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Thursday's TV Highlights: 'Elementary' on CBS
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 12 - 18, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Tonight Show...
Tags: Jim Parsons, Entertainment, Simon Helberg, Johnny Galecki, Mindy Kaling
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FDA allows sales of generic Opana painkiller to continue
Federal regulators said Friday that they would continue to allow sales of generic Opana, a narcotic painkiller similar to OxyContin, even though the pills are prone to abuse. Like OxyContin, Opana is an extended-release narcotic designed to offer pain...Tags: OxyContin (drug), New Products, Drugs and Medicines, Prescription Drugs, Food and Drug Administration
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Generic version of narcotic Opana still for sale despite concerns
Federal regulators said Friday they would continue to allow sales of generic Opana, a narcotic painkiller similar to OxyContin, even though the pills are prone to abuse. Like OxyContin, Opana is an extended-release narcotic designed to offer pain...Tags: OxyContin (drug), Prescription Drugs, Drugs and Medicines, Food and Drug Administration
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Jackson witness: Answer to health was 'Get him a bucket of chicken'
Michael Jackson’s makeup artist testified Friday that although the singer once asked her if she had painkillers, she never broached the subject of his addiction with him. Karen Faye said that during Jackson’s 2005 molestation trial in...
Tags: AEG, Michael Jackson, Prosecution, Witnesses, Conrad Murray
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Makeup artist describes a frail, ailing Jackson
Michael Jackson's diminishing figure — so thin that a costume designer claimed he could see the pop star's heartbeat through his skin — failed to even concern his own manager, according to testimony given Friday. "Get him a bucket of...Tags: Michael Jackson Comeback Tour (2009), Entertainment, Conrad Murray, Propofol (drug), Music
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Pot in a pill: All the pain relief without the smoke
Unless there is some recognized analgesic effect of rolling a joint, lighting it up and deeply inhaling the by-products of marijuana combustion, then it stands to reason that you could distill the psychoactive ingredient of marijuana,...
Tags: Columbia University, Placebo, Lifestyle and Leisure, Recreational Substance Use, Over-the-Counter Medicines
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Abuse-resistant OxyContin will be only version available: FDA
Three years after it approved a version of the opioid analgesic OxyContin designed to discourage the painkiller's abuse, the Food and Drug Administration has effectively barred the original form of the drug from ever reaching the legal U.S. market. The...
Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Chemical Industry, OxyContin (drug), Science and Technology, Pharmaceuticals
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Anxiety? Existential crisis? David Lynch film? Take a Tylenol
Are you suffering from an existential crisis? Take two Tylenol and call me in the morning. New research suggests that acetaminophen, the main ingredient in Tylenol, may be able to alleviate the pain of an existential crisis in the same way it alleviates...
Tags: Psychology, Acetaminophen (drug), Science and Technology, University of Kentucky, Tylenol (drug)
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Pregnant women held hostage during pharmacy robbery
A man held two pregnant pharmacy workers at gunpoint Wednesday after demanding powerful prescription painkillers in a note. Karmen Sefyan, owner of Arianna Medical Pharmacy in Glendale, and a co-worker were alone just after noon inside the drugstore...Tags: Vicodin (drug), Theft, Prescription Drugs
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Drug overdose prevention could be right at our fingertips
What do you think is the leading cause of accidental death in California? If you said car accidents, you were wrong. In 2009, the most recent year for which statistics are available, 3,200 people in the state died in automobile crashes, while 3,561...
Tags: OxyContin (drug), Hospitals and Clinics, Disasters and Accidents, Pharmaceuticals, Hydrocodone (drug)
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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, Pharmaceuticals, Hydrocodone (drug), Morphine (drug)
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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, Hydrocodone (drug), Drugs and Medicines, Substance Abuse
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