Word: users
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late May, when he talked to Olive for the first time since the discrepancies had been discovered, he decided not to prosecute the former manager because of "concern for Olive's personal situation." Epps said he learned through discussion with the former manager that Olive was a "drug user," an allegation on which Olive refused to comment this week...
Although sources said this week they believe Olive sold cocaine during his tenure, Olive refused to comment on that charge; and Epps said he was unaware of the allegations. "My actions were based upon the assumption that he was simply a user and not a dealer, and if there had been evidence he had been trafficking then it would have become a disciplinary matter," Epps said...
...heroin is cheaper (about $50 to $70 for 20 grains) and stronger (up to 20% pure) than the brown Mexican heroin that it is rapidly replacing at street-corner markets. While cocaine, which comes primarily from South American coca leaves, gives the user an instant rush that lasts from three to six hours, the effects of heroin, a morphine derivative, are stronger and last for up to ten hours. Last week Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau warned a conference of the National Association of Citizens Crime Commissions that because the new heroin is so easily available, the East Coast...
...patient died even though the defibrillator worked faultlessly. The doctors shut down the device in a 16-year-old Pennsylvania boy because his heartbeat was so rapid that it triggered frequent shocks. The device is now being reprogrammed to accept the boy's quick pulse. The longest user is a 57-year-old California woman who, after six months with a defibrillator, is leading a normal life...
...idea seemed innocent enough; nonprescription over-the-counter drugs, which are generally less powerful, have long come with printed consumer information. But the FDA's proposal quickly brought a storm of controversy. Drug manufacturers are worried about legal repercussions should a drug user develop a rare side effect unmentioned in a PPI. Though the FDA figures that the cost of preparing, storing and distributing leaflets would add only an average of 6¼? to each prescription, professional groups reckon the extra tab at 22? to 35?. Pharmacists are afraid that the leaflets will provoke a rash of time-consuming...