Word: harmful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Both Owens and Etheredge deny he was depressed. "I don't think I'd be here if I took 35 pills," he told reporters. As for Etheredge telling paramedics that he was "depressed"? Didn't happen, she told reporters. And Owens telling the paramedics he had tried to harm himself? Well, he said, "I wasn't as coherent as they thought I was." He denied reports that he had had his stomach pumped. "Terrell has 25 million reasons to be alive," said Etheredge, referring to his Cowboys' paycheck...
...prescription - for 40 pills - after surgery on Sept. 18, but had taken only 5 to date, she told police. Owens, interviewed by police as he was in the ambulance, told them he had taken the remainder of his medication and said "yes" when asked if he was attempting to harm himself, according to the report...
...have a difficult task in deciding what counts as news. On the one hand is the journalistic pursuit of truth; on the other is the paper’s chronicling role within the community. In Duque’s case, it seems newspapers may have done more harm than good...
Instead of relying on a default “print” option, newspapers need to think. The community’s benefit from reporting a student’s name, or exercising free speech for its own sake, does not always supersede the harm it does to the individual. Too much truth can be a decidedly bad thing, and blindly printing students’ names is a naïve way of avoiding a complex moral decision...
...know that there are risks. The biggest of those, namely, is the risk of addiction. Ed Looney, executive director of the Council of Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, says that as a rule of thumb, 80% of kids who start gambling will just dabble in it with no further harm, 15% will have some signs of problem gambling (playing past their budget, lying about losses), and 5% will become truly addicted...