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TULSA, Oklahoma — This is the new formula for methamphetamine: a two-liter soda bottle, a few handfuls of cold pills and some noxious chemicals. Shake the bottle and the volatile reaction produces one of the world's most addictive drugs.
Gov. Jan Brewer had not yet even signed SB 1070 when the first calls came for an economic boycott against Arizona to protest the controversial immigration law.
LOS ANGELES - It used to be that celebrities sought treatment for things they put into their mouths. Now it's for things that come out of them.
For the better part of a decade, Alcor Life Extension Foundation operated quietly out of a nondescript building in the Scottsdale Airpark.
Guest commentary by Jose de la Isla
NEW YORK — Invoking the memories of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday urged Congress to make sure the system for background checks on firearms purchases includes the names of everyone prohibited from buying weapons and closes loopholes that allow some sales to take place without checks.
"We cannot wait any longer," said Bloomberg, an advocate for stronger gun control who helped create Mayors Against Illegal Guns. "We cannot turn our backs on this national calamity any longer."
Bloomberg was joined at City Hall by Martin Luther King III, as well as family and friends of those injured and killed in notorious shootings in Tucson, Ariz., at Virginia Tech and Columbine High School in Colorado. There also were people affected by killings that may have never made the news, like a host of New York parents who had lost children in shootings.
Federal law prohibits certain people, like convicted felons, drug abusers and the mentally ill, from being able to purchase firearms, and since 1993, a national background check system has been in place.
But that system is far from complete, Bloomberg said, because all the required records haven't been added to it, and Congress hasn't provided all the funding needed to make sure that happens. For example, he said 10 states haven't submitted any mental health records and 18 states have put in less than 100.
In addition, he said loopholes in the law exempt some gun buyers from undergoing background checks but requires it of others. For example, customers of licensed gun dealers must undergo background checks. But they're not required of those who buy from an "occasional" seller through places such as gun shows, or in private sales.
That creates an opportunity for people who might not pass a background check to still buy weapons.
Bloomberg called Congress should take action to fix those problems. He also said President Barack Obama should speak out on the issue at his State of the Union address this week.
"With our country still mourning the victims of Tucson, we believe it is an opportunity for our president to make a strong pledge to fix our gun laws and shore up our background check system because the state of our union includes the tragic reality that 34 Americans are murdered with guns every single day, and most of them are purchased or possessed illegally," he said.
CHANTILLY, Va. - A new drug store at a Virginia strip mall is putting its faith in an unconventional business plan: No candy. No sodas. And no birth control. Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy is among at least seven pharmacies across the nation that are refusing as a matter of faith to sell contraceptives of any kind, even if a person has a prescription.
Welcome to President Obama’s second term, America — that special place where ridiculousness replaces raison d’etre, and presidents give us things like gun control a’ la United Nations.
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles police say they are looking into allegations that someone drugged Britney Spears but have not decided whether to open a formal investigation.
A three-term state senator wants his colleagues and those who want to serve with him tested for drugs.
Arizona soon will have a new tool to crack down on prescription drug abusers who move from doctor to doctor asking for pain killers.
Carol and Kenneth Dingee used to travel through Yuma to Los Algodones, Mexico, for the prescription drugs they can't afford in the United States. Then the Mesa couple became hobbled by age and disabilities.
October 12, 2004
Bill Richardson: The Legislature is once again asleep at the switch that controls the flow of organized crime in and out of Arizona.
ATLANTA - The personal doctor of pro wrestler Chris Benoit was charged Monday with improperly dispensing painkillers and other drugs.
Drugstore logbooks did little more than collect dust during the first year of East Valley rules that require pharmacists to collect personal information when selling Sudafed and other cold medicines used to brew methamphetamine. In Scottsdale and Chandler, police have never inspected the locally mandated store records in search of meth cooks.
LONDON (AP) — The competition on the track, in the pool and on the playing fields won’t be the only place where medals are won and lost at the Beijing Games.
Planning a trip to Mexico? Forget it.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and children of all ages, once again it's show time.
For the better part of a decade, Alcor Life Extension Foundation operated quietly out of a nondescript building in the Scottsdale Airpark.
Jose de la Isla, guest commentary
Once upon a time there was no drug-related crime in the United States.
MEXICO CITY — Police have arrested five men accused of dozens of murders, including two mass killings at drug treatment centers in this northern Mexico border city.
Arizona law bans marijuana, cocaine and heroin.
A three-term state senator wants his colleagues and those who want to serve with him tested for drugs. The proposal Monday by Sen. Jack Harper, R-Surprise, would not bar anyone from running or even holding office because of a positive test.
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