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Drug, alcohol abuse study measures the high cost of under-treated addiction
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDRUG AND alcohol abuse sets people on a path toward heart disease, cancer and other chronic illnesses. A study in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment reports that hospital costs for this medical fallout can be substantial -- and could be avoided with...Tags: Science and Technology, Diseases and Illnesses, Medicaid, Insurance, Drug Trafficking
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'Gateway' to Washington
Today, Sullum and Stimson discuss past drug use by successful political leaders. Previously, they compared drug legalization and decriminalization and debated the federal government's authority to raid local marijuana dispensaries. Later in the week,...Tags: Human Rights, Recreational Substance Use, Al Gore, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics
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Hans Fallada is resurrected in the U.S.
The early years, before he was old enough to understand the extent of the destruction unfurling around him -- these are the ones Ulrich Ditzen likes to remember. He was just a kid at the time, no more than 4 or 5, and his family lived in a farmhouse in...Tags: Primo Levi, Radio Industry, Berlin (Germany), Australia (movie), Family
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Grateful to see addict in his rearview mirror
Special to The Times'Tis the season when we invariably find ourselves reflecting upon the closing year and at some point conducting a personal audit. This year-end self-evaluation generally includes recalling earlier resolutions resolutely made and quickly forgotten, a...Tags: New Year's Day, Family, Drugs and Medicines, Behavioral Conditions, Health
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Prescription drugs left around house tempt kids
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterPrescriptions for painkillers -- left over from surgeries, orthopedic injuries or dental work -- frequently languish, unfinished, in family medicine chests. Supplies of anti-anxiety medications, including the benzodiazepines known by their commercial...Tags: U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy, Pain, Health and Safety at School, Teen-agers, Adults
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What kind of prison relief does Prop. 5 promise?
Today's question: California's prisons and jails are chronically overcrowded; how much of that is related to drug offenses? How much prison and jail overcrowding, if any, would be relieved by Proposition 5? Previously, Kreit and Cooley debated whether...Tags: State Budgets, Drug Trafficking, Elections, Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice
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Prop. 5: 'Get out of jail free' for criminals?
Today's question: Would Proposition 5 make it too easy to escape punishment in cases where the offenses were only vaguely connected to drugs? Steve Cooley and Alex Kreit debate Proposition 5.
A public safety disaster Point: Steve Cooley
Put simply,...Tags: Entertainment, Personal Data Collection, Vehicles, Drug Trafficking, Punishment
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Gone with the weed
It took decades for the Los Angeles Times to come to its current position on marijuana, supporting its medical use and advocating lenient enforcement and penalties for small-scale possession. Barring a 1914 editorial suggesting the legalization of opium...Tags: Mexico, John F. Kennedy, Recreational Substance Use, Drug Trafficking, Wars and Interventions
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ADDICTION
ADDICTION Enrique, now 15, gathers his clothing and goes to his maternal grandmother. "Can I stay here?" he asks. This had been his first home, the small stucco house where he and Lourdes lived until Lourdes stepped off the front porch and left. His...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Photography, Crimes, Behavioral Conditions, Arts and Culture
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Woman, Boyfriend Convicted in Slaying of Vegas Casino Heir
Times Staff WriterA trucking contractor who came to Las Vegas to make his fortune and a young Southern California woman who never left after a gambling vacation were convicted Friday of murdering casino heir Lonnie "Ted" Binion, capping a trial that has riveted the city...Tags: Family, Family Vacations, Murder, Casino and Gambling Industry, Lotteries
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Doctor who detoxed stars cited
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe state medical board has accused Dr. David A. Kipper, a Beverly Hills physician with a celebrity clientele, of overprescribing habit-forming drugs and running an illegal detoxification program for addicts. Kipper, an internist with no training in...Tags: Celebrities, Behavioral Conditions, Music Industry, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Crime, Law and Justice
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Hotel detox: For affluent addicts
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBy almost any measure, the heroin addiction treatment a prominent rock star underwent earlier this year was unorthodox. For one thing, it took place not at a licensed clinic but at the Peninsula Hotel, the five-star center of Hollywood deal-making...Tags: Medical Services, Emergency Planning, Health and Medical Professionals, Drug Trafficking, Kurt Cobain
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