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...water polo, the bulk of the talent on the secondary level is in California,” Harvard coach Erik Ferrar said. “There are some good programs in Florida, and you get the occasional nugget out of Chicago...
This is definitely not the first time that the mysterious "whisperer" has plagued the campus with his eerie calls. According to the same article linked above, Harvard University Police Department identified a man in south Florida as the original “serial whisperer” in 2001. Similar calls were reported in 2003. But police could not take action because making phone calls was not illegal...
Meanwhile, deaths related to prescription-drug use in Florida rose from 2,780 in 2006 to 3,317 in 2007, and then to 3,750 in 2008. The last figure is equivalent to about 10 reported deaths a day. That's more than the number of fatalities from street drugs like cocaine and heroin. It doesn't help that in Florida, you don't need to be a doctor to run a pain-management clinic, Lamberti says. "You need a background check to get a liquor license - you can't be a convicted felon and open...
...clinics are coming under more fire than ever. Florida legislators have already passed a law that is supposed to create a database to track pain-pill purchases - as 38 other states already have. And there's more legislation in the pipeline this year, including laws that would make it illegal for anyone other than a doctor in good standing to run one of the clinics, ban advertising by the clinics and limit how much pain medicine can be dispensed at one time...
State senator Dave Aronberg, who represents part of South Florida and is sponsoring anti-pill-mill legislation, acknowledged that money is an unsolved matter. "There are grants to get it going. Then we have to figure out a recurring funding mechanism," he says. Action must be taken, he says, because anyone can end up ensnared by addiction, given how easy it is to get pills. "I get all these stories - people telling me about their brother dying, their sister dying," he says. "These are heads of families who end up in a terrible situation because of a workplace injury...