Drug Charges After Huffing Incident
A man spotted huffing an aersol spray in a McDonalds drive thru led to three men are facing drug charges.
According to police a McDonald's employee spotted a man huffing from a can while in the drive thru line.
When police arrived all three men in the vehicle were questioned. The driver passed field sobriety tests but when one of the passengers was asked to step outside of the car a prescription pain killer was found on his seat.
After all three men denied ownership of the pill several others were found in the car, along with a used canister of industrial strength aerosol spray.
All three men were arrested and the man reported to be huffing faces an additional charge for allegdly inhaling toxic vapors.
Via nwitimes.com in Munster, IN
According to police a McDonald's employee spotted a man huffing from a can while in the drive thru line.
When police arrived all three men in the vehicle were questioned. The driver passed field sobriety tests but when one of the passengers was asked to step outside of the car a prescription pain killer was found on his seat.
After all three men denied ownership of the pill several others were found in the car, along with a used canister of industrial strength aerosol spray.
All three men were arrested and the man reported to be huffing faces an additional charge for allegdly inhaling toxic vapors.
Via nwitimes.com in Munster, IN
Monday, August 31, 2009
Driver Passes Out In Traffic
From WSAZ News Channel 3 in St. Albans, West Virginia
West Virginia Police issuing a routine vehicle inspection point over the weekend discovered an unmoving vehicle in line to be the cause of traffic back up and delays. Police found the vehicle’s 18 year-old male driver passed out at the wheel along with an unconscious female passenger. Officers believe both were “huffing inhalants” and taking prescription drugs in the car, as a bottle of Oxycodone was recovered from the driver’s possession.
According to police reports the teen driver was also involved in an accident just hours before being discovered unconscious, wherein extensive damage was elicited to a chain link fence bordering a local car dealership. The driver is currently in jail, and is being held on charges related to a handful of crimes including; DUI, simple possession, fleeing the scene of an accident, and driving without a license.
West Virginia Police issuing a routine vehicle inspection point over the weekend discovered an unmoving vehicle in line to be the cause of traffic back up and delays. Police found the vehicle’s 18 year-old male driver passed out at the wheel along with an unconscious female passenger. Officers believe both were “huffing inhalants” and taking prescription drugs in the car, as a bottle of Oxycodone was recovered from the driver’s possession.
According to police reports the teen driver was also involved in an accident just hours before being discovered unconscious, wherein extensive damage was elicited to a chain link fence bordering a local car dealership. The driver is currently in jail, and is being held on charges related to a handful of crimes including; DUI, simple possession, fleeing the scene of an accident, and driving without a license.
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