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...suicide haunted Anita Rutnam long before she arrived at Syracuse University. The Winchester, Mass., teenager had a history of mental illness and had even attempted to kill herself. During her junior year of college, she tried again. On a February morning in 1998, just days after a campus counselor recommended she be hospitalized for her suicidal tendencies, Rutnam threw herself off the eighth floor of a Syracuse dormitory and fell 90 ft. to the patio below...
...smashed to remove the time-release coating, then snorted or injected, generating a high as intoxicating as that of heroin. So popular and addictive is OxyContin these days that it has stirred up a blizzard of a crime wave through the towns of Calais and Bangor, say drug counselors and police investigators. People are using bogus prescriptions to obtain the drug, or they are smuggling the pills across the nearby Canadian border. "Three months ago, we had needles show up outside the middle school," says local drug counselor Carrie McDonald...
...games in 1974; of an apparent heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn. Forced off the team after two seasons because of drug problems, he pawned both of his Super Bowl rings and lived in a cardboard box before ending a two-decade struggle with substance abuse and becoming an addiction counselor...
...survived the plunge. But three years later, Rutnam still feels the effects of that day. She walks with a limp, has not been able to finish college - and is suing her former school for malpractice and negligence. Her suit, which is awaiting trial, asserts that, given the campus counselor's advice, school officials should have done more to prevent her suicide attempt...
...cries out, there should be a set of mechanisms whereby the right people learn about it." Others point out that parents must play a role too - by checking out a college's psychological services in advance and by not putting too much pressure on kids. Says Ed Hu, college counselor at Harvard-Westlake, a Los Angeles prep school: "They're just pushing their kids, causing the stress, not aware of the toll...