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Word: dilaudid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really achieved any kind of life. My nascent marriage was showing signs of miscarrying. A contracted novel I had completed was about to be rejected. During the writing of that doomed book, I had taken to ingesting prolific amounts of narcotics. I didn't take these drugs--Vicodin, Percocet, Dilaudid, morphine sulfate, Talwin, Darvon, codeine, the occasional balloon of street heroin--to help me write; I took them to make me feel better about how badly I was writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Requiem | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...sweet-natured, born-again Christian and imagine the gruesome crime to which she confessed in Houston, Texas, on June 13, 1983. Back then she was a drug-addicted prostitute who, during a weekend orgy with her boyfriend, had consumed an astonishing quantity of heroin, Valium, speed, percodan, mandrax, marijuana, dilaudid, methadone, tequila and rum. The two then took a pickax and hacked to death Jerry Lynn Dean, 27, her ex-lover, and Deborah Thornton, 32, his companion of the moment, while they slept. Tucker, who left the pickax embedded in Thornton's chest, boasted at her trial that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why So Many Want to Save Her | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...legal drugs and loved illegal ones," he says when he comes back to earth. "The doctors don't like to hear me say that. But this is safe. It's just like air." Of course, laughing gas isn't the only remedy at his disposal. There are injections of Dilaudid, doses of hallucinogens, various vials of white powder, a pack of Benson & Hedges and a daily highball. "I'm an Irishman," he declares. "I can handle my liquor! Whaddaya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIMOTHY LEARY: DR. TIM'S LAST TRIP | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...drug ring in West Columbia, S.C., got its goods in a macabre way: from dying cancer victims. In some cases, devious dealers posing as good Samaritans stole Dilaudid pain pills and morphine from patients, leaving their victims with only aspirin to ease their suffering. But police say as many as 20 patients at the Veterans Affairs hospital sold their drugs to dealers. One patient convinced VA officials that he needed 60 Dilaudid a month to treat his severe arthritis. Another made a $1,200 profit, even though the going rate was $10 a pill, a fraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Profiting from Pain | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

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