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Propofol was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1989 with little thought of abuse potential. But even before the recent mainstream media coverage, the FDA was "hearing from health-care professionals about abuse by other professionals, long before Michael Jackson," says FDA spokeswoman Karen Riley. "[The Jackson news] just means I am answering a lot of propofol questions." DEA spokesman Rusty Payne says his agency was petitioned two years ago to "schedule" propofol - which would make it a controlled substance. While the research process is under way, Payne would not give a timetable on the process...
Though the attention around the previously obscure drug has increased awareness of its dangers, there is also the chance it will raise curiosity among potential abusers. Dr. David Sack, chief executive officer of Promises rehabilitation facility in Malibu, Calif., says the drug presents inherent obstacles to mainstream appeal, including its lack of street availability and its need to be administered by a needle. While Hollywood's troubled abusers have yet to start showing up at his doors with propofol problems, he doesn't rule it out. "Whenever a drug gets attention like this in the media, people want...
...economy will look like in 10 years. With any luck we won't be in a recession anymore, so revenue will be up and stimulus spending will disappear. The real budget problems lie in the long-term programs, such as Medicare and Social Security: Medicare's 2003 prescription-drug program has added nearly $1 trillion to the deficit and baby boomers' looming retirement will stress Social Security's already financially precarious situation. It's one thing to spend our way out of a recession. It's entirely different if we keep doing this forever. The U.S. is currently burdened with...
...probably get it for at auction, around $100,000. Anything to keep the house. My neighborhood's got too many foreclosed homes as it is." She points to one that lenders have yet to sell - but which she and her neighbors fear has become a nighttime lair for drug-addict squatters. (Watch a video on people facing foreclosure in Tampa...
...without meals and, according to local lore, offers the same help to impotent men that Westerners seek in Viagra. Evening khat ceremonies - regular salon gatherings (usually only of men) to chew and chat about matters great and small - are the country's basic form of socializing. (Read "U.N. World Drug Report...