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NEWS ABOUT: drugs

drugs stories: 265 news summaries

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Cheap Anticancer Drugs Are Ignored

Why? They don't make pharmeceutical companies enough money

Apr 5, 07 9:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ralph Moss writes about why inexpensive cancer treatments get no research dollars. The publisher of a newsletter that covers both conventional and alternative cancer therapies, Moss blames the inability to patent already discovered and available chemicals and drugs for the situation. More »

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cancer • medicine • medical breakthrough • health • drugs • research • treatment

Keith Richards: "I Snorted
My Dad"

Rolling Stones guitarist is just as weird as we all suspected

Apr 4, 07 10:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Legendary rock guitarist and professional strange person Keith Richards—still alive against all apparent odds—admitted yesterday to snorting cocaine laced with his own father's ashes. "He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared," he... More »

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entertainment • music • drugs • Keith Richards • Rolling Stones • rock stars • weird • cremation • cocaine

HGH Isn't Worth the Hysteria

Hyped as the next big doping scandal, there's not much evidence it even works

Mar 27, 07 11:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Crusaders against performance enhancing drugs should lighten up about Human Growth Hormone: In the sports version of the war on drugs, anabolic steroids are heroin and HGH is marijuana, writes Daniel Engber. Studies haven't shown any definitive increase in athletic abilities resulting from taking HGH, and they have minimal harmful... More »

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medicine • sports • War on Drugs • steroids • drugs • hormones • athlete • human growth hormone

IT WAS AN OVERDOSE

ME rules Anna Nicole's death accidental,
citing nine drugs in
her system

Mar 26, 07 1:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Anna Nicole overdosed on prescription painkillers and sleeping meds, the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on Smith reported today, calling the death accidental. There were nine different drugs in her system at the time of her death, including three antidepressants or anti-anxiety drugs—methadone, Lexapro and Zoloft. More »

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Anna Nicole Smith • drugs • obituary • autopsy • celebrity • overdose

Bong Case
4 SCOTUS

A Supreme Court case weighs student's right to "glorify" drug use

Mar 20, 07 10:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - A student glorifying illegal drug use shouldn't be protected by the First Amendment, Ken Starr argued before the Supreme Court yesterday in the case of a high school student suspended for displaying a banner reading "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" during the Winter Olympics Torch Relay in Juneau, Alaska... More »

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Samuel Alito • John Roberts • Kenneth Starr • Alaska • bongs • drugs • First Amendment • drug use • Juneau • Olympic Games • US Supreme Court

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