A year ago today, Matthew Lyle died from a drugs overdose - Now a website detailing graphically the Bangor addict's tragic life has been launched by his dedicated family as a warning to young people everywhere.
Only two days before being found slumped in a lifeless heap on his bedroom floor, Matthew Lyle talked excitedly about a future finally free from the addiction of booze and drugs.<...
Was in Manhattan. Went to Wall Street. Asked for my money back. Told to go rub the bull's snout. While most folks know where they were when Kennedy was shot or Henderson scored, doctors remember where they were for important medical events such as the news of the Human Genome completion, the Vioxx recall and all PGA championships.
I first heard of the Vioxx recall in Manhattan, with the ...
"I'm responsible for the whole thing. I want you to know I'm sorry for what happened," Spletzer said.
Spletzer, who had no run-ins with the law before the crash, had a small amount of diazepam (Valium) in her blood at the time of the crash, a Berrien County Sheriff's Department report said.
Spletzer fell asleep behind the wheel of her Monte Carlo about midnight on Michigan 139 an...
by Jim Kouri - PENSACOLA, FL -- An Apalachicola, Florida osteopathic physician, Thomas G. Merrill was sentenced to life imprisonment on 98 counts of wire fraud, health care fraud, and distribution of controlled substances.
United States District Judge M. Casey Rodgers sentenced Merrill, age 70, to life imprisonment on five counts in which Merrill prescribed quantities of oxycodone, morphi...
Level of corruption in the Philippines, however, is still very high despite pride in being the only predominantly Catholic country in Asia.
Lately, our mass communications are occupied with the dynamics of applied social psychology. I am not referring to scams, Erap secret liaisons, Subic rape case but the highly immeasurable, controversial and difficult to judge morality issues. The nati...
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People who buy medicines such as Viagra and Prozac online are playing "Russian roulette" with their health, according to an investigation into the booming internet trade in prescription drugs.
Websites are springing all over the internet offering people the chance to buy anything from slimm...
THOUSANDS of consumers are playing 'Russian roulette' with their lives by buying prescription drugs online which may be laced with poisonous chemicals, experts warned yesterday.
The Trading Standards Institute has reported a boom in such sales as people increasingly turn to the Internet to self-diagnose and medicate their ailments.
But it said those who buy from foreign websites r...
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"MY first reaction to Rahul Mahajan's arrest was the sinking realisation that cocaine prices would hit the roof," says Gopal, a recovering addict at a detoxification centre. "But prices should normalise once the police action subsides," he adds, with the air of a seasoned stock analyst.
Apart from appearing as a minor bull-run on the illicit drug market, the arrest of Rahul Mahajan, son...