Word: heroinism
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That's not how DEA administrator Karen Tandy sees it. "Dr. Hurwitz was no different from a cocaine or heroin dealer peddling poison on the street corner," she told reporters after his sentencing. Prosecutors said Hurwitz prescribed "obscene" amounts of medicine to patients he knew were addicted to cocaine and other drugs. As for the DEA's other investigations and prosecutions, "We're not on a witch hunt," Tandy told TIME. "We are very careful in our investigations. More than 600,000 doctors are registered to prescribe controlled substances. There are a very small number of bad apples." Her agency...
...available in the U.S. until the public, alarmed by the growing number of addicts, called for strict anti-narcotics laws in the early 20th century. In the public mind, opioids such as morphine and laudanum, although they remained the most effective pain relievers, became associated with their illegal cousins--heroin and opium--and doctors often shied away from prescribing them...
...Burma's equally rugged border with China; some are former headhunters. The U.W.S.A. struck a cease-fire with the junta in 1989 in return for keeping the peace. It also kept its weapons and, free to run its home region as a semi-autonomous state, expanded its trade in heroin?the Wa hills are opium-growing territory?and later in methamphetamines. Today, the U.W.S.A. is one of Southeast Asia's largest drug-trafficking organizations, according to the U.S. Justice Department, which in January indicted eight senior Wa officials in absentia on narcotics charges. By forcing its impoverished people to migrate...
...provisions of California law that stipulate criminal responsibility for a death occurring as a result of a dangerous felony, in this case the supplying of narcotics. She was indicted after giving an interview to the National Enquirer in which she reportedly told of repeatedly injecting the comedian with a heroin-and-cocaine mixture known as a "speed-ball." The Enquirer quoted Smith as saying, "I killed John Belushi. I didn't mean to, but I am responsible." Said L.A. Deputy District Attorney Elden Fox: "She sold the story for $15,000, confessing to committing 14 felonies in the state...
...private detective sent to monitor her extramarital trysts, not to mention the mishaps of Daughter Mary Lea, who once charged that her second husband had a homosexual affair with their chauffeur and plotted her murder. Then there were publicized allegations about a grandson injecting the family dog with heroin, and his brother planning to blow up a police station...