Word: oxycontin
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...Aloft follows Jerry through his daily rounds and bemused reminiscences, you're gently lulled into a sense of suburban security by his good-humored apercus, until--bam!--the scariness of life surges into view like water from a ruptured main: a miserable ex-girlfriend pops a fistful of OxyContin, or someone chokes on a turkey bone, or a memory surfaces unbidden of a cop bringing Daisy home in the middle of the night because she has been prowling the elementary school playground naked but for a pair of white Keds...
...where it seemed like a simply terrific idea--terrific!--to get a tattoo, cut off her hair and convert to Judaism, preferably Orthodox, though not before heading to Mexico with that muscular ex-con from the tattoo parlor. Which is how she ends up in Tijuana, knocked silly on OxyContin and slumped in a pool of her own vomit. The Best Awful (Simon & Schuster; 269 pages) can be a very funny book, but generally the laughs come hard...
...anyone to break a federal law, but I do wonder whether there are any medical risks in buying drugs online. It depends, it seems, on what sort of drugs you buy. The FDA has started cracking down hard--as it should--on companies that sell narcotics like Percocet and OxyContin on the Web. And the agency has been conducting spot checks on pills shipped from overseas that have not been approved for use in the U.S. Some drugs sent from Canada also may not pass FDA muster, according to Mary Wiktorowicz of York University's School of Health Policy...
...principle: winning. You fight to prove you can. To command deference. To convince people they're better off messing with the other guy's icons. For that matter, 'fess up, liberals: Were you truly offended that Rush Limbaugh made himself a bad role model and hypocrite by abusing OxyContin--or were you just happy that one of the other guys went down...
...investing public is less fearful now than at virtually any other point over the past five years. Recently, the VIX stood at 16, down from 50 when the rally began in October 2002. The last time investors were this fearless was in August 2000. And margin loans--the OxyContin of day-trading junkies--are up 16% this year...