ADHD and drugs: treating illness, masking trouble, boosting performance
ADHD and drugs: treating illness, masking trouble, boosting performance … Still, the family worried about addiction and possible health effects of long-term use, a fear that still dogs them. Paul does thorough medical checkups every three months … Read more on Peoria Journal Star

Richard Hill: Teamwork needed to cut R.I.'s growing opium addiction
9 article by Felice J. Freyer and Lynn Arditi (“Drug-overdose deaths surging in R.I.”) should serve as a wakeup call. Addiction to opiates is now an epidemic in the Ocean State, as it is in the rest of the nation. To bring about major reductions in the … Read more on The Providence Journal

The painted lady
A role model for many in acting careers, Hoffman could now become a role model in death to those who travel this path of addiction. I think those sentiments are crap. No addict who lives every day for the drug that will soothe his soul and steal away … Read more on bcrnews.com

Voters may decide medical malpractice cap
Under the law, patients who sue for malpractice can recover no more than $ 250,000 for noneconomic damages such as pain and suffering. … Changing the law, they assert, could increase those rates enough to put community clinics out of business … Read more on Los Angeles Times