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1. Phish concert provides a heavy assortment of drugs
(Entertainment/Movies)

... vice and narcotics — to supplement the venue's security. After breaking up in 2004, the band's 2009 reunion show in Hampton, Va., saw 15 multi-day hospitalizations, and three overdose deaths, over the ...

2. Pew Study
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... Many times over what is put in city water. Even the ADA and CDC admit babies are overdosed using f water in formula. No effort has been made to really inform the public how many will have forever damaged ...

3. Megan Plant charged in heroin overdose deaths
(N.J./State)

... counts of 1st Degree Drug Induced Death and one count of 3rd Degree Distribution of Heroin in relation to the Nov. 12, 2009 overdose of Christopher Coppola and Sara Malaker in Springfield. According ...

4. Comedian Greg Giraldo, 44, dies at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Comedian Greg Giraldo, 44, has died after being taken to a New Jersey hospital for an accidental drug overdose. Paramedics had to resuscitate an unconscious Giraldo ...

5. Review: ‘The Hideaway (Le Refuge)' is restricted by its own sentimentality
(Entertainment/Movies)

... heroin overdose. Starring Isabelle Carre as Mousse, the film tracks the growing relationship between the pregnant woman, Mousse, and her lover's gay brother, Paul, who is played by dreamily handsome ...

6. Jerry Lewis is a idiot
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How can a man who helps so many children over the years be such a jerk when it comes to helping those he knows all too well about? His own son died of a drug overdose. His own kids hate him for being ...

7. Christie’s making medical marijuana unworkable for New Jersey’s patients
(Opinion/Commentary)

... active substances known to man." The plant's compounds are virtually non-toxic to healthy cells and organs, do not depress the central nervous system, and are incapable of causing a fatal overdose. In ...

8. THE LAW IS WORSE THAN THE DRUG ITSELF
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Let's be pragmatic and go for the "lesser evil," if you need to use a word like "evil." NO ONE HAS EVER DIED FROM OVERDOSE ON POT. We need to stop the criminalizing of it IMMEDIATELY. It is overwhelmingly ...

9. Bret Michaels keeps adding chapters as life unfolds
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Iowa, Medical Examiner's Office determined that the death of Paul Gray, bassist for Grammy-winning metal band Slipknot, was the result of an "accidental" overdose of morphine and fentanyl, a synthetic ...

10. Michael Jackson remembered
(Entertainment/Movies)

... His death was attributed to an overdose of a powerful anesthetic (propofol). The doctor who administered the drug (Conrad Murray) is facing criminal charges (involuntary manslaughter) in connection with ...

11. Abuse of morning-after pill causing concern in India
(World/International)

... as eight times a month — a high overdose — or after every tryst with her boyfriend. Reproductive health communications expert Usha Rai recalls the case of a 12-year-old in Patna in eastern Bihar State, ...

12. Vincent Hsia
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I thought Vincent Hsia was a christian? I thought that he would never put greed or money before his daughter's? He's a selfish man and as a result of his actions, young men and woman have overdosed and ...

13. ‘Lend Me a Tenor’ looks like a winner
(Entertainment/Movies)

... by Tito Merelli (Anthony LaPaglia), a famed Italian singer slated to perform the title role in "Otello" with a local opera company. But too much wine and an accidental overdose of sleeping pills render ...

14. ‘The Lost Boys’ star Corey Haim found dead
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY ALICIA CRUZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Teen actor Corey Haim, 38, was found dead in his San Fernando Valley, Calif. home last night of an accidental drug overdose. Reports in say Haim, a native of ...

15. Isn't the real measure of successfull medical treatment keeping the patient alive?
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... an approach as the rate of relapse within the first is as high as 90%. I know of many opiate addicts who relapsed after spending several months in a 12 step program that overdosed the first time they ...

16. continuing to think like addicts...
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... to overdose. For too long, people have simply assumed that an addict goes to treatment and gets better-- and if he/she relapses it is because of failure on the part of the addict. Addiction is more complicated ...

17. Keeping our eye on the goal
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... the medication is opiate based. We seem to have lost site of what our true goal is. I ask, if we are reducing the overdose death rate, increasing the productivity of addicted patients, returning them ...

18. TRUTH HURTS...RECORD PROFITS...and the TOLL of ..........profits over people, the bigger picture
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...  symptons of outrageous criminal profiteering by BIG PHARM, not to include OVERDOSE DEATHS we see everyday on TV...HELLO.. .....Afaganistan is the number producer of OPIUM.......what's the common derivative ...

19. Prescription Abuse
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I lost my husband approximately a year and a half ago due to an accidental overdose of prescription medications. He was just trying to feel good and over did the medication. Unfortunately, I was not aware ...

20. Experts suggest Tiger Woods could have a problem with addiction
(Sports/Professional)

... was listed as "OD" (overdose) and that doctors had to insert a tube to help him breathe. This is no longer merely a scandal. It is beginning to feel like a life-threatening emergency. HERE IS DR. DREW ...