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...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...
...Head" is slang for a frequent drug user...
...present, Harvard is the single largest user of pound dogs in the Boston area. Although over 85 per cent of the dogs used for research came from animal dealers, last year over 2000 of the almost 3000 dogs used for research at Harvard were pound dogs. If pound seizure is repealed, Harvard officials estimate the cost of breeding dogs at $100-$150 per animal...