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This isn't the carefully calibrated dose of methamphetamine dispensed by pharmacists in pill form. This is crank--smoked, snorted or injected--and it makes people live like coyotes, says a cop standing outside a south-side Billings bungalow while agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration toss the place for drugs. "This town is coming unhinged," another cop says. As if to prove their point, the suspected crank house whose street-side picture windows are sheathed with tinfoil (sunlight is the cranker's natural enemy) starts belching evidence of criminal lunacy--hypodermic needles clogged with meth, automatic pistols of several...
Just last week Roche Laboratories pulled its high-blood-pressure pill Posicor from the market because of potentially fatal interactions with 26 other medications, including such common cholesterol drugs as Mevacor and Zocor. If you are taking Posicor, however, don't just stop it on your own. Ask your doctor for a substitute prescription to keep your blood pressure safely under control...
...emergencies. Fill all your prescriptions at the same pharmacy, preferably one that has a computerized system for flagging potential problems. And make sure you take only medications that are absolutely necessary. A change in diet or exercise can, in many cases, work just as well as yet another pill...
...direct evidence of that or of how much longer. It might turn out that I'd spend a lot of money and suffer side effects in order to add a few months to my life. And if I could lower my cholesterol just by popping a pill, I might be tempted to order that bacon cheeseburger and to sleep in rather than exercise before work, thus negating the drug's benefits...
...Merck will be doing further studies to see if people like me would be wise to start taking preventive lovastatin. But for now, I think I'll try to run an extra mile or two each week and cut more saturated fat from my diet. A pill may be easier, but I'd just as soon avoid...