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By Joe Shrank
A new lawsuit filed by retired NFLers over the league-wide use of a powerful painkiller begs a question: Who's looking out for the players? MORE
By Dirk Hanson
Discovery of a mechanism that triggers inflammatory pain could lead to safer painkilling medications. MORE
Why are young Americans downing prescription pills at a fever pitch? A major new study places much of the blame on the Web. MORE
By Dirk Hanson
The return of PCP-laced cigarettes, Obama's Anti-Oxy crusade, and a Meth Epidemic on Sesame Street. MORE
In the past decade, the number of patients attending rehab for opioid addiction has increased by a factor of five. Do pill-pushing doctors deserve some of the blame? MORE
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South Asian cartels muscle into the meth market, missing actor Nick Stahl turns up in rehab, and public punishment for author's daughter for Facebook vodka photo.
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Some of these dancing addicts used to beg outside the theaters they now perform in, their director tells The Fix.
5/18/12 5:01pm
The tobacco giant won't self-congratulate too loudly for the profitable popularity of its "Crush" cigarettes among kids.
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Horse-racing's drunken spokesbeast is played by an actor who hasn't had a drink in 20 years.
5/18/12 2:57pm
Actor Shah Rukh Khan, the "King of Bollywood," is banned from a stadium in Mumbai.
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