Word: toxically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coping with toxic wastes...
...clients with pornographic films and prostitutes. More typical is the practice of distributing free drug samples to physicians, which the doctors then sell to patients for a profit. "It's the most effective incentive for overprescribing that I've seen," said Silverman. 'These people hand out toxic drugs as if they were popcorn...
...green vegetables. Both substances inhibit the formation of chemically induced cancers in laboratory tests; both are associated with lower cancer rates in human populations. The committee counseled against high-dose vitamin pills because of insufficient evidence about their health benefits. High doses of vitamin A, it added, can be toxic...
...CLEARER TOXIC-SHOCK VERDICT
Patricia Kehm, 25, a mother of two, started using Procter & Gamble's Rely tampons on Sept. 2, 1980. Four days later she was dead. Kehm was a victim of toxic-shock syndrome, which earlier in 1980 had been linked to superabsorbent tampons like Rely. Kehm's family sued Procter & Gamble, and last week in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, they won a jury award of $300,000. The only other Rely litigation to reach trial produced a baffling jury verdict March 19 in Denver: the company was found negligent, but the victim, who survived, won no money for her illness...