Wyoming weed laws leave patients with difficult choice: suffer or risk …

Wyoming weed laws leave patients with difficult choice: suffer or risk …

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The 60-year-old would never have considered it during employment – his former job had strict policies regarding drug use – but his disability made him jobless. … Yet, Blonigen said defendants who claim to use marijuana for medical treatment are few.
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Merchants of Meth: How Big Pharma Keeps the Cooks in Business

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But the highly addictive drug can also wreak havoc on users, ravaging everything from teeth and skin to hearts and lungs. And the mushrooming of … CHPA's Kentucky filings don't show which firm made the robocalls, but the association's 2010 and 2011 …
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High Price: Drugs, Neuroscience, and Discovering Myself by Carl Hart – review

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Hart unravels the common perception that drugs and drug addiction are the cause of many of society's problems. While he doesn't argue that illegal drugs have no negative effects, he takes the reader through his journey of discovery: that the …
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OxyContin maker closely guards its list of suspect doctors

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Over the last decade, the maker of the potent painkiller OxyContin has compiled a database of hundreds of doctors suspected of recklessly prescribing its pills to addicts and drug dealers, but has done little to alert law enforcement or medical …
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