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News from Around the State and Nation

Booking And Cooking: Meth Cooks Using Hotel Rooms As Their Labs - (National) Methamphetamine "cooks" are using coffee makers and microwaves in hotel rooms of national hotel chains to heat the highly toxic chemical ingredients to make the drug. abcnews.com 2-21-07

STRAWBERRY METHAMPHETAMINE- (National) A new kind of methamphetamine that has a strawberry flavor and bright pink coloring was seized for the first time in Carson City, Nevada during a search of an apartment on January 27, 2007. Flavored methamphetamine is the newest metamorphosis of the dangerous street drug Stawberry Meth 2-2-07

Heritage doing drug testing – (Newnan, GA) The Heritage School has added a policy that school leaders hope will make it easier for students to say no to drugs. Random drug testing is now part of the contract between parents and the local college preparatory private school. Periodically, student names are pulled using a lottery system. The students selected have a bit of hair snipped, and the hair is tested. Times-herald.com 4-16-07

Drunken Babysitter Sentenced For Suffocating Infant - (Atlanta) A woman who suffocated an infant she was babysitting under her body when she collapsed in a drunken stupor has been sentenced. Wsbtv.com 4-16-07

Employers grapple with medical marijuana use – Debbie Gilbert reports that the good news: Georgia has received a $21 million federal grant to enhance mental health services for children and teens. The not-so-good news: It will be at least three years before the Northeast Georgia region gets any of that money. Usatoday.com 4-16-07