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Iran wages its own war against drugs
World NowHIRMAND, Iran -- The featured speaker -- an 11-year-old girl -- waited hours for the helicopter to land near the watch tower and high concrete walls in this remote region not far from the Afghanistan border. Close by, a military band played marching music... -
Legal drugs, deadly outcomes
Terry Smith collapsed face-down in a pool of his own vomit. Lynn Blunt snored loudly as her lungs slowly filled with fluid. Summer Ann Burdette was midway through a pear when she stopped breathing. Larry Carmichael knocked over a lamp as he fell...
Tags: Back Pain, Law Enforcement, Medical Research, Gil Kerlikowske, General Practitioners
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Review: 'Desert America' by Ruben Martinez
-------------------- Desert America Boom and Bust in the New "New West" Rubén Martínez Metropolitan Books: 337 pp., $28 -------------------- In his new book "Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New 'New West,'" Los Angeles writer Rubén Martínez...
Tags: John Wayne, Services and Shopping, Authors, Rentals, Epidemics and Plagues
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A former L.A. cop calls for legalizing drugs
Stephen Downing speaks fondly of his 20 years with the Los Angeles Police Department, saying he misses the camaraderie and the integrity of the people he worked with in a career that took him from street cop to deputy chief. Along the way, as commander of...Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Law Enforcement, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Prisons
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Cross-country tour to point out the failure of the war on drugs
SAN DIEGO — If there is a more profound and costly failure than the war on drugs, it hasn't come to my attention. In Mexico, an estimated 50,000 to 70,000 people have been killed or have disappeared since 2006, as drug cartels wage bloody battles...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Sociology, Arts and Culture, War Crimes, Substance Abuse
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One drug connection that everyone ignores
Illegal drugs by the tons are smuggled into California each year by sea, by land and by air. Cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine and heroin are either produced in or pass through Mexico, where 50,000 people have been killed in the last six years in an...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Behavioral Conditions, Mexico, Los Angeles International Airport, Prescription Drugs
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Dr. James West dies at 98; a founder of Betty Ford Center
Dr. James W. West stood on the cutting edge of medicine in the middle of the 20th century and recognized "it sounded bizarre to remove an organ from a dead person and expect it to work." He was part of a team of surgeons who helped change that perception...
Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Medical Specialization, University of Chicago, Obituaries, Kidney Disease
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‘Dark Knight Rises’: Tom Hardy, a Brando for Blu-ray era?
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comBritish actor Tom Hardy has been able to dream bigger since he delivered a memorably roguish performance in ”Inception” — but that ...... -
Drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in U.S., data show
Los Angeles TimesPropelled by an increase in prescription narcotic overdoses, drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in the United States, a Times analysis of government data has found. Drugs exceeded motor vehicle accidents as a cause of death in 2009, killing...Tags: National Government, Back Pain, Disasters and Accidents, Symptoms, Zoloft (drug)
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PASSINGS: Howard Tate
Howard Tate, 72, a soul singer who got a second chance at a career three decades after being derailed by disputes with industry executives, personal tragedy and drug addiction, died Dec. 2 in Burlington, N.J., said a spokesman for the Burlington County...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Entertainment, Soul (genre)
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Etta James dies at 73; acclaimed blues and R&B singer
Etta James, the earthy blues and R&B singer whose anguished vocals convinced generations of listeners that she would rather go blind than see her love leave, then communicated her joy upon finding that love at last, died Friday. She was 73.
She died at...Tags: Customs and Tradition, Prostitution, Religion and Belief, B.B. King, Entertainment
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Almost Acoustic Christmas is a gauge of rock's past, future
Pop & HissJane's Addiction is a parody of itself, while Black Keys and Mumford & Sons wipe out pretenses; Florence + the Machine and Foster the People are embraced. Guys with guitars roamed freely Sunday night at the Gibson Amphitheatre, where bands......
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