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According to a review presented in February at the American Academy of Pain Medicine's annual meeting, methadone accounted for 5% of opioid prescriptions in the U.S. between 1999 and 2009 but was involved in 30% of opioid overdose deaths, as reported in malpractice cases, medical literature and federal and state databases. Some of these deaths occurred in heroin users being treated with methadone for addiction, but the overwhelming number of cases were in people who were prescribed the drug for chronic pain. (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...Sporting white shirts and black bottoms, the U.S. men's team looked fine. The problem was that they played lousy (the American women, at 2-5, are faring no better). After winning a bronze medal as a member of the 2006 U.S. team, John Shuster, who works as a bartender on a northern Minnesota golf course, decided he wanted to captain his own team. (See the top 10 worst figure-skating costumes...
...bases used by the Pakistani Taliban - extremist tribesmen who see Islamabad as their enemy No. 1, not the NATO troops across the border in Afghanistan - so that the Pakistani military under General Khan can hammer them with artillery or aircraft strikes. These sources say that several dozen American "trainers" are passing on intelligence on the Pakistani Taliban that was gleaned from the eye-in-the-sky drones...
Brutus, who is Haitian American, officially resides in Orlando, Fla. She left Haiti when she was 11 years old and says she returned to deliver God's message. In January 2007, she says, she heard the voice of God reveal to her that a disaster would hit Haiti and that she was to warn the Haitian people. She then began to aggressively try to speak with Haitian President René Préval. She says she was dismissed repeatedly. "He wouldn't see me," Brutus tells TIME. "No one believed me, and they thought I was a loony." (See exclusive...
...Olympics have given ice dancing additional luster in the North American market. On Monday, Feb. 22, for the first time since 1976, when the event was introduced in the Games, the Russians did not finish on top; they won the bronze, signaling a shift in the geocenter of the sport. Canadian pair Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir took the gold, while Davis and White took the silver. (Both pairs have benefited from the Russian legacy, having being trained by Igor Shpilband and Marina Zoueva, two Russian coaches who have established a mecca of ice-dancing expertise at the Arctic Figure...