Morphine

The War Over Prescription Painkillers

Radley Balko | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Pain, Pain Relief, Drug War, Oxycontin, Morphine, Richard Paey, Chronic Pain, Forida, Painkillers, William Hurwitz, Vicodin, Dea, Pill Mill, Politics News
Radley Balko

To the extent that there is any problem at all with painkiller abuse and overdoses, it's due more to a decade of aggressive policing, obstinate federal law enforcement agencies, and the encroachment of law enforcement into the practice of medicine than lax government oversight.

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We Were Counting Breaths Till the Last One

Carol Jones | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Hospice, Circle of Light, Morphine, Conscious Dying, Healthy Living News
Carol Jones

To this day I regret not asking him ahead of time what he would have liked as he was dying.

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HuffPost Review: Peter Frampton, Plus Conversations with Serena Ryder and Ryan Star, and more

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ryan Star, Serena Ryder, Peter Frampton, The Lemonheads, The Wizard of Oz, Madonna, Jason Castro, Neil Young, A&M Records, Mary Gauthier, John Prine, Humble Pie, Rock Star, Matt Hires, Private Practice, The Betales, The Pixies, Max Webster, Morphine, PS I Love You, Atlantic Records, The Rolling Stones, Roger Miller, Lie to Me, Geffen Records, Juliana Hatfield, Rooney, Kenny G, Leonard Cohen, Pearl Jam, Lenny Kravitz, Stupertramp, Junos, Robert Francis, The Philanthropist, Joni Mitchell, American Idol, Ani DiFranco, Dave Navarro, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

At this point in his career, Peter Frampton could have tossed out a second instrumental album and won another Grammy. Thankfully, this time out, he played his heart in addition to his axe, creating what could be the best album of his career.

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Rick Died As He Requested: And I Was There

Lea Lane | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Death and Dying, Hospice Care, Cancer, Assisted Suicide, Jack Kevorkian, Health, Morphine, Healthy Living News
Lea Lane

The HBO special "You Don't Know Jack," with Al Pacino as Dr. Kevorkian, brings to mind my own experience with assisted suicide.

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Child Mercy Killings: Parents Say Doctors Hastened Death For Kids Dying In Pain

AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mercy Killing, Child Cancer, Cancer, Morphine, Medicine, Child Death, Child Hospital, Healthy Living News

CHICAGO — It's a situation too agonizing to contemplate – a child dying and in pain. Now a small but provocative study suggests that docto...

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Chronic Pain and Torture

Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Control, Pain Treatment, Opioids, Human Rights, Palliative Care, Human Rights Watch, Morphine, Torture, Drug Policy, World News
Joe Amon

Treating severe pain is also almost entirely in the hands of governments. Political commitment is needed to overcome the regulatory barriers and lack of training of health providers worldwide.

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My Top Ten Old New (Or Is It New Old?) Records of 2009

Tony Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Brendan Benson, Dave Champagne, Jim Fitting, Miles Davis, A.C. Newman, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Treat Her Right, Ella Fitzgerald, Mark Sandman, Carnegie Hall, Bing Crosby, Love, Scott LaFaro, Betty Davis, Morphine, Billy Conway, Death, Bob Dylan, Herb Alpert, The Disciplines, Arthur Lee, Paul Smith, Don Friedman, Bill Evans, Sly Stone, Pete LaRoca, Frank Sinatra, Clive Davis, Lani Hall, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, Jackson 5, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

Most of the "new" music I've gotten into this year is actually old music that's never been heard before, dredged up from the vaults just in time to make a buck before recorded music ceases to have any monetary value whatsoever.

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Ten Records That Made This Cruddy Decade a Little More Bearable

Tony Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Yankees, Meg White, The Strokes, The Darkness, The Raconteurs, Brendan Benson, Richard Hell, Beck, A.C. Newman, Otis Redding, Television, Fleet Foxes, Fiery Furnaces, Mark Sandman, Destroyer, The Velvet Underground, White Stripes, Bright Eyes, Jonas Brothers, Jack White, Bill Haley, Dana Colley, The Libertines, Bon Iver, Neko Case, Morphine, Mosquitos, Led Zeppelin, Lil Wayne, Bob Dylan, Joan Jett, John Lennon, Mickey Lee Lane, Juju Stelbach, Pete Doherty, Dan Bejar, Detroit Cobras, Lady GaGa, New Pornographers, Jay-Z, Rachael Nagy, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

The ten records that made my decade may not be the most cutting-edge or most obscure or significant of groundbreaking. But they're mine, and I love 'em all passionately. Here's my soundtrack to the decade of "Mission Accomplished."

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Record Casts New Light On Doctors, Nurses Involved In Katrina Hospital Deaths

ProPublica | Sheri Fink | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tenet, New Orleans, Louisiana, Memorial Hospital, Memorial Hospital and Katrina, Morphine, Katrina Anniversary, Dr. Anna Pou, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, Uptown New Orleans, Lifecare, Memorial Medical Center, Euthanasia, Health Care, Memorial Hostpiatl and Hurricane Katrina, Home News

The smell of death was overpowering the moment a relief worker cracked open one of the hospital chapel's wooden doors. Inside, more than a dozen bodie...

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Many Of World's Poor Not Permitted Access To Morphine

New York Times | DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dying in Pain, Pain Relief, World Poverty, Morphine, Business News

Although the rainy season was coming on fast, Zainabu Sesay was in no shape to help her husband. Ditches had to be dug to protect their cassava and pe...

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