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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: Vicodin (drug), Physical Therapists, General Practitioners, Pharmaceuticals, Health Treatments
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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), General Practitioners, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Food and Drug Administration, Pain
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Jimmy Patsos does it his way, and Loyola keeps winning
Jimmy Patsos got what he wanted after all. "Three games in March," he said Sunday after Loyola beat Manhattan, 63-61, at Reitz Arena. Three games to win the upcoming Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championships and get the automatic bid to the...
Tags: Niagara Purple Eagles, Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Martin Luther King Jr., University of California, Los Angeles
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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: Southeastern Conference, Ole Miss Rebels, Dave Barry, College Football, NFL Draft
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Interview: Kill Hannah's Christmas presence
Kill Hannah has spent much of its career coming to its fans around the country and in Europe, but once a year during the holiday season the Chicago alt-rock band has its fans come to it for “A New Heart For Christmas.” And considering the...
Tags: International Travel, Religious Festivals, House of Blues Chicago, Barack Obama, Holidays
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When death is certain, but dignity is not
Last time I wrote about my dad, he'd taken a fall in his bedroom, couldn't get up, but didn't want yet another ride in an ambulance. So my mother got down on the floor with him, pulled up a blanket and they went to sleep.
This time they went down...Tags: Nursing, Breast Cancer, General Practitioners, Personal Service, Health Treatments
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Video/Q&A: 'Argo' star/director Ben Affleck
Years after Ben Affleck directed critical and commercial successes “Gone Baby Gone” and “The Town,” many stories still peg the director/actor’s latest effort “Argo” as a comeback. “That narrative has been...
Tags: Drama (genre), Celebrities, Personal Service, GQ, Matt Damon
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A barbaric death, and a plea for a change in the law
"My husband has repeatedly asked me to give him a gun, he has asked me to shoot him, and he repeatedly begs to die." This came to me Wednesday afternoon in an email from a Northern California woman. "All I can do is give him the prescribed doses of...
Tags: Cancer, Crime, Law and Justice, General Practitioners, Heart Attack, Diabetes
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Muncie man arrested in connection with Ball State thefts
A Muncie man faces several charges related to break-ins at Ball State University. Police arrested Mark A. Cassady, 28, on charges including burglary, receiving stolen property, possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana. Campus...
Tags: Theft
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Luc Robitaille honors mother's Stanley Cup request
NORBERTVILLE, Canada — Madeleine Robitaille could have requested anything from her Hockey Hall of Fame son Luc and he would have moved mountains to give it to her, but that isn't her way. She and her husband, Claude, worked hard for all they had...
Tags: Detroit Red Wings, Stanley Cup Playoffs, Liver Cancer, St. Louis Blues, Auction Service
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Scheitrum is back in the game with the IronPigs
Kristin Scheitrum is constantly on the go at Coca-Cola Park … flinging T-shirts into the crowd, sorting the giveaways, working the between-inning events, taking care of this, rushing to do that.
As a marketing intern, the former Emmaus High...Tags: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Viral Diseases and Infections, Coca-Cola Co., Sports, Lafayette College
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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), Lung Cancer, World War II (1939-1945), General Practitioners, Chemical Industry
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