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Cops: Lingerie Model Runs Drug Gang

Group uses other models as drug runners

(Newser) - Police worldwide are on the lookout for Angie Sanselmente Valencia, a former lingerie model who authorities believe runs a global drug trafficking ring. Valencia is said to use other models as "mules" because beautiful women can make it through airport security more effectively. Her group was exposed when a...

US Agents to Embed With Mexican Drug Police

Obama administration willing to work more closely with Mexico

(Newser) - The US has hatched a plan to embed American intelligence agents in Mexican police units for the first time, in an effort to hunt down drug cartel leaders. In the past, the US has hesitated to share intelligence with Mexican police, viewing them as largely corrupt and incompetent. To avoid...

After 20 Years, Scientists Crack HIV Puzzle

Enzyme integrase made visible for first time

(Newser) - After 40,000 failed trials and "painstakingly slow progress," scientists have solved a puzzle that stumped AIDS researchers for more than 20 years—and their findings could help develop more effective HIV drugs. The researchers at Harvard and Imperial College London grew a crystal that for the first...

Redmond O'Neal Busted Again
 Redmond O'Neal Busted Again 

Redmond O'Neal Busted Again

2nd drug-related probation violation for Fawcett son

(Newser) - Redmond O'Neal has been busted again on drug charges. The son of Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal was taken into custody on Dec. 29 on a felony drug charge—the second violation of his probation for a 2008 drug arrest. O'Neal was ordered to go to an in-custody drug-treatment center...

Astronauts Are Sky-High&mdash;Figuratively
 Astronauts Are 
 Sky-High—Figuratively 
just say no

Astronauts Are Sky-High—Figuratively

Space explorers have access to some high-test drugs, man

(Newser) - Space is full of unique challenges, and astronauts use contemporary pharmacology to meet them. Discovery News compiles a list of the drugs our ambassadors to space could be on right now:
  • Modafinil. A strong stimulant taken by astronauts when the mission calls for unnaturally long periods of wakefulness.
  • Scopolamine. Crew
...

Rachel Uchitel Had 'Crazy Ambien Sex' With Tiger
 Rachel Uchitel Had 
 'Crazy Ambien Sex' With Tiger 
PLUS: ASHLEY DUPRE!

Rachel Uchitel Had 'Crazy Ambien Sex' With Tiger

Plus, Ashley Dupre, of all people, weighs in on Woods scandal

(Newser) - The Tiger Woods news just keeps on getting more disturbing: The latest revelation involves the drugs he allegedly did with Rachel Uchitel before they slept together. Uchitel, aka alleged mistress No. 1, bragged to friends about her “crazy Ambien sex” with Tiger, sources tell Radar . Why the insomnia drug?...

Survivor: Days of Fasting Before Sweat Lodge Disaster

Self-help guru James Arthur Ray ignored pleas to help those collapsing

(Newser) - Participants in the fatal Oct. 8 sweat-lodge ceremony had already been through five days of fasting and sleep deprivation, a survivor says—and the self-help guru leading the proceedings saw their gasping, vomiting and fainting as signs of weakness and urged them to push on through it. No charges have...

Obama Pot Policy a Victory for States' Rights
Obama Pot Policy a Victory for States' Rights
OPINION

Obama Pot Policy a Victory for States' Rights

Administration takes long-overdue steps to end Bush-era excesses

(Newser) - The Obama administration’s decision to respect state laws on medical marijuana is good policy—and not just because it demonstrates compassion toward cancer and AIDS patients, writes Glenn Greenwald. Despite his critics’ charges of “socialism” and “fascism,” President Obama is showing that his administration, unlike the...

Feds Will Back Off Medical Pot Operations

No more crackdowns on outlets that comply with state law

(Newser) - The Obama administration will stop cracking down on medical marijuana centers operating legally under state law, according to a new policy expected to be released today. The move is a significant departure from the Bush administration, which continued to bust such operations for breaking federal law. Under the new strategy,...

Judge Bans Talk of Anna Nicole's Lesbian Tryst
Judge Bans Talk of Anna Nicole's Lesbian Tryst
HOWARD K STERN HEARING

Judge Bans Talk of Anna Nicole's Lesbian Tryst

Alleged affair with shrink off limits, but bodyguard spills on near-death

(Newser) - Anyone hoping for steamy testimony of Anna Nicole Smith’s alleged lesbian affair with her shrink will be disappointed: The judge in Howard K. Stern’s hearing squelched that topic yesterday, saying, “I’m not going to turn this into some circus sideshow,” the New York Daily News ...

