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Central Kentucky drug addicts turning to heroin
smojica@amnews.comNow that law enforcement officials and doctors have cracked down on the abuse of prescription painkillers, a growing number of central Kentucky drug addicts are turning to heroin. “We’ve been finding heroin here, and officers in Lincoln...Tags: Substance Abuse, Percocet (drug), Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Prisons
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Pill-mill docs often avoid prison, but street-level dealers get locked up
In June 2010, Margaret Schoendorf was arrested after she sold an undercover detective 47 painkillers in Orange County. The same day, agents arrested doctors Roman Mosai and Michael Moyer on charges they were illegally doling out addictive painkillers...
Tags: Winter Park, Lawyers, Trials, Punishment, Organized Crime
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Beckley Treatment Center
On February 4, 2013, WDBJ7 broadcast a news story dealing with “pill mills” and the improper distribution of pain medications and other prescription drugs. During that report, the Beckley Treatment Center in Beckley, West Virginia, was...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Employees, Drugs and Medicines, Career and Workplace, Chemical Industry
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Opioid painkillers tied to driving injuries
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People prescribed high doses of powerful painkillers are more likely to be injured while driving than those taking very low doses, according to a new study from Canada. The drugs, known as opioids, include common painkillers...Tags: Pain, Medical Research, Injuries and Wounds, Internists, Prescription Drugs
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Late singer Mindy McCready played Lehigh Valley well before her troubles began
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGTroubled country singer Mindy McCready, who was found dead on Sunday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in an Arkansas home Sunday, played the Lehigh Valley at least once, but it was several years before her troubles with the law...... -
Man, 22, federally indicted in connection with two Baltimore murders
A 22-year-old Baltimore man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with two murders, which occurred in 2006 and 2007 and both had led to earlier charges against other people. The man charged, a Remington resident named Kyle Stevens,...Tags: Murder, Justice System, Trials, FBI, Crime, Law and Justice
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Tragedies connect parents
Michelle Ross of Oklahoma City never followed the playing career of Erik Kramer, who was the Bears' quarterback in the mid-1990s. "I am not much of a sports person," she said. But after coming across a Tribune story about Kramer's late son, Griffen,...
Tags: Punishment, Behavioral Conditions, Depression, National Football League, Arts and Culture
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Heroin deaths rise as crackdown on prescription drug abuse succeeds
As efforts to crack down on the abuse of prescription drugs have worked, a new problem has emerged, with addicts who can no longer get their fix by popping pills turning to the old-fashioned street drug heroin, health and law enforcement officials say....Tags: Perry Hall, Howard County, Maryland State Police, Ocean City, Behavioral Conditions
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A fatal toll on concertgoers as raves boost cities' income
On the edge of the Mojave, music promoter Pasquale Rotella staged a rave about 11 years ago that ended with a coroner's wagon rolling down desert roads. Five people died of overdoses and drug-related car crashes during or shortly after the Nocturnal...
Tags: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, MetLife Stadium, Hospitals and Clinics, Science and Technology, Electronics
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Country star Mindy McCready dead of apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound
HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. -- Mindy McCready, who hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career, has died. She was 37. Waren Olmstead, the coroner in Cleburne County, Ark., said in a statement McCready died Sunday apparently...
Tags: Suicide, Trials, Abusive Behavior, Tim McGraw, Punishment
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Singer Mindy McCready dies in apparent suicide
HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — Mindy McCready, who hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career, died Sunday in Arkansas in an apparent suicide. She was 37. The Cleburne County Sheriff's Office said in a news...
Tags: Suicide, Trials, Abusive Behavior, Punishment, Drew Pinsky
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Report: Deputy recognized wanted drug dealer as he drove by
FloriDUHThis wanted man was in the right place at the right time. A road deputy with an eagle's eye spotted the driver of a green Ford with an Indiana tag that passed him in Englewood East as being wanted for charges on two undercover drug buys last October,...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Hydromorphone (drug), Prosecution
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