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A shortsighted 'cure' for prescription meds' abuse
An Orange County pain specialist already in the spotlight over deaths from prescription medications has racked up another patient overdose death. The coroner has ruled that Wayne Oviatt died in January of a mix of prescription drugs, including morphine,...
Tags: Physical Therapy, General Practitioners, Hydrocodone (drug), Vicodin (drug), Physical Therapists
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Another patient of O.C. doctor dies of prescription drug overdose
An Orange County doctor featured in a Times investigative report because 16 of his patients fatally overdosed on drugs he prescribed has had another patient death, according to recently released coroner's records. Wayne Oviatt, a patient of Dr. Van Vu...
Tags: Darrell Steinberg, Kamala D. Harris, Prescription Drugs, Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals
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Don't punish people who really need painkillers
It's not enough that medical insurance companies want to dictate how much and what kind of treatment our illnesses deserve. Now legislators and law enforcement agencies are butting in, trying to curtail the use of high-powered painkillers because too...
Tags: Vicodin (drug), Pain, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Drugs and Medicines, General Practitioners
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Lil Wayne seizure puts spotlight on rappers' use of 'sizzurp'
The powerful narcotic popped up on the cultural grid around the turn of the millennium. A Texas producer-remixer named DJ Screw paid homage to its woozy, heavy-lidded high by dramatically slowing down beats and vocals to replicate the drug's sleepwalker...
Tags: T.I., Hospitals and Clinics, Entertainment, Coughing, Interior Policy
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Doctor explains sizzurp's powerful high -- and deadly side effects
Sizzurp, purple drank, lean -- that cough-syrup-laced concoction of many names -- has been gaining popularity in hip hop culture and notoriety as more celebrities fall prey to its effects. Rapper Lil Wayne was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai last week,...
Tags: Coughing, Lil Wayne, Antihistamines, Promethazine (drug), Heroin
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Mike Tyson says the 'Undisputed Truth' is he's changed
LAS VEGAS — Spend a sunny afternoon at home with Mike Tyson and if the erstwhile Baddest Man on the Planet is in an expansive mood, he may indulge his cherished pastime: letting loose the performing pigeons he raises in his backyard to flap and...
Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Entertainment, Muhammad Ali, Cannibalism, Services and Shopping
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Fun-wise, national signing day is a signature event
What fun, this national signing day, colleges' version of the NFL draft. Story I'm following most closely is of the Florida mom who reportedly ran off with her kid's signing papers so he wouldn't leave home. As Dave Barry used to say, I'm not making...
Tags: Vanderbilt Commodores, Ole Miss Rebels, Alabama Crimson Tide, NFL Draft, Nick Saban
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Officer allegedly took cash, drugs in bribery case, the FBI says
L.A. NOWA San Luis Obispo police detective was arrested on suspicion of taking drugs and cash in a bribery scheme, federal authorities said Tuesday.... -
The DEA's marijuana mistake
For a muscular agency that combats vicious drug criminals, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration acts like a terrified and obstinate toddler when it comes to basic science. For years, the DEA and the National Institute for Drug Abuse have made it all...
Tags: Barack Obama, Science and Technology, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Placebo
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A nursing supervisor at Soledad prison allegedly padded hours
PolitiCalA state auditor's report sheds additional light on an unfolding scandal at a California prison in Soledad. The report, an annual compilation of state employee misconduct, notes that a nursing supervisor at the California Training Facility falsely... -
Notorious B.I.G. autopsy: No drugs, alcohol in rapper's system
L.A. NOWThe night rapper Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down in one of L.A.'s most brazen unsolved homicides he had no drugs or alcohol in his system, according to a Los Angeles County Coroner report unsealed Friday.... -
Chorus of voices grows stronger for 'death with dignity'
The bullet that Larry Robert Broman used to kill himself went clean through his head and into the wall. No one had expected him to do it. Not his ex-wife, who had remained close to him. And not their two grown daughters. It happened early on the...
Tags: Methadone (drug), Suicide, Chemical Industry, World War II (1939-1945), Nursing Homes
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