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Healthcare and 12 Million Elephants in the Room: Undocumented Immigrants

Sam Sedaei | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Immigration Reform, Joe Wilson, Illegal Immigrants, Mexico, Narcotics, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Politics News
Sam Sedaei

If we truly want to address the issue of high health care costs and lack of access, we must address the impact that illegal immigration has on the system.

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Panel Wants Ban on Percocet and Vicodin

nytimes.com | Gardiner Harris | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Food and Drug Administration, Acetaminophen, Prescription Painkillers, Ban, Percocet, Prescription Drugs, Women's Health, Painkillers, Liver, Vicodin, Men's Health, Narcotics, Liver Health, Wellness, Health, Living News

A federal advisory panel voted narrowly on Tuesday to recommend a ban on Percocet and Vicodin, two of the most popular prescription painkillers in the...

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Celebrity "Roadkill": A Black Box Warning for Physicians

Gary Cohan | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Medical Ethics, Michael Jackson, Dangerous Controlled Substance, Drug Addiction, Roadkill, Physicians, Celebrity Culture, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Doctor Shopping, Beverly Hills, Self-Esteem, Justice Department, Prescription Painkillers, Judy Garland, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Just Say No, Fame, Opiates, Drug Enforcement Administration, Deepak Chopra, Drug Abuse, Heath Ledger, Narcotics, Pain Medications, Hippocratic Oath, Celebrities, Hollywood, Black Box Warning, Entertainment News
Gary Cohan

How can a vulnerable physician resist the temptation to "bend the rules" for these "tabloid elites?"

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Fighting My Own Drug War: An Excerpt From What's Left of Us

Richard Farrell | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Excerpt, Entertainment, Memoirs, Author, Books, Drugs, War on Drugs, Heroin, Aa, Rehab, God, Richard Farrell, Memoir, Living, Narcotics, Cocaine, Living News
Richard Farrell

Heroin is not a cold-shake like cocaine. The impurities used to cut heroin need to be cooked off in boiling water before you shoot it intravenously.

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Afghanistan Drug War: US Drug Raid Classifies Poppyseeds As 'Narcotics'

GlobalPost | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan Drugs, Afghanistan Poppy, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Drug War, Foreign Affairs, Afghanistan Drug Trade, Heroin, Narcotics, Poppyseeds, Afghanistan War, Advocacy, World News

Fans of poppyseed bagels may want to start glancing furtively around for undercover narcs before taking a bite of their black-speckled breakfast rolls...

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Pain, Drugs, Laws and Compassion

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 05.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Pain, Narcotics, Pain Medications, Legalize Marijuana, Legalization, Narco-Trafficking, Living News
Arthur Rosenfeld

The cost of America's war on drugs goes beyond mere economic dimensions. But there's a drug war casualty that gets less play -- the stigma attached to those who legally use narcotic analgesics: people in pain.

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Mystery of Ex-FBI Agent Missing in Iran Gets Close House Attention

Jeff Stein | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Dubai, black_market, Sen._Bill_Nelson, black_ops, Fbi, Obama, Congress, Iran, national_security, Watergate, cigarette_smuggling, Narcotics, Safirrosetti, dawud_salahuddin, sean_hannity, david_kaplan, house_foreign_affairs_committee, Kish, business_integrity_international, carl_shoffler, robert_levinson, ira_silverman, david_belfield, hillary_clinton, fox_news, center_for_public_integrity, Washington-United States, Washington-Dc, World News
Jeff Stein

Iranian officials insist they don't know anything about the disappearance or whereabouts of Levinson, a career FBI agent with a specialty in international crime.

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Defeating Narco-Terrorism

Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Drug Cartels, Drugs, Hugo Chavez, Mexico, Mycoherbicides, Heroin, Hamas, Hezbollah, Cannabis, Venezuela, National Security, Middle East, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Afghanistan, Narcotics, Un, Cocaine, Narco-Terrorism, World News
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld

The nexus between transnational criminal organizations and terrorist groups does not end with illegal drugs. Yet, U.S. and international law-enforcement agencies overlook the connections between them.

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Rangoon Raids Yield 28 Kilograms Of Heroin

Irrawaddy.org | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

Read More: Poppy, Myanmar, Drug Raid, Burma, Rangoon, Kota Tegap, Drugs, Heroin, Golden Triangle, Narcotics, Opium, Asia, World News

Police and customs officers in Rangoon have confirmed that a special anti-narcotics task force has seized substantial quantities of heroin in a series...

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