Category Archives: Drug Offenses
New Study Supports Ketamine Therapy As A Treatment For Cocaine Use Disorder
If you are judging by the number of overdose deaths, fentanyl is the most dangerous drug out there. In fact, opioids have dominated the headlines about addiction, overdose, and drug-related crime in the United States for more than a decade. Many people who have suffered from opioid use disorder began their relationship with opioids… Read More »
Drug Enforcement Administration Classifies Delta-8 As A Controlled Substance
A few years ago, the green iguana was the most noteworthy ubiquitous green thing in the Sunshine State, but by now the iguanas have become such an ordinary part of the landscape that it is no more surprising to one than it is to see an American alligator or an ageless octogenarian. Like so… Read More »
Police Find Three Pounds Of Methamphetamine In Sarasota County Drug Bust
Drug busts happen for a reason. The police do not randomly burst into people’s houses in search of illegal drugs. The law does not allow them to do this. Pursuant to the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, law enforcement cannot search private property without a warrant. Therefore, before they have the right… Read More »
The CDC’s New Guidelines On Opioid Prescribing Do Not Directly Address Illicit Drugs But Could Represent A New Chapter In The Opioid Epidemic
In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued guidelines regarding the prescribing of opioid painkillers. The 2016 guidelines encouraged doctors only to prescribe short courses of the drugs and to taper doses or discontinue the prescription after several weeks in almost all cases. This was a stark contrast with the 1990s… Read More »
Over-The-Counter Antihistamines And The Opioid Epidemic
This month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a report detailing a disturbing recent trend in opioid overdoses. It reported that approximately 15 percent of the patients whose deaths were attributed to opioid overdose in 2019 and 2020 also tested positive for over-the-counter antihistamines. Many of these overdoses were accidental, as… Read More »
It Is Illegal To Drive Under The Influence Of Cannabis, But How Do You Prove It?
State laws about cannabis interact with each other in ways that make it possible to face charges for cannabis crimes even when your mere possession of the marijuana or edibles is not a violation of the law. For example, you can get charges for DUI if you drive under the influence of cannabis, even… Read More »
When Does A Dietary Supplement Become An Illegal Drug?
Most of the items you find at gas station convenience stores where you stop in the middle of the night on road trips are the same as products you would find at a supermarket in the daytime, such as sunflower seeds, candy bars, potato chips, soda, and bottled coffee drinks. The pills in the… Read More »
Ketamine Chic And Other Bogus Reasons To Send In The Drug-Sniffing Dogs
Imagine if, during a trial in a drug possession case, a police officer who had arrested the defendant during the incident that led to the charges told the jury that he or she conducted the traffic stop because of a broken taillight or expired tags but then decided to search the vehicle for drugs… Read More »
The Field Test Said That The Drug Mixture In Your Car Contained What?
The field tests that police use at traffic stops are notoriously subjective and unreliable. A 20-year-old gymnast can successfully walk an imaginary tight rope whether she is sober or drunk, but a 60-year-old who takes blood pressure medication would have trouble with that task, even if she hasn’t consumed a drop of alcohol in… Read More »
Are You Eligible For Drug Court In Palm Beach County?
Evidence that addiction is not something you can punish out of existence is everywhere in South Florida. In 2019, Colton Wooten, who moved to Florida several years earlier to enter an addiction facility, described his experiences with the Florida Shuffle, where people just out of inpatient rehab soon find their way to relapses and… Read More »
