Police in Southern California have reported at least two cases of children testing positive for methamphetamine after ingesting the Halloween treats they worked so hard to collect. In the world's worst double whammy, the police had to confiscate a child's entire candy stash for meth testing. Which is what I will …
Donna J. Nelson is a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Oklahoma with a CV that's over 31-pages long. One of the most recent entries? Science advisor to AMC's hit show about a chemistry teacher gone nutso, Breaking Bad.
Sign of the times: Now you must be 18 years or older to buy nail polish remover.
People are a little crazy about Diet Coke, right? Like more crazy about it than anyone should ever be about a beverage that they don't have to go to rehab for? Granted I've never been a big soda drinker so I do not speak as a representative of the Diet Coke community. I speak as someone who can't figure out why it's…
The three men who came forward in the past month alleging that former Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash had sex with them when they were minors have since been on the receiving end of a lot of negative attention. With lawsuits being filed and settlement money on the table, they've been called liars, gold-diggers, and much…
As if meth wasn't heinous enough by itself, a new study is showing that the drug has lasting effects on children whose mothers use it during pregnancy. While this certainly doesn't come as a surprise—given how much meth messes up adult brains—it's nevertheless disturbing. Earlier research found that meth babies, like…
A woman's attempt to turn her local Wal-Mart into a makeshift meth lab ran afoul of the law after spending six hours unsuccessfully trying to concoct crystal meth in the store. This is the best store related illicit multitasking since Horne's Department Store recruited perfume counter employees for prostitution work…
Elizabeth Gilbert's onetime love-nest is apparently turning into a den of iniquity: Bali has seen a sharp increase in meth-smuggling arrests, including that of a woman who was hiding the drug in her intestines. Locals apparently call the drug shabu-shabu, which raises the possibility that this is all a…
In a sort of conflation of reality television concepts, last night's episode of Intervention may have provided a peek into what the future could hold for some of those career kiddie pageant contestants we see on Toddlers & Tiaras. Tiffany began competing in pageants when she was 9 months old, and continued to do so…
A midwestern mother received a vacuum cleaner for Christmas, along with a surprise gift of $280K worth of drugs someone had stashed inside. First Clay Matthews's confusing roided-up-Fabio-joins-a-crappy-metal-band hairdo, and now this? Strange things are afoot in Green Bay.
On last night's episode, Rob-a 35-year-old meth-addicted alcoholic-never gave up his dream of becoming a rock star, even though he never really did anything to achieve it and, according to his family, he kinda sucks at music.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has eliminated all state funding for domestic violence shelters. This has come as a shock for many shelters; while they had expected a budget cut of 20%, they had no idea it would be so drastic.
Hey, remember when everyone was calling Wasilla "Alaska's Meth Capital"? Well it sounds like one of its most famous inhabitants, Levi Johnston's mother, Sherry, has been tangled up in that Meth-y web.
Pussycat Doll takes shilling to high extreme, sings song for Caress body wash. • An Indian man beheaded a woman he believed was a witch. • 18-year-old girl genius makes the natural transition into academia. • "Whether or not we're in a recession, it doesn't matter. That day is the most important day of your life and a…
