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Broward County sheriff Al Lamberti says he isn't sure why his jurisdiction has become the hotbed. "There's no reasonable explanation," he says. "It seems like it's just happened. I don't know why. Maybe we have better beaches, I don't know." (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...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...
...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." But it's like walking a tightrope, he adds: "It's a delicate balance here. You want to stop the pill mills. At the same time, you don't want to stop legitimate patients from getting pain management." (See how people get addicted...
...prescribed. "I'd rather not say, but it's helping me," he says. "I'm not a junkie." The medicine allows him to keep working as an excavator, he says. "They help people that can't get medication that they need," he says. "Thank God there are places like this." Though he agrees that some people take advantage of the clinics, efforts to shut them down are misguided, he says, and pain medication is essential. "It's everybody's constitutional right...
...coincidence that the Dai, an ethnic minority concentrated in southwestern China's Yunnan province, ring in their New Year in mid-April by sprinkling each other with cold water. April is the driest month for subtropical regions like Yunnan, which depend on the coming of seasonal rains for their fertility. Historically, water-splashing has been a symbolic way of beseeching the divine to bring an end to scarcity and hasten a period of abundance. Never have the people of South China needed that abundance more than now, during the worst drought the area has seen in nearly a century...