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Vic Chesnutt dies at 45; folk singer-songwriter
Vic Chesnutt, a singer-songwriter of spare, idiosyncratic folk songs tinged with melancholy, died Christmas Day in Athens, Ga., after taking an overdose of prescription muscle relaxants, a family spokesman said. He was 45.
Chesnutt had been admitted to...Tags: Music Industry, Disasters and Accidents, Folk (genre), Smashing Pumpkins (music group), Athens
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Prescriptions supplanting illegal substances as drugs of choice
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterA Riverside County psychiatrist who drove a Corvette and lived in a gated community allegedly wrote prescriptions in the lobby of his fitness club and outside restaurants for $100 each. More than $1 million was stashed in luggage at the house of an...Tags: FBI, Crimes, Trials, Anna Nicole Smith, Korean War (1950-1953)
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Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend, 2 doctors charged with feeding her prescription drug habit
The Associated PressAnna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend and a doctor surrendered to face charges that they conspired to provide the Playboy Playmate with thousands of prescription pills before her 2007 fatal overdose. A second doctor also is accused. Howard K. Stern...Tags: Crimes, Hotels and Accommodations, Celebrities and Bad Behavior, Death, Anna Nicole