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By Dirk Hanson
Today the DEA imposed a two-year suspension on Cardinal Health, the second largest distributor of the powerful painkillers. MORE
House passes bill to help monitor painkiller prescriptions, rats on cocaine love Mile Davis, and Muammar Gaddafi may have been a viagra-popping sex addict. MORE
Children in one of Canada's First Nations communities are at the front line of a staggering prescription drug problem. MORE
Opana overthrows meth and Oxy as small town America's new favorite drug. MORE
Florida enforces drug tests for state employees, politicians block heroin treatment for heroin addicts, and smahed horse-and-buggy drivers collide with cops. MORE
Pharmacists in the Sunshine State claim that Cardinal Health cut off pain meds without warning. DEA warns of "danger" to the public. MORE
By Will Godfrey
Debate rages on delisting OxyContin in Canada, feds end medical marijuana truce in California, and Lil Wayne "did not" pass out drunk before Bahamas concert. MORE
US Rep. William Keating wants a law to force pharma companies to make pills harder to abuse. MORE
A lethal combination of benzos and booze may have killed Whitney Houston. Is one of the most over-prescribed (and profitable) drugs in America really that dangerous? MORE
Pharmacists resort to guns, cameras and bullet-proof glass to ward off a rash of painkiller robberies. MORE
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