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How to Live On $0 a Day: Bailouts for the Rest of Us

Lesley Stern | Posted 10.15.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Michael Jackson, Gold, Economic Crisis, Humor, Economy, Credit Cards, Recession, Lawsuit, Conan O'Brien, Bailout, Satire, Oxycontin, Financial Crisis, Extortion, Comedy, David Letterman, Insurance Companies, Emotional Damage, Pharmaceutical Industry, Banks, Depression, Windfall, Health Insurance, Healthcare, Comedy News
Lesley Stern

It doesn't really matter why you need the money, all you know is that life as you know it will cease to exist if you don't get your hands on a big chunk of cash. Yesterday.

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The Hanged Census Worker: Why Appalachia Hates Feds

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Whiskey Rebellion, Barter System, Stockholder, Marijuana, Prohibition, Feds, Newport, Civil War, Infrastructure, Moonbow, Grass, Occupational Safety, Nancy Pelosi, Environmental Movements, Coal Mine, Right to Vote, Mohawk, Lawless, Bill Tweed, Boss System, Indefeasible, Beverly Hillbillies, Hung, Ca, Louisville, George Washington, Appalachian, Civic, Tennessee, Census Worker, Mountaintop Removal, New York City Boss William Tweed, Civil Rights, Census Taker, Mystery, Kentucky Constitution, Second American Revolution, Food Safety, Pot, U.S. Constitution, Pittsburgh, Public School System, Declaration of Independence, Indiana Constitution, Cumberland Plateau, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Inalienable, Daniel Boone National Forest, Bill Sparkman, Bluegrass, Ohio, Slavery, Lexington, Illinois, Coalmine, Federal Agents, Women’s, Appalachia, Hemp, Public Health, Daniel Boone U.S. Congress, Irish Immigrants, Democracy, Middle Class Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, Mountain, Capitalism, Bossism, Meth, Consumer, Murder, Labor, Southeastern Kentucky, Prison, Oxycontin, Big Coal, 1791, Fbi, Self-Organizing, Indiana, Hanged, Politics News
Gail McGowan Mellor

The U.S. government began its life back in 1791 by shafting the Appalachian area. People have not forgotten it, perhaps because it has yet to stop happening.

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Babette Perry, New Jersey Pharmacy Technician, Sues Employer Over Fake OxyContin Holdup

AP | Posted 09.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Babette Perry, Hampton Behavioral Health Center, Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder, Pharmacy Technician Sues, Pharmacy Technician Sues Employer, Oxycontin, New Jersey, Universal Health Services Inc., New York News

MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. — A New Jersey pharmacy technician who says she was traumatized when a masked gunman burst into her store demanding OxyContin ...

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DJ AM Suicide? Had Nine OxyContin Pills In His Body

people.com | Maria Eftimiades | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: DJ AM Drugs, DJ AM Suicide, DJ AM Dead, DJ AM, Oxycontin, Adam Goldstein, DJ AM Death, Entertainment News

Authorities investigating the death of DJ AM have found that he had eight undigested OxyContin pills in his stomach and a ninth in his mouth, a law en...

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The Republican Summer Olympics of 2009

Gary Cohan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Mark Sanford, Ted Stevens, Jack Abramoff, Ann Coulter, Olympics, Lobbyists, Blue States, Larry Craig, Eliot Spitzer, Dick Cheney, Adultery, Condoleezza Rice, John Edwards, Michael Savage, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Manchurian Candidate, Constitution, Republican Party, Bob Ney, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Jim McGreevey, Mark Foley, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Social Conservatives, Ted Haggard, Rush Limbaugh, Lobbying, Scandal, Barack Obama, Red States, Homosexuality, John Ensign, Sean Hannity, Oxycontin, Neocons, Hypocrisy, Homophobia, New York Times, Neoconservatives, Alberto Gonzales, Bill O'Reilly, David Vitter, Conspiracy, Contract With America, Prostitution, Mail-Fraud, Big Tent, Tax Evasion, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Tom Delay, Teenage Pregnancy, Divorce, Internet Porn, Fox News, Phil Gramm, Hal Turner, Al Gore, Summer Olympics, Pilonidal Cyst, Vietnam Draft-Dodger, Draft-Dodging, Vietnam War, Politics News
Gary Cohan

Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.

