On April 20, the cannabis community will be celebrating 4/20; a day in that began as a weed smoking moment of solidarity. As years went by, it’s eventually evolved into a day of awareness and myth busting. There’s still a lot of weed smoking, though. Regardless of anyone’s personal stance on cannabis, everyone likely realizes […]
Less than two weeks after the fifth anniversary of Whitney Houston’s passing, her brother, Gary, was spotted passed out in a Chevy Tahoe outside of a well-known drug house in Atlanta. Sign Up For Our Newsletter! According to a source familiar with the house, Gary supposedly purchased $200 worth of heroin and returned to his […]
The Athens County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Interdiction Unit is warning parents about edible drugs. The unit found a bounty of drugs in a Nelsonville home on Thursday. A helpful tip helped police uncover THC in the form of candy, chocolate bars, and butane honey oil commonly known as dabs. Along with drugs, agents found six firearms, […]
In this edition of Faith Walking, Erica Campbell asks, “who can God use?” The answer to that, she reveals, is anybody. She talks about how sometimes we might feel insecure about ourselves to the point where we feel like God can’t use us for his glory. We worry about where our parents come from, the […]
A synthetic marijuana drug known a K2 landed 33 people in the hospital in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
During Friday's edition on NewsOne Now, Jerrold Winter, Ph.D, Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of New York at Buffalo spoke with Roland Martin about pain management, opioid dependence and the true meaning of addition.
Attorney William Mauzy confirmed that Dr. Howard Kornfeld, a California-based specialist and a national authority on opioid addiction treatment, was contacted by representatives for the entertainer who said Prince "was dealing with a grave medical emergency." Mauzy works with the Kornfeld family.
The singer, who died April 21, began requesting foods that were easier to digest, chef Ray Roberts told the AP. He was also fighting off "waves of sore throats and frequent upset stomachs."
Prince‘s longtime lawyer, L. Londell McMillen, vehemently denied rumors that the artist was a drug abuser, arguing that he led a clean and healthy lifestyle, reports The Associated Press: McMillan told the news outlet in a phone interview Monday night that he “spoke to Prince the Sunday before he died, after it was reported that […]
The museum -- which is free to the public from April 19-21 -- will take place on Park Avenue during the United Nations General Assembly Meeting on the world drug problem.
New drug reforms are slated to be presented to the United Nations in April.
Bobby Brown’s latest baby news might have caused him to seek help for his former addictions. According to the New York Daily News, the singer has allegedly returned to rehab following the news he is expecting a seventh child with wife Alicia Etheredge. The two have been married since 2012; Etheredge gave birth to their daughter Bodhi in […]
