Overdosing on heroin: This drug can bring them back
Like most of the country, Ohio has witnessed a surge in heroin use reminiscent of the smack crazes of the 1970s and 1980s. Much of the surge, which the Los Angeles Times wrote about in Tuesday's edition, is driven by pain-pill users switching to heroin … Read more on Los Angeles Times

Chris Brown should stay in rehab, not jail, says judge
A Los Angeles judge turned down a prosecutor's request Monday to send R&B singer Chris Brown to jail, citing his progress in a live-in rehabilitation program and continued good behavior. Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Mary Murray sought to have … Read more on NBCNews.com

Reese Witherspoon & Mindy Kaling Prove They Have The Best Friendship
Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling had a heart-to-heart conversation on Saturday; it just happened in a gymnasium full of teen girls and parents at Brentwood School in Los Angeles. For the school's second Young Women's Conference, the two actresses … Read more on Huffington Post

Philip Seymour Hoffman dies amid major comeback of heroin in the US
meta tag here. "This last year, we've seen a big uptick in heroin use. It's become rapidly very popular," Theodore J. Cicero, a professor of neuropharmacology at Washington University in St. Louis, told the Los Angeles Times in a phone interview Monday. Read more on Los Angeles Times