Drug Treatment, Addicts, Funding Cuts

Funding cuts to drug treatment centers mean addicts get turned away
Charlotte Observer
The three – Walter B. Jones Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment Center in Greenville, Julian F. Keith Center in Black Mountain and R.J. Blackley Center in ...

Overdoses of 'Molly' Led to Electric Zoo Deaths - NYTimes.com: "The New York City Medical Examiner has confirmed that two young people who died at the Electric Zoo festival on Randalls Island over Labor Day weekend took fatal doses of drugs sold on the street that are known as “molly.” The third day of the festival was canceled at the request of city authorities after the two overdose victims, Jeffrey Russ, 23, of Rochester, and Olivia Rotondo, 20, of Providence, R.I., collapsed with high body temperatures. Their deaths came after a string of similar overdoses since March at dance concerts around the country — in Boston, Seattle, Miami and Washington, D.C. Toxicology results showed Ms. Rotondo died from acute intoxication after taking pure MDMA, the euphoria-producing drug sold on the street in pill form as ecstasy and in powdered form as molly, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office. . . ."

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