According to a couple research studies, there are signs pointing to benzodiazepines being more dangerous than just being addictive. A connection has been found between taking benzos over a long-term period and a stressing of the immune system. Xanax has been found to cause more stress than others, too, which makes ... Read More
Serena Williams Refuses Drug Test Citing Unfair Targeting By Regulators
While it is certainly laudable to ensure the purity of a sport by testing its players for unfair advantages like steroids and hormones, from the players’ perspective each test is a sacrifice of their privacy. So when Serena Williams, seven-time Wimbledon champion and 23-time Grand Slam winner, refused to submit to a ... Read More
XXXTentacion Killed, Suspect Has Numerous Parole, Gun and Drug Offenses
Dedrick Williams is currently a person of interest in the shooting death of XXXTentacion, and apparently is loaded up to the teeth with prior investigations and convictions for gun and drug cases, including dealing drugs. XXXTentacion was a rapper with a loyal fanbase and an emotionally vulnerable and open rap style ... Read More
Florida Home Raided For Meth After Month of Sheriff’s Planning
Nearly every news story about a drug dealer being taken off the streets is a good story in our books, and as far as drug addiction and Florida are concerned, we could certainly use fewer dealers in the state. St. Johns County Sheriff's deputies arrested six people after the neighbors complained that they thought there ... Read More
Police End Year-long Drug Investigation With Six Arrests, Four Floridians On Same Day
The problem of meth addiction in Florida may have gotten a little easier in the past few weeks. Multiple police agencies capped off a drug investigation lasting over a year with a series of arrests in South Florida and California June 22. Collier County Sheriff's Office and other national police agencies arrested six ... Read More
Florida Woman Brings Drugs to Jury Duty, Arrested For Bringing Drugs to Jury Duty
Florida may be known for some of the most incredulous crimes its citizens perform, but this one really takes the prize. Kristine Mittler received a summons to attend jury duty at the West Pasco Judicial Center, and like a good public citizen, she obeyed and went. Unfortunately, once she entered the metal detectors in ... Read More
Drug Dealer, Gun Runner Florida Husband and Wife Both Behind Bars
Florida might be notorious for its connection to drug and gun trafficking, but justice took the state a step away from that connection June 15. Susan Nell Anderson, 67, was one of the top suspects in a federal drug case where the dealers would exchange guns as payment to the drug makers. Police had already captured ... Read More
FBI Raids And Indictments At Phony Rehab Clinic Empire
Federal prosecutors have brought down the hammer on eight people who were part of a South Florida fake sober home and drug treatment center business empire, a cover for massive insurance fraud. The centers, which would treat patients going through opioid rehab and other such therapies, used the services in order to ... Read More