Drug sweep yields 55 suspects from East St. Louis, Washington Park

Drug sweep yields 55 suspects from East St. Louis, Washington Park

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After three months of targeting street-level drug dealers with undercover agents making buys, local, state and federal officers split into three groups this week and rounded up 36 of 55 suspects on whom they obtained warrants. They called it …
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One in 10 Americans have taken drugs prescribed for others

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He has a colleague who had been prescribed "ridiculous amounts" of Vicodin for a chronic back problem. … About two thirds of those who used other people's prescribed drugs were given them by a family member, friend or acquaintance, the poll showed.
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Is there such a thing as a "workaholic"?

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Oates coined the now-ubiquitous term in a 1968 essay, in which he confessed that his own addiction to industriousness had been a disorder akin to substance abuse. Of course, he … and depression [3]. That's to say nothing of its toll on family members.
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