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Michael Jackson: A Merciful Ending?

Jim Watkins | Posted 07.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson Death, Oxycontin, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson Dies, Entertainment News
Jim Watkins

I can't help but thinking the reason Michael Jackson died this week is because at least somewhere inside of him, he wanted to.

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Recent Heroin Surge: A Major Threat

Joshua Lyon | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Oxycontin, Vicodin, Heroin, War on Drugs, Drug Overdose, Overdose, Prescription Pills, Pills, Prescription Painkillers, Living News
Joshua Lyon

If you're hooked on an opiate, and you find that same high at a much cheaper price, it becomes much easier to justify using heroin.

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What Is Addiction?

Stanton Peele | Posted 03.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Senate Bill 1011, Smoking, Nida, Drugs, Joe Biden, Heroin, Coffee, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Prescription Painkillers, Nora Volkow, Coca-Cola, Slate.com, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Cigarettes, Crack Cocaine, Oxycontin, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Prescription Drugs, Cocaine, Niaaa, Addiction, Living News
Stanton Peele

Addiction is a nasty business which enslaves people. But if you're going to target that practice, then you'd better come and take all the coffee and Diet Coke the office.

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We Owe Sarah Palin An Apology

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 01.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, Levi Johnson, Crystal Meth, Sherry Johnston, Sherry Johnston Drug Charges, 23/6: News You Can Misuse, Bristol Palin Pregnancy, Sherry Johnston Oxycontin, 23/6, Palin Satire, Satire, Sherry Johnston Drug Arrest, Bristol Palin Pregnant, Oxycontin, Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin Levi Johnson, Levi Johnston, Political Satire, Limbaugh Oxycontin, Bristol Palin Levi Johnston, Sarah Palin Scandal, Bristol Palin, Political Cartoons, Video, Politics News
Matthew Filipowicz

Sarah Palin is right. It was wrong of me to automatically assume that it was crystal meth. Of course Alaskans can be addicted to other drugs! And they should be!

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Levi Johnston's Mom Drug Details Revealed

McClatchy | Zaz Hollander | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sherry Johnston Oxycontin, Oxycontin, Sarah Palin, Levi Johnston, Alaska, Bristol Palin, Sherry Johnston, Politics News

WASILLA, Alaska -- Wasilla resident Sherry L. Johnston, mother of Bristol Palin's boyfriend, faces a Jan. 6 court date for an oxycontin-related arrest...

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Largest U.S. Undercover OxyContin Buy Made In Michigan

The Oxford Press | Posted 05.29.2008 | Home

Read More: Zair Nassar, Michigan Drug Bust, Oxycontin, Home News

An undercover sting conducted May 6 by the Southwest Ohio Regional Drug Task Force resulted in the largest undercover purchase of OxyContin in the Uni...

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NH: Liz Kucinich Talks Drug Reform With 22-Year-Old MD Patient

Matt Simon | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Marijuana, Dennis Kucinich, Mitt Romney, Medical Marijuana, 2008 Election, Oxycontin, Offthebus, Elizabeth Kucinich, Home News
Matt Simon

Clayton Holton was scheduled to receive a visit from Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich Tuesday morning at his residence, the Riverside Rest Home in Dov...

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Kentucky Declares War, Sues Makers Of Oxycontin

AP | Samira Jafari | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Prescription Drugs, Kentucky, Kentucky Attorney General, Prescription Painkillers, OxyContin Lawsuit, Oxycontin, Business News

Kentucky officials on Thursday sued the manufacturer of OxyContin, the prescription painkiller dubbed "hillbilly heroin," because of widespread abuse ...

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Sharon Osbourne: Courtney Love Gave My 15-Year-Old Son OxyContin

AHN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Jack Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne, Courtney Love, OxyContin, Entertainment News

Sharon Osbourne hates Courtney Love because she allegedly gave her son Jack prescription drugs when he was just 15. The 'X Factor' star says she will...

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