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...what I mean, just look at some vice presidential quotes from the past. Most are real zingers. For example, Thomas Marshall said, "The vice president is like a man in a cataleptic state. He cannot speak; he cannot move; he suffers no pain; and yet he is perfectly conscious of everything going on about him." LBJ apparently agreed. "It's like being naked in the middle of a blizzard with no one to even offer you a match to keep you warm--that's the vice presidency," he said. Though many accounts confirm that LBJ frequently walked around the White...
...Hollywood to the heartland. According to the latest Department of Health and Human Services survey on drug abuse, about 1.5 million people started taking prescription painkillers for "nonmedical" purposes in 1998--nearly three times the number who started in 1990. "There are two reasons that people are abusing prescription pain medications," says David Rolston, a program director at Santa Monica's Clare Foundation rehab center. "They can be used as supplements to street opiates like heroin, and there isn't the same stigma associated with them...
Opioid painkillers, which include morphine and heroin as well as prescription products like Percocet, Percodan and Vicodin, are so dangerous because they are so seductive. They work by throwing up roadblocks all along the pain pathway from the nerve endings in the skin to the spinal cord to the brain. In the brain these drugs open the floodgates for the chemical dopamine, which triggers sensations of well-being. Dopamine rewires the brain to become accustomed to those benign feelings. When an addicted person stops taking the drug, the body craves the dopamine again...
From time to time, I have felt Dick Cheney's pain. We are both about the same age--I am some months older--and we both had our first heart attacks in our mid-30s. Over the years, we have been similarly inconvenienced by heart attacks. The elephant has stepped on his chest four times, and on mine twice. Cheney has had one multiple-bypass operation; I have had two of them. We have both had angioplasties, with stents. A couple of years ago, I drew ahead of Cheney in the fancy-therapy category by having DNA injected into...
Clinton said he felt our pain, but then he schmoozed with ultra-affluent Hollywood types, acquiesced to the whims of big donors, took things from the White House and retired to extravagant, upper-crust digs. Bill and Hillary Clinton are the American version of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. LINDA A. BIELINSKI Bartlett...