MIAMI (Billboard) – When the Mexican Navy gunned down notorious Mexican drug cartel chief Arturo Beltran Leyva in December, tribute videos started popping up on YouTube almost immediately. They showed pictures of Beltran Leyva, aka “el Jefe de Jefes” (the Chief of Chiefs), with stacks of money, guns and bags of cocaine as the backdrop to catchy corridos (narrative ballads) exalting his life and times.
Such exhibitions of adulation,
Michael Lohan has stepped up his campaign to save his daughter Lindsay - revealing she buys prescription drugs from one of Hollywood’s biggest dealers.
Lohan shocked his daughter’s fans by alleging the Mean Girls star is addicted to pills, and has become a shadow of her former self. He recently told reporters he fears she is heading for an early grave like tragic superstars Michael Jackson and Heath Ledger.
He said, “I’m going to get her off the prescription drugs that (more…)
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Rapper Lil Wayne will go on trial next March on felony drug possession and weapons charges he faces in Yuma County, Ariz.
The trial date was set during a court hearing in Yuma on Thursday.
The case against Lil Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, stems from his arrest at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 8 east of Yuma in January 2008. Authorities said they found cocaine,
NEW YORK (AP) — DJ AM died accidentally from a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs and cocaine, the medical examiner’s office ruled Tuesday.
The toxicology report showed the 36-year-old had in his system cocaine, OxyContin, hydrocodone or Vicodin, antianxiety drugs Xanax and Ativan, Klonopin which also controls anger, Benadryl, and levamisole, a drug apparently used to cut cocaine.
The cause of
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A maker of the potent anesthetic propofol found in Michael Jackson’s home has been contacted by federal officials investigating the pop star’s death and has recalled tens of thousands of vials of the drug after two tainted lots sickened dozens of patients.
There is no apparent connection between the bacterial contamination that prompted the recall and Jackson’s death on June 25, Teva Pharmaceuticals
The government’s drug czar says that Michael Jackson’s death is a wake-up call to the nation about prescription drug abuse.
Gil Kerlikowske, chief of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, says more people are dying in the United States from drug overdoses than from gunshot wounds.
Kerlikowske said Thursday on CBS’ “The Early Show” that parents are the key to addressing the problem of misuse of prescription drugs.
Hip-hop star Eminem turned to an unlikely counselor to help him battle his addiction to painkillers - flamboyant rock star Elton John.
The Stan hit-maker became a recluse following the release of his last album, Encore, in 2004 as he fought his drug demons. Although he has been clean for a year, at the height of his drug problems the star was reportedly popping 20 painkillers a day and nearly overdosed on methadone.
However it was his friendship with former cocaine
Rapper Snoop Dogg’s medical marijuana dependency may help keep an aide out of jail.
The Gin & Juice hit-maker has told police in Norfolk, Virginia that the drug package sent to a member of his entourage from Canada was meant for him. The authorities swooped on Snoop’s pal when the suspicious package arrived at the Norfolk Plaza Hotel addressed to him and arrested him for misdemeanor marijuana possession, according to TMZ.com.
Snoop quickly arrived on the scene and
ATLANTA – A judge in Atlanta has dismissed felony drug charges against rapper Lil Wayne.
The Grammy-award winning rapper, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., was arrested in August 2006 at a hotel. Atlanta police said they found unmarked bottles containing hydrocodone and a generic form of Xanax, along with a small amount of marijuana.
On Tuesday, Fulton County Superior Court JudgeMichael Johnson granted
