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Fake dentist who distributed narcotics gets 30 days in jail
L.A. NOWA Buena Park man who pretended to be a dentist and dispensed narcotics to patients has been sentenced to 30 days in jail. Esteban Campos falsely represented himself as a dentist at Steven’s Dental Lab in Buena Park by performing...... -
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.... -
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... -
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: U.S. Congress, Vicodin (drug), Dilaudid (drug), Hydrocodone (drug), Betty Ford
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HELPED OR HOOKED?
Los Angeles TimesFourteen of Doanh Nguyen's patients have died of prescription drug overdoses since 2005, coroner's records show. But he's not to blame for any of them, he said. His practice in Orange County's Little Saigon caters to pain sufferers of all kinds....Tags: Vicodin (drug), Cosmetic Procedures, Chemical Industry, Botox (drug), Tylenol (drug)
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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: Heart Attack, Diabetes, Crime, Law and Justice, General Practitioners, Cancer
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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: Liver Cancer, Ice Hockey, Sports, St. Louis Blues, Cancer
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James Fogle dies at 75; 'Drugstore Cowboy' author, career criminal
James Fogle, a career criminal and writer who blew every chance he had to go straight, including the brief period after his manuscript about a band of outlaw junkies, "Drugstore Cowboy," was made into a well-regarded 1989 movie, died in prison Thursday in...
Tags: Entertainment, Lung Cancer, Mesothelioma, Criminals, Prisons
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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: Nursing Homes, World War II (1939-1945), Suicide, Lung Cancer, Pharmaceuticals
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Steve Lopez talks about how we die (Google+ Hangout)
L.A. NOWTimes columnist Steve Lopez has been writing for the last year about the debate over how we die. Lopez will host a Google+ Hangout at noon Thursday PDT. You can submit questions at Twitter using the hashtag #asklatimes or by...... -
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, Valium (drug), Vicodin (drug), Transportation Accidents, Hydrocodone (drug)
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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: Medical Specialization, Health Insurance Cost, Chemotherapy, Burger King, Art Linkletter
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