| The CNN Wire: Tuesday, Nov. 13
Coalition, Afghan forces arrest suspected insurgent, free 7 Taliban hostages in southern Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces arrested a suspected insurgent Tuesday in the Qalat district of southern Afghanistan's Zabul Province while conducting operations aimed at disrupting foreign fighter facilitator cells, the coalition command said. "Actionable intelligence led coalition forces to compounds in the district where they conducted a search for militant facilitators thought to be hiding in the area," the coalition said in a statement. The search resulted in the detention of an individual suspect of having "connections to foreign fighter facilitation operations as well as other extremist activities." There was no word on whether any casualties resulted, but the coalition said "some damage" occurred to a nearby building during the course of the operation.
Program aims to demonstrate driving dangers to teens
Driver education students at Galileo Magnet High School got a dose of reality Friday when they stood in the school parking lot face to face with a wrecked car in which two people had lost their lives. It was part of a program called "Some Don't Die" that Danville Crime Prevention Specialist Steve Anderson presented to Nancy Rook's class. "Two people lost their lives in this car," Anderson said as the students checked out the crushed vehicle. "It no doubt took a side impact. There's still blood in the driver's seat." He then asked the students how many knew the number of people who lost their lives in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "This country was devastated, and your lives and the lives of your children were changed," Anderson said. Although he said students often do not know the number of people who died on Sept.
9:50 p.m.: Men accused of beating cancer patient to steal her drugs
Police allege a pair of Anderson brothers beat a 60-year-old terminally ill cancer patient with a golf club when they went to her Lapel home to steal pain medication late Thursday. 9:50 p.m.: Men accused of beating cancer patient to steal her drugs By SHAWN McGRATH .
Experts say drug can help addicted teenagers
Depressed teenagers addicted to drugs improved significantly in a Colorado study that combined intense psychotherapy and an antidepressant called fluoxetine, psychiatrists reported Monday. The work is the first to show that an antidepressant can be safe and effective for adolescents using illegal drugs, said Paula Riggs, a psychiatrist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora and the study's lead author. It is groundbreaking, she said, because substance-abusing youths have generally been excluded from clinical trials, for fear their drug use would interact with treatment drugs, or they'd fail to show up when required. About 125 Denver-area adolescents with substance-abuse problems and depression stuck out four months of weekly cognitive behavioral therapy sessions and antidepressant or placebo pills.
A staggering price tag for illegal drinks
The costs of underage drinking are staggering.
A combination of medical care, work loss, pain and suffering associated with problems resulting from alcohol use by youths cost Americans $60.3 billion in 2005, according to the Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center. The Maryland-based center was established by the U.S. Department of Justice to help states and local communities enforce underage drinking laws, prevent underage drinking, and thus eliminate the consequences associated with alcohol use by those banned by law from drinking it because they are under 21.
Nolan Howe, 21, of Beach Haven knows those consequences all too well.
In August 2006 Howe was caught drinking and driving when he collided with another vehicle while driving about 10 mph, he said.
Increased Injury Risk When Energy Drinks Mixed With Alcohol
College students who drink alcohol mixed with so-called "energy" drinks are at dramatically higher risk for injury and other alcohol-related consequences, compared to students who drink alcohol without energy drinks, according to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. The findings were reported at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Washington, D.C.
The researchers found that students who consumed alcohol mixed with energy drinks were twice as likely to be hurt or injured, twice as likely to require medical attention, and twice as likely to ride with an intoxicated driver, as were students who did not consume alcohol mixed with energy drinks. Students who drank alcohol mixed with energy drinks were more than twice as likely to take advantage of someone else sexually, and almost twice as likely to be taken advantage of sexually.
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