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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. Comment?
Sherry Johnston, Levi's mother, is sentenced to 3 years...
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Sherry Johnston was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for dealing the prescription painkiller OxyContin. Comment?
Reality TV winner asks bail until trial
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. Comment?
Media has significant role in drug deaths
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Opioid-related news media reports and poisoning mortality, 1999 - 2005, United States. Comment?
Longmont police officer charged with felonies
Jack Kimmett, Longmont police officer A Longmont police officer who was arrested last week on suspicion of giving prescription drugs to a confidential informant, with whom investigators suspect he was having a relationship, was charged Friday with numerous crimes including two felonies. Comment?
Huge drug bust nets more arrests
Police continued making arrests Friday in largest roundup of drug traffickers in the city's history. Comment?
Study examines temporal association between media coverage and opioid-related deaths
Increases in deaths from opioid drugs such as OxyContin may be linked to the volume of coverage such deaths receive in the news, according to a study from Children's Hospital Boston and the University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill. Comment?
'Big Brother' winner accused of trying to sell painkillers renews bail request
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. Comment?
'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. Comment?
Sherry Johnston, Levi's mother, is sentenced
Sherry Johnston was sentenced today to three years in prison for dealing OxyContin. Comment?
Carpet cleaner extracts painkillers from customer's home
Geoffrey Roll, who, after cleaning the woman's carpets, returned several times claiming to be looking for a brush he had lost inside the home, kept asking the homeowner to use her bathroom - the place she stored her prescription Oxycontin pills, the story stated. Comment?
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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. Comment?
Rear ended by a drunk driver then effed in the rear by the medical system.
Bone graft gone wrong. Testicle swollen, major pain, difficulty walking, Doctors not helping. Comment?
Grand jury puts Broward pill mills on notice
They say they're pain clinics. But the Broward State Attorney calls them something else: pill mills, a place where people addicted to pain killers and narcotics can get pills-- lots of them-- fraudulently. Comment?
Ontario cracking down on prescription pill abuse
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY Published on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 12:00AM EST Last updated on Friday, Nov. Comment?
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. Comment?
Grand Jury Wants To Crack Down On Pill Mills
Share + Nov 20, 2009 12:03 am US/Eastern Broward County has become known as the "pill mill capital" of the United States. Comment?
Orlando council candidate jailed, called 'drug dealer'
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The Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation served search warrants on the home and business of Ezell Harris and after recovering thousands of highly-addictive pain killers like Hydrocodone and Oxycodone, the heroin-withdrawal drug Methadone and the anti-anxiety drug Xanax, they arrested him Thursday. Comment?
City of Tonawanda: Cleaner charged with theft of customer's painkillers
City of Tonawanda police arrested a Lackawanna man for allegedly stealing a customer's prescription pain medication while cleaning her carpets. Comment?
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. Comment?