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...novelist named, not coincidentally, Bret Easton Ellis. The fictional Bret has written the same novels the real one has. The fictional Bret cavorts with celebrities ("Jean-Michel Basquiat, Molly Ringwald, John McEnroe, Ronald Reagan Jr. ..."), has numerous affairs with both sexes and is perpetually strung out on coke, tequila, heroin, cosmopolitans and crystal meth. He even has a novelist pal named Jay McInerney. (According to Ellis, McInerney was not thrilled with his cameo appearance. "Really, out of all the s_____ things that have been written about him, this is the lowest? I guess he's very sensitive." McInerney could...
...wife is battling a recurrence of breast cancer, I have some advice for the DEA: be sure your far-flung investigative net snares real abusers, not just physicians whose patients, without treatment, are unable to live decently. In comparing a physician convicted of drug trafficking to a cocaine or heroin dealer, DEA administrator Karen Tandy sends a threatening message to physicians and patients alike. Unless rhetoric is followed up with a thoughtful and commonsense policy, it will be government run amuck. You can be sure that I and thousands of others will do what is necessary to get access...
...officer Valerie Plame's identity) has helped convict more than 20 city employees of taking bribes in exchange for contracts in the city's Hired Truck program, which doles out transportation work to private companies. When announcing the recent indictments, Fitzgerald, who has also charged that a heroin ring was operating out of a city water-filtration plant, said he hoped that his probe would shake a city hall "where people are being scored not on the merits but by whom they know or what clout they have." (His office refused last week to comment further...
...ordinary party--it's a pharming party, a get-together arranged while parents are out so the kids can barter for their favorite prescription drugs. Pharming parties--or just "pharming" (from pharmaceuticals)--represent a growing trend among teenage drug abusers. While use of illegal substances like speed, heroin and pot has declined over the past decade, according to a report issued three weeks ago by Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), abuse of prescription drugs has increased sharply. CASA says about 2.3 million kids ages 12 to 17 took legal medications illegally...
...million Number of Americans who abuse prescription drugs, according to a recent study?more than the combined total of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine users With bureau reports. Numbers Sources: Wall Street Journal; International Herald Tribune; A.P.; Guinness World Records...