Stern Gave Smith Valium Shots: Guard
 Stern Gave Smith 
 Valium Shots: Guard 
HOWARD K STERN HEARING

Stern Gave Smith Valium Shots: Guard

Lawyer, shrink accused of drugging Anna Nicole

(Newser) - Howard K. Stern injected Anna Nicole Smith with Valium “four or five” times in the months between her son’s death and her own, her bodyguard testified yesterday. “She couldn’t swallow,” he said. “Anna and Howard felt if they put it in the blood system...

Anna Nicole Bottle-Fed in Last Days
 Anna Nicole 
 Bottle-Fed 
 in Last Days 
HOWARD K STERN HEARING

Anna Nicole Bottle-Fed in Last Days

Howard K. Stern's hearing offers a look into the drugged final days of Smith

(Newser) - Anna Nicole Smith’s last days are getting the inevitable rehash thanks to the Howard K Stern hearing, and the details are about as disturbing as you might guess. The Playboy Playmate was so drugged she had to be fed Pedialyte with a baby bottle, and her final hours were...

I Know Lilo's Drug Dealer: Dad
 I Know Lilo's Drug Dealer: Dad 
SILENCE IS GOLDEN

I Know Lilo's Drug Dealer: Dad

Lohan's always-talking dad Michael is still, not surprisingly, running his piehole

(Newser) - For all those wanting to know exactly which drugs LiLo is on, Michael Lohan might have the answer. In yet another TMI interview with Radar, the celebu-dad says he definitely knows who her drug dealer is: “This guy follows Lindsay all over the place,” he says, adding, “...

Nolte's Son Busted in DUI
 Nolte's Son Busted in DUI 

Nolte's Son Busted in DUI

Brawley nabbed after California accident

(Newser) - Like father, like son. Nick Nolte's son Brawley has been busted in Santa Monica on suspicion of driving under the influence and possession of a controlled substance, according to cops. The 23-year-old sometimes-actor, who played Mel Gibson's son in Ransom, was nabbed after an accident on the Pacific Highway and...

MTV Will Show DJ AM's Drug-Intervention Show

Gone Too Far features Goldstein as mentor to drug addicts

(Newser) - MTV intends to air a drug-intervention reality show starring the late Adam Goldstein, better known as DJ AM. In Gone Too Far, Goldstein plays sober mentor to addicts. Given Goldstein’s recent death from a drug overdose, MTV was concerned the show could be seen as hypocritical or exploitative, but...

Ecstasy, Heroin Linked to German Therapy Deaths

Doc aimed to 'expand consciousness'

(Newser) - Ecstasy and heroin were among the substances supplied by a Berlin therapist who said he aimed to "expand consciousness" during a session that killed two patients, German papers are reporting. Another patient remains in a coma. All 12 participants were rushed to a hospital after they fell ill during...

Bobby Brown 'Spit on Me,' Houston Tells Oprah

Singer enjoyed mixing pot, cocaine, she confides in interview

(Newser) - Emotional abuse and drug addiction marked Whitney Houston’s marriage to Bobby Brown, the singer says. “He spit on me,” Houston recalled in the first part of a tell-all interview with Oprah, broadcast today. She described their intense drug habits: Brown a full-blown, “mean” alcoholic, and Houston...

Georgia Man Innocent in Trailer Slayings: Kid Brother

Cites drug dispute; 'my bro has a conscience'

(Newser) - The brother of a Georgia man charged with slaying his father and seven others in a mobile home insists that 22-year-old Guy Heinze Jr would never harm his family, and instead speculates that a drug dispute could have prompted the killings. "I know my brother didn't do this. My...

DJ AM Spent Last Day on Crack, Pills

Adam Goldstein's apartment littered with drugs; he promised to start rehab

(Newser) - DJ AM lit up a crack pipe in front of his recovery sponsor the day before his death, the New York Post reports in an ongoing effort to piece together his final moments. Friends told investigators Adam Goldstein’s manager and sponsor flew from the West Coast to NYC Thursday...

Jilted by JFK, Monroe Spiraled to Her Death: Book

Even pal, lover Frank Sinatra threw her out for taking pills

(Newser) - In a new tell-all, J. Randy Taraborrelli paints a picture of Marilyn Monroe’s drug-fueled final months, her fixation with John F. Kennedy, and the shock friends like Frank Sinatra felt at her downward spiral, the Daily Mail reports. Four months before her death, the screenwriter for her last film...

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