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19 hrs ago | Leader Post

Rising OxyContin use spells trouble

What do accused Lower Mainland killer Jamie Bacon, actress Lindsay Lohan and Track Palin, son of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, have in common? Well, it's the same thing that links convicted local murderer Dennis Karbovanec to rocker Courtney Love and radio personality Rush Limbaugh.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Drugs, Rush Limbaugh, Canada, Dilaudid, Hydromorphone (generic)

Sat Nov 28, 2009

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Rising pain pill use taking deadly toll

Bob Stiles can be reached via e-mail or at 724-836-6622. By Bob Stiles TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, November 29, 2009 Americans seem to have a fixation with pain medicine.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Medicine, Methadone, Medication, Duragesic, Fentanyl (generic), Westmoreland County, PA, Pittsburgh Metro

Fri Nov 27, 2009

EDGEnewengland.com News Feed

Levi's Mom Sentenced to 3 Years for Drug Dealing

Levi Johnston's fame as the unwed father of Sarah Palin's grandson paved the way to a photo spread for Playgirl.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication

Thu Nov 26, 2009

WPBF-TV

St. Lucie County Jail Officials Reveal OxyContin Epidemic

Within the last two years, St. Lucie County Jail officials have had to deal with a startling trend: more and more of their inmates are addicted to prescription drugs, and it's prescription drugs that have landed them behind bars.

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Related Topix: St Lucie County, FL, Medicine, Medication, Drugs, Percocet, Acetaminophen/Oxycodone (generic)

Wed Nov 25, 2009

St. Petersburg Times

Police: Plan to rob man of pain pills at Clearwater pharmacy ends in shooting, arrests

A scheme to rob a man of his prescription painkillers went awry Tuesday, police said, leading to the arrests of three men - one accused of shooting him in the leg.

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Related Topix: Clearwater, FL, Medicine, Medication, Palm Harbor, FL, Tampa, FL

Richmond Register

Madison drug arrests made in statewide sweep

Two Madison County residents are among 15 people arrested Tuesday on charges of forging prescriptions for the pain medication OxyContin, the state attorney general's office announced.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Medicine, Medication, Letcher, KY

MiamiHerald.com - Miami & Ft. Lauderd...

Pain clinics

A Broward County grand jury issued a damning report Thursday bemoaning the explosion of illegal painkillers sold through Broward pain clinics -- and warning that reforms passed by the Legislature may not be enough.

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Related Topix: Broward County, FL, Explosion, Medicine, Medication, Drugs, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Parry Sound North Star

a More help needed for addictsa

Prescription medication addiction doesn't just happen to the "druggies" or the young, but even holds on to those who try to stop after taking it for legitimate physical pain.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Canada, Medicine, Medication, Suicide,

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Oxford Review

A patient pox

For most of his life, Barrie Morrisey only thought of shingles as part of the roof that covered his house.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Shingles, Health, Pain, Medication, Headache, Chickenpox

Sun Nov 22, 2009

SeacoastOnline

Nurse is sentenced for drug charges

A former nurse at Haven Health Center of the Seacoast was sentenced to three years of probation, including six months of home confinement, for fraudulently obtaining drugs from the local nursing home.

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Related Topix: Prison, Hampton, NH, Medicine, Medication, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Healthcare Law

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Palm Beach Post

Feds bust huge PalmBeach County oxycodone operation

It was the largest such prescription drug-selling operation yet dismantled, according to federal court documents and three sources with knowledge of the investigation.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Palm Beach County, FL, Florida, Drugs, Palm Beach, FL, West Palm Beach Metro

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Kdka.com

'Big Brother' Winner Seeks Bail In Mass. Drug Case

The winner of the CBS reality television show "Big Brother 9," accused of trying to sell a powerful prescription painkiller, is again asking to be released on bail until his trial.

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Related Topix: Game Show, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television, Big Brother, Drugs, Medicine, Medication, Delray Beach, FL, Pittsburgh, PA

Huntsville Forester

One in five Grade 8 students has used prescription drugs recreationally: study

It can be snorted or swallowed and have you hooked within days. Sound scary? How about the fact that one in five Grade 8 students in the Simcoe Muskoka region have recreationally experimented with this type of drug.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Family, Kids, Medicine, Medication, Percodan, Aspirin/Oxycodone (generic), Tylenol, Tempra, Acetaminophen (generic), Demerol, Meperidine (generic)

The Carolina Channel

Nurse Arrested, Accused Of Stealing Drugs

An Upstate nurse was arrested, accused of stealing drugs from the hospital where she worked.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication

Thu Nov 19, 2009

C-Health

Ont. looking to impose new rules to restrict OxyContin, other painkillers

Ontario may have new rules before the end of the year to restrict how the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin is prescribed and dispensed, as well as other narcotics and controlled substances, government officials said.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Drugs, Canada,

The Herald-Gazette

Waller: Deaths accidental but tied to drugs

Sheriff Larry Waller has announced that preliminary crime lab results on four unexplained deaths had been called into his office.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Prison, Medicine, Duragesic, Fentanyl (generic), Medication

The Sentinel-Echo

Woodbine man sentenced in London for drugs, firearms

A Woodbine man was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in London to 180 months in prison for a drug conspiracy and possessing firearms.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Prison, London, KY, Medicine, Medication, Drug Enforcement Administration

Wed Nov 18, 2009

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Legal drugs blamed for four Lamar County deaths

In just four days, four people in rural Lamar County died ofA legal drugs prescribed for them.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Atlanta, GA, Atlanta Metro, Medicine, Duragesic, Fentanyl (generic), Medication

Tue Nov 17, 2009

KXLF

Prescription For Addiction: Montana's New Drug Problem

Part One: Prescription pills killed more Montanans last year than motor vehicle accidents, homicides, and meth combined.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Montana, Medicine, Medication, Cascade County, MT, Great Falls, MT

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Hot Button: Is your drugstore safe?

Local pharmacies are being hit-hard-by robbers seeking OxyContin, and pharmacists are wondering what they can do to protect themselves and their customers Late last winter, just hours after he returned from downtown Seattle where he had been assisting police with an ongoing investigation of a robbery at his pharmacy, Mike Donohue, owner of Bob ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Seattle Metro, Drugs, Drug Enforcement Administration

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