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Our View: Teen prescription drug abuse hits home
Most of us have seen the commercials warning parents and other adult family members to safeguard their prescription medications from teenagers. Those warnings hit home this week when eight Imperial County teens in two cities and two separate cases...Tags: Vicodin (drug), Adderall (drug), Behavioral Conditions, Drug Use, Recreational Substance Use
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OD teens to be home soon
Staff WriterCALEXICO — The teens who overdosed on prescription medication here Wednesday night are in much more stable conditions, authorities said Friday. Three of the four teens who were hospitalized are now in stable conditions and off ventilators, with an...Tags: Prescription Drugs, Personal Service
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Eight teen overdoses in a week
Imperial Valley Press Staff WriterCALEXICO — Four teens are in critical condition after overdosing on the prescription medication Baclofen on Wednesday night. The teens, ranging in age from 14 to 17 years, were found floating in water in the spa section of an apartment complex in...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Parenting, Behavioral Conditions, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry
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More details released on Calexico teens overdose
Staff WritersMore details are being released about the four Calexico teens who overdosed on medication Wednesday night. Two boys and two girls were airlifted after taking 10-milligram pills of Baclofen, a muscle relaxant, said Calexico Police Chief Jim Neujahr. The... -
Former Butcher Sentenced in Dismemberment Murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky
KTLA NewsBROOKLYN, NY (KTLA) -- A former butcher who plead guilty to kidnapping, killing and dismembering an 8-year-old Orthodox Jewish boy was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison on Wednesday. The 36-year-old Aron admitted killing the child after the boy...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Hydrocodone (drug), Dentistry and Dental Health, Raymond W. Kelly, Acetaminophen (drug)
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Chiropractor who illegally prescribed drugs pleads guilty
A Volusia County chiropractor accused of prescribing painkillers and muscle relaxers to patients using another doctor's name pleaded guilty to federal charges in Orlando on Tuesday. Joseph Wagner, who is prohibited from prescribing controlled...
Tags: Chiropractic, Ridgewood, Private Health Care, Prescription Drugs, Acupuncture
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Driver in fatal hit-and-run caught with drugs in jail
SAN DIEGO -- A woman who recently served time for a 2010 hit-and-run fatality on a Rancho Penasquitos freeway and admitted helping a prisoner sneak drugs into jail pleaded guilty Wednesday to unlawful possession of marijuana and prescription drugs at...
Tags: Punishment, Judges, Prescription Drugs, Prisons, Methamphetamine (drug)
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Arrested Glendora doctor was duped by dog X-ray, police say
L.A. NOWThe undercover sheriff’s deputy pretending to be a patient in pain presented a Glendora physician with an X-ray to accompany her tale of an injured back and neck. The only problem was the X-ray revealed a "tail" of a different...... -
Monday chatter
Change of SubjectJohn Williams and I touched on four topics today during our weekly chat on WGN-AM 720: 1. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper's announcement that he's gay. My take is that such revelations from already-famous people will become increasingly rare as society...... -
Man's drug overdose in Jerome brings murder charge for girlfriend
ghartley@schurz.comROLLA, Mo. -- A woman from Jerome is accused of supplying the prescription drugs that killed her boyfriend last winter. The Phelps County prosecuting attorney last Friday charged Laurie Ann Wilkinson, 43, with second-degree murder and distribution of a...Tags: Trazodone (drug), Prescription Drugs, Murder
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Drug-bill battle is lucrative for lobbyists, legislators
TALLAHASSEE — It's a fight between Capitol insiders with pocketbook implications for thousands of injured workers, a battle between doctors selling marked-up medications and insurers trying to protect their bottom lines.
But the two-year conflict...Tags: Hydrocodone (drug), Politics, Lobbying, U.S. House of Representatives, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida)
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Feds: Chiropractor wanted to start new life, planned to flee country
A Daytona Beach chiropractor who knew he was under investigation planned to flee to the Dominican Republic earlier this month and start a new life there, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday. Joseph Wagner, who operated the Wagner Chiropractic &...
Tags: Chiropractic, Lawyers, Dominican Republic, Crime, Law and Justice, Health and Medical Professionals
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