(10.29) Time to clean out the medicine cabinet and the sock drawer and the glove compartment, and properly dispose of all those expired and no-longer-needed prescription drugs. On Saturday the DEA will be holding its Take Back Day with several locations in and around Providence including local police departments, even the Amtrak Police Department in …
(4.28) The Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General has announced ‘Prescription Drug Take Back Day’ so you can all properly dispose of your unused prescription drugs. No more flushing stuff down the toilet ’cause hormones can get in the drinking water and then your boyfriends start wearing pleated khakis and talking about their feelings …
The reports of the murderous death toll in Mexico directly attributable to drug violence often focus on the cities and towns near our border, where the situation is indeed dire. But it is clear that the problem extends throughout Mexico and that the horror is escalating. The New York Times reports today, The police found …
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The New York Times reports today that people in Rhode Island like their illegal substances. A lot. According to a study released in May by the Department of Health and Human Services, we have the second-highest cocaine usage in the country (after DC), the nation’s highest rate of alcohol consumption, and we apparently smoke more …
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For baseball fans Yaz will always mean one thing — Number 8, Carl Yastrzemski, Hall-of-Fame outfielder for the Boston Red Sox. Now comes Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals (whose greatest hits include Heroin) to sell you Yaz, the drug for that thing you didn’t know you had. Attention Women — this is how The Man keeps us …
So says the Peanut Gallery, at an 83% clip. Sen. Leo R. Blais, D-Coventry, has proposed a bill that would not make marijuana legal in Rhode Island, but would reduce possession of an ounce or less from a crime that carries a potential year of jail time to a civil violation with a maximum penalty …