Drug

FDA: Another Government Regulatory Disaster -- II of III

Deirdre Imus | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Toxins, Antidepressants, Fda, Vioxx, Drug Companies, Green News, Bpa, Health, Pharmacueticals, Environmental Health, Children's Health, Drug, Children's Environmental Health, Politics News
Deirdre Imus

Besides a complete overhaul, a few prosecutions might be just the medicine the FDA needs.

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Mommy, Can I Have a Yummy Blue Pill?

Doug Bremner | Posted 06.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Pills, Drugs, Doctors, Medication, Pharmaceuticals, Placebo, Drug, Healthcare, Living News
Doug Bremner

Jennifer Buettner started Efficacy Brands to sell placebo pills marketed specifically for children. She calls them Obecalb -- "placebo" spelled backwards.

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Obama's Drug Past Isn't Hurting Him -- But Thousands Aren't So Lucky

Vince Beiser | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, War on Drugs, Marijuana, Drug, Cocaine, Hillary Clinton Barack Obama Cocaine Use, Politics News
Vince Beiser

Many currently incarcerated for drug use are no different than the young Barack Obama, or millions of other Americans like him -- curious kids experimenting with intoxicants for kicks.

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Ladies Who Launch: The Travel That Never Ends

Amy Swift | Posted 05.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Mexico, Travel, God, Launch, Havana, Drug, Inspire, Living News
Amy Swift

I battle addiction. My drug of choice? Travel. There is a common misperception about travel junkies. It is often said that we travel to "find" ourselves. That's not why I travel. I go looking for God.

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Pharmaceutical Payola -- Drug Marketing to Doctors

Robert Weissman | Posted 05.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Petersen, Schering-Plough, Merck, Our Daily Meds, Pharmaceutical, Marketing, Pfizer, Drug, Neurontin, Business News
Robert Weissman

How is that the industry can so effectively manipulate highly trained doctors?

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Killing in the name of public health

Mark Kleiman | Posted 01.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Bertha Madras, Ondcp, Heroin, Opiate, Narcan, Drug, Overdose, Living News
Mark Kleiman

The Office of National Drug Control Policy prefers dead heroin addicts to living heroin addicts. At least, it's hard to put any other interpretation...

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Compassion

Mark Kleiman | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bertha Madras, Drug, ONDCP, Narcan, Health, Overdose, Politics News
Mark Kleiman

The Office of National Drug Control Policy is working hard to make sure that opiate addicts keep dying of overdoses. Do you find that hard to believ...

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Supreme Court Asked To Hear Zoloft-Murder Case

AP | MEG KINNARD | Posted 12.18.2007 | Home

Read More: Zoloft, Drug, Home News

Attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of a teen sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing his grandparents when he was 12, ar...

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