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TRIESTE, Italy — The U.S. is shifting its strategy against Afghanistan's drug trade, phasing out funding for opium eradication while boosting efforts to fight trafficking and promote alternate crops, the U.S. envoy for Afghanistan said Saturday.
CLEVELAND - The death of R&B singer Sean Levert in Cleveland has led to a proposed new policy that provides more flexibility in giving inmates their anti-anxiety medication.
WASHINGTON - Top scientists and career employees at the Food and Drug Administration opposed agency regulations that weaken consumers' ability to sue drug makers, congressional investigators said Wednesday.
The LPGA became the first professional golf tour to announce a drug policy, passing out details to the players Tuesday night at Superstition Mountain Golf and Country Club before releasing it to the media on Wednesday morning.
WASHINGTON - The head of the baseball players' union told Congress on Wednesday that a new drug-testing agreement could be reached next month - after he heard Hank Aaron and other Hall of Famers call for tougher steroid penalties.
Baseball Players Association Executive Director Donald Fehr, talks with members of media following his questioning by members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on the drug use policy for baseball Wednesday.
Queen Creek High School expects to test hundreds of athletes this year in a random drug-testing policy the school board initiated last school year.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is fighting a statewide effort to punish law enforcement officials caught abusing anabolic steroids.
WASHINGTON - Policy debates affecting every corner of the economy are likely to shift in major ways if Tuesday’s election, as expected, gives Democrats more power in Congress.
David Schweikert, the former Maricopa County treasurer, gained a lifelong appreciation for clean government during one of Arizona's dirtiest eras of political corruption.
It seemed like a sign of the times when Diamondbacks managing general partner Jerry Colangelo announced a mandatory autograph policy at the start of spring training. Simply put, give fans something special during hard economic times and they're even more likely to dispose of their disposable income on tickets.
Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske, left, answers a question as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano looks on during a news conference Thursday, July 7, 2011, in Nogales, Ariz. The government's updated security plan for the U.S.-Mexico border keeps its focus on trying to stop drug and gun smuggling but contains an added emphasis on preventing and treating drug use in communities along the border.
KEEPING TRACK: June Carso, the nurse at Sanborn Elementary School in Chandler, gets a log book containing all the information about the drugs she keeps in a cabinet for specific students.
The Scottsdale Police Department is changing, but not tightening, its hiring policies following a seven-week review of its pre-employment drug use standards.
New disclosures about illegal drug use by Scottsdale police employees raise additional questions about the department’s hiring policies, said the president of the Fraternal Order of Police.
Put tennis way ahead of baseball when it comes to dealing with performanceenhancing supplements.
Arizona's voter-approved law legalizing medical marijuana has left a number of decisions to be made.
Arizona's voter-approved law legalizing medical marijuana has left a number of decisions to be made.
Arizona's voter-approved law legalizing medical marijuana has left a number of decisions to be made.
Arizona's voter-approved law legalizing medical marijuana has left a number of decisions to be made.
Scottsdale parents will have to check in their own over-the-counter medicines to the school nurse's office if they want their children to have access to things like Tylenol and Tums this year.
Scottsdale City Councilman and mayoral candidate David Ortega called for a review of police hiring policies Thursday.
Mesa employees convicted of DUI may soon have to start each day by blowing into a tube before climbing behind the wheel of a city vehicle.
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