“Drugs” on The Daily Caller

Leslie Carter died of a drug overdose on Tuesday, according to a police report filed Thursday. (more)

Our nation could use an immigration strategy that actually secures our border, uses our brains and shows the world we have hearts. (more)

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A severe shortage of drugs for chemotherapy, infections and other serious ailments is endangering patients and forcing hospitals to buy life-saving medications from secondary suppliers at huge markups because they can’t get them any other way. (more)

The Food and Drug Administration called on Congress Tuesday to make the laws that govern the global prescription drug economy stronger. (more)

The number of wiretaps conducted by federal and state law enforcement in 2010 jumped 34 percent from the prior year, according to a new federal report. (more)

Glenn and Kathy Kiederer’s 12-year-old daughter wanted to join the school scrapbooking club. The Shohola couple was surprised at the consent form she brought home two years ago. It acknowledged that to be in the club, she would undergo a urine test for drugs and submit to random drug tests in the future. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — A high-level international panel slammed the war on drugs as a failure Thursday and called on governments to undertake experiments to decriminalize the use of drugs, especially marijuana, to undermine the power of organized crime. (more)

Calling the global war on drugs a costly failure, a group of high-profile world leaders is urging the Obama administration and other governments to end “the criminalization, marginalization and stigmatization of people who use drugs but do no harm to others.” (more)

Several states have started reassessing their medical marijuana laws after stern warnings from the federal government that everyone from licensed growers to regulators could be subjected to prosecution. (more)

CHICAGO — State and federal authorities have recovered more than a ton of marijuana from a warehouse on Chicago’s West Side and arrested two men as part of a drug sting. (more)

Hundreds of local and federal police officers who fanned out across Baltimore at dawn yesterday, hauling suspects out of homes and off the streets, announced at days’ end they had shut down one of the city’s major sources of illicit drugs and violence. (more)

Although the U.S. Senate voted along partisan lines Wednesday to defeat repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare — it overwhelmingly on the same day voted to repeal one of the provisions that has proven most burdensome to entrepreneurs: the mandate for business to file IRS 1099 reports on any purchase over $600. (more)

Authorities found a man bound and unconscious with “the bloody remains of one of his ears dangling from his head” inside the trunk of a BMW yesterday, NY Daily News reports.  Cops came across the grisly discovery while investigating a hit-and-run accident in Manhattan. (more)

Five Columbia University students have been snared in an undercover drug sting dubbed “Operation Ivy League.” They stand accused of selling a menu of narcotics out of fraternity houses and on-campus residences, authorities said Tuesday. (more)

CVS/Pharmacy will pay a record $75 million to settle a case brought by federal prosecutors accusing the drugstore giant of not doing enough to safeguard the sale of cold medicines used to produce methamphetamine. (more)

SYDNEY (AFP) – – “Star Wars” actress Carrie Fisher admitted Monday to taking cocaine on the set of “The Empire Strikes Back”, saying she didn’t even like the drug but was intent on getting high. (more)

Uncle Sam wants your drugs! This Saturday the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is sponsoring a nationwide prescription drug “take-back,” at 4,000 locations around the country. Seeking to address the fact that in 17 states prescription drug combination overdoses kill more people than traffic accidents, and that prescription drug related treatment admissions have recently increased 400%, the DEA will collect your unused medications, no questions asked. (more)

On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold a hearing to consider an exceptional intrusion into personal consumer choice: an advisory committee of the agency is meeting to debate whether commonly-used cough and cold medications should require a prescription. (more)

It is not easy being Paris Hilton. You have to spend so much of your time focused on the “being Paris Hilton” part that it leaves very little time for much else. Like considering the state of the nation. Or remembering what pictures you tweeted a month ago. (more)

Federal health regulators are weighing restrictions on Robitussin, NyQuil and other cough suppressants to curb cases of abuse that send thousands of people to the hospital each year. (more)