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Air Pollution Triggers More Heart Attacks Than Cocaine

Doctors should focus more on wider population threats: study

(Newser) - Air pollution causes more heart attacks than cocaine, and is as threatening a trigger as coffee, alcohol, and physical exertion, researchers find. They combined data from 36 individual studies in order to calculate each cause's population-attributable fraction, or PAF—basically, the proportion of all heart attacks attributed to each trigger....

Drug Submarine Seized in Colombia

$2M used to ferry cocaine to Mexico, say officials

(Newser) - A submarine that aimed to ferry masses of cocaine to Mexico has been nabbed off the coast of Colombia. The 100-foot-long fiberglass vessel was found stashed in a jungle area in southwestern Colombia. The sub—big enough to carry four people and eight tons of cargo—was capable of traveling...

Porn Star to Sheen: I'm Pregnant!

It's probably not yours anyway, but who can tell?

(Newser) - Charlie Sheen might have wanted Kacey Jordan to babysit his kids, but probably not quite like this: The porn star is pregnant, she tells Sheen in a text that was magically leaked to TMZ. Jordan says she's pretty sure the baby's not Sheen's, and TMZ notes that he used protection—...

Man Hid Drugs in Penis: Cops
 Man Hid Drugs in Penis: Cops 
Feb 9, 2011 2:19 AM CST

Man Hid Drugs in Penis: Cops

What will cons think of next?

(Newser) - Youch. Kentucky cops have busted a guy carrying a stash of cocaine under the foreskin of his penis, according to authorities. They became suspicious when they found a small bag of crack tied to the waistband of Antoine Banks' boxers as they patted him down for processing into jail on...

Sheen Burned Through Huge Cocaine Balls: Porn Star

And he 'chugs booze like water'

(Newser) - Just how far Charlie Sheen veered off the rails before his hospitalization last week has been revealed by yet another porn star pal, who talks of seeing cocaine chunks the size of tennis balls at the star's last bender. "I've never seen someone so self-destructive and able to take...

Drug-Seeking Burglars Snort Man, Dog Ashes

Teen sniffers were hoping for cocaine, heroin, say cops

(Newser) - Oops. Burglars were so desperate for drugs when they broke into a Florida home that they snorted a powder found in a ceramic urn. But they didn't get even a hint of a buzz because they had inhaled some of the cremated remains of the former man of the house...

Cocaine 'Vaccine' Could Help Addicts Kick Habit

Researchers trick body's immune system into attacking the drug

(Newser) - A vaccine that diminishes the high of cocaine in rats could someday help human addicts kick the habit, LiveScience reports. Researchers created the vaccine by combining a virus associated with the common cold—for its ability to trigger the body's immune system—with a cocaine-like molecule. It showed promise when...

Navy Man Nailed With Powder Leaps to Death at Airport

He denied drugs were his; tests find no cocaine

(Newser) - A Los Angeles-bound US Navy officer jumped to his death at the Manila airport after being caught at an X-ray machine with a packet of white power believed to be cocaine in his bags. Tests later showed the packet held no illegal drugs, reports AP. Filipino officials, however, confirmed to...

Coca Leaves Chewed Way Earlier Than Thought

They date back 8,000 years in South America

(Newser) - Peruvians chewed coca leaves more than 8,000 years ago, say researchers who've found the earliest evidence of usage of the plant, the BBC reports. Scientists knew that South Americans chewed the leaves but had previously dated the first use to 5,000 years ago. Coca, the plant from which...

Sheen's Team Scours NYC for Bender Video

Charlie's phone still missing, might contain evidence of antics

(Newser) - Charlie Sheen may still be partying hard in LA, but his reps are pounding the pavement in New York for video evidence of his epic bender last week. Sheen's people are worried that security cameras in the Plaza Hotel's restaurant and elevators could've caught some of his crazy behavior, but...

87-Year-Old Granny Jailed for Dealing Crack

Ola Mae Agee will turn 88 in prison

(Newser) - Meet Ola Mae Agee, perhaps the world’s oldest drug dealer. The 87-year-old grandmother was found guilty last week of selling cocaine from the living room of her Florida home after an undercover police officer bought $20 worth of crack from her, the Pensacola News Journal reports. Agee, who served...

Charlie Sheen on Another Cocaine-and- Hookers Bender

He's 'going to die this week,' a friend says

(Newser) - Surely, Charlie Sheen learned his lesson about hookers and cocaine after his latest binge turned left a $7,000 trail of destruction in his hotel room. Or not. Since he got home from New York, Sheen has been on a bender: His “cocaine use is out of control,”...

Inside 'Frothing' Sheen's Rampage: Cocaine, Hooker

Raging Charlie accused prostitute of stealing his wallet

(Newser) - Charlie Sheen’s latest escapade is even grosser than originally reported: Turns out the Two and a Half Men star was allegedly doing cocaine and hanging out with a hooker before going on a hotel-trashing rampage that ended up costing him $7,000 in damages. When police found him, Sheen...

Angie Did Cocaine, Heroin in Front of Me: Dealer

And her old apartment sounds predictably creepy

(Newser) - We all know Angelina Jolie has a wild and crazy past —but according to her former drug dealer, that past includes a lot more than just sleeping with other people’s husbands . “We'd see each other two to three times a week when she was in town. She...

Arrest Warrant Issued for Lohan
 Arrest Warrant Issued for Lohan 
PLUS, 'MILKOHOLIC' SETTLED
Sep 20, 2010 3:36 PM CDT

Arrest Warrant Issued for Lohan

Hopefully, LiLo's ready to face those consequences

(Newser) - We can't think of many, but we're sure Lindsay Lohan's made better life decisions than dabbling with cocaine and meth while on probation. La Lohan's parole has now been revoked and an arrest warrant issued, reports TMZ, though the gossip site notes that the warrant is being held until the...

Drug Use Hits 8-Year High
 Drug Use Hits 8-Year High 
Sep 16, 2010 1:19 AM CDT

Drug Use Hits 8-Year High

Marijuana, meth, ecstasy use up, cocaine down

(Newser) - Illegal drug abuse in America has soared to its highest rate in almost a decade, according to a government report which finds marijuana, methamphetamine, and ecstasy use surging, but cocaine declining. Some 21.8 million Americans used illegal drugs last year, a 9% increase from the year before and the...

Wyclef Jean: Sean Penn Too 'Coked Up' to See Me in Haiti

Singer slams back after Penn diss over Haitian prez plans

(Newser) - An angry Wyclef Jean is blasting back at Sean Penn for dissing his plans to run for Haiti's presidency, saying the outspoken actor likely didn't notice his activism in the island nation because maybe "he was too busy sniffing cocaine." Penn slammed the hip-hopper's presidential aspirations by telling...

Cop Followed Hilton SUV's 'Vapor Trail'

Then she reached for lip balm, dropped coke bag

(Newser) - If you're going to smoke a joint, you probably shouldn't do it while driving: 1) an ostentatious vehicle; 2) down the Las Vegas strip; 3) with open windows; 4) past a cop. All of the above would seem to explain Paris Hilton's latest legal woes, reports the AP. A Las...

Paris Hilton Busted on Cocaine Charge

What happened in Vegas didn't stay in Vegas

(Newser) - It was probably just the stress of some guy with "knifes" trying to break into her digs, but Paris Hilton has had another run-in with the law: The heiress has been arrested after Las Vegas cops say they found cocaine in her possession, reports TMZ. Seems Hilton was the...

Cops Confront Snake Guarding Cocaine

(Newser) - Before police in Canada found bears guarding a marijuana grow-op, Italian police astoundingly found a snake doing the same, but with cocaine. When police entered a flat in Rome, they were greeted with a 10-foot hissing albino python coiled around a 200-gram cache of the white powder. After feeding the...

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