News
76 percent of UCSB students have consumed alcohol within the past 30 days, and 20 percent of students have taken a prescription drug not prescribed to them, according to the National College Health Assessment 2011 data. While substance abuse issues face college students nationwide, many health professionals are claiming UCSB [...]
News / Police Blotter
Last week, Santa Barbra police officials made three different arrests for large-scale drug charges, with one arrest involving a Santa Barbara City College student found to be in possession of one pound of MDMA — a drug chemically consistent with ecstasy that is also known as “Molly”. 19-year-old Isla Vista [...]
Letters to the Editor / Opinion
Only people ignorant of the true history of addictive drug use blame the drugs for the tragedies connected to drug addiction. Checking newspaper archives from 1880 to 1909 reveals the fact that no one was robbing, whoring and murdering to get drugs when addicts could buy all of the heroin, [...]
News
Santa Barbara’s chapter of the national organization A New PATH — Parents for Addiction Treatment and Healing — will participate in the organization’s new countrywide campaign to help end the nation’s “War on Drugs” starting this Mother’s Day.
Opinion
Albert Einstein, smart guy that he was, once wrote, “I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge.