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What's the Difference Between Pain Relievers? Should I Buy Generic?
Dear Lifehacker, Every time I go to the pharmacy, I'm confused. What's the difference between something like Tylenol and Advil? When should I use each one? What about sleep aids or cough medicines? Are generics okay, or should I spring for the brand name instead?
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The Making Of A Mole
Homeland Security agent Jovana Deas was torn between a burgeoning career in federal law enforcement and a family with ties to a notorious Mexican drug cartel. Was her betrayal of the agency a failure of character or of a system she should have never been part of in the first place?
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The War on Asparagus
For decades, the United States has waged what is often termed the “War on Drugs,” an international effort on behalf of law enforcement to limit the sale of illegal narcotics and other illicit drugs throughout the fifty states.
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The Heart Perils of Pain Relievers
Researchers see cardiovascular risks in frequent high doses of some common medicines.
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America’s Epidemic of Psychiatric Over-Diagnosis
More and more people around you are being diagnosed with depression or ADHD, but is that an illusion? There is an epidemic in America, but it’s not an epidemic of psychiatric disorders—it’s an epidemic of over-diagnosis that’s making billions for pharmaceutical companies and the doctors prescribing these drugs.
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FDA shuts down 1,677 online pharmacies
The FDA said it has shut down 1,677 sites for selling counterfeit or substandard medication, or for selling drugs without appropriate safeguards. Other sites received regulatory warnings. Officials said they also arrested 58 people and seized more than $41 million worth of illegal medicines.
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Lance Armstrong: You can't win Tour de France title without taking drugs
Pat McQuaid, the president of world cycling’s governing body the UCI, has hit back at claims by disgraced rider Lance Armstrong that the sport cannot change its doping image while the Irishman remains in charge.
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5 Popular Medications You Won't Believe Mess With Your Brain
If you want to terrify yourself, go into your medicine cabinet and read all of the really weird side effects at the bottom of the label. Beyond the normal "headache" or "upset stomach," you get weird shit that reads like ironic punishments from a vengeful genie.
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Digital currency seized in alleged drug law violation in Charleston
In a case believed to be the first of its kind, federal authorities have seized a Charleston man's virtual currency due to an alleged drug law violation with possible links to a shadowy online black market.
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Is the US-Mexico Border Turning into a War Zone?
How surveillance cameras, drones, and armored helicopters are fueling immigration reform's military industrial complex.
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FDA approves Boehringer drug to treat advanced lung cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a lung cancer drug made by Boehringer Ingelheim to treat patients who are suffering from late stage non-small cell lung cancer and whose tumors express a specific type of gene mutation.
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Michael Jackson doctor testifies the singer's buttocks were scarred from too many drug injections
Michael Jackson’s drug problem dated back to the early '90s, testified Dr. Stuart Finkelstein, who treated the King of Pop in 1993.
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We're Closer Than You Think to Beating HIV
At least 35 million people around the planet live with HIV, and it kills over 1.7 million people each year, so the fact that it’s currently untreatable is one of the biggest medical problems of our time. But in recent years scientific advances seem to be kicking HIV's ass more effectively than ever—so is there hope that we neutralize the virus's threat? The answer is more hopeful than you think.
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Mexican Marines capture Zetas drug lord
Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, leader of notoriously brutal cartel, was wanted by U.S. for $5 million
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Asafa Powell blames positive drug test on supplements given to him by new physiotherapist.
Accused Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell is battling to salvage his career by blaming his positive drug test for the stimulant oxilofrine on a range of new nutritional supplements prescribed to him by a physiotherapist he has only been working with for two months.
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Teen high on bath salts crashes SUV into truck and exhibits Zombie-like behavior during psychotic ep
The incident is alleged to have taken place in Buffalo, New York, and shows the aftermath of the crash with the teen writhing around on the ground.
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The Reasons Behind the Slow Pace of Executions
Opponents of the death penalty have hit upon an effective tactic: Learn who is making the lethal drugs used in executions and publicly shame them. Now, death penalty states are fighting to make the names of the drugs a state secret.
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Feds Raid Pot Dispensaries in Washington, Where the Drug is Legal.
As state laws decriminalizing marijuana begin to take effect (and grow in number), proponents of access to the drug have been holding their breaths to see how the feds would react. And in Washington State, it looks like several medical marijuana dispensaries found out the answer today as the Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed a series of raids in the Seattle area.
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‘Crack baby’ study finds poverty is worse for child development than exposure to drug in womb
Babies whose mothers smoked crack cocaine while pregnant do not face the kinds of health risks that many scientists initially feared, a new study has concluded.
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Psilocybin Mushrooms Promote Growth of New Brain Cells, Can Even Cure PTSD And Depression
New studies show that psilocybin removes the trauma and fear from memories in the minds of mice, and even stimulates the growth of a significant amount of new brain cells.
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