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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: Recreational Substance Use, Arts and Culture, Surveys, Substance Abuse, Social Sciences
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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... -
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: Orlando, Private Health Care, Trials, Volusia County, Chiropractic
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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: Tylenol (drug), Crime, Law and Justice, Levi Aron, Cyclobenzaprine (drug), Acetaminophen (drug)
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Man held in ginseng, sea cucumber burglaries in Monterey Park
L.A. NOWMonterey Park police Monday arrested a man in connection with a string of ginseng and sea cucumber burglaries over the last month, authorities said. Man Van Truong, 56, of Van Nuys, is believed to have driven a dark-colored Honda used...... -
Alleged sea cucumber thief arrested; accomplice at large
L.A. NOWA Van Nuys man was under arrest Wednesday in connection with a string of ginseng and sea cucumber burglaries over the last month in Monterey Park.... -
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: Methamphetamine (drug), Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, Prescription Drugs, Judges
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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: Murder, Prescription Drugs, Trazodone (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...... -
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: Business, Crime, Law and Justice, Bill McCollum, Insurance, OxyContin (drug)
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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: Dominican Republic, Health and Medical Professionals, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Volusia County
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Rx for Danger: Records: Chiropractor illegally prescribed drugs to patients
In July 2010, a patient of Daytona Beach chiropractor Joseph Wagner accidentally overdosed within days of being prescribed painkillers, muscle relaxers and anti-anxiety drugs.
That patient lived. Five months later, another one of Wagner's patients ...Tags: FBI, Crime, Law and Justice, Chiropractic, Insurance, Prosecution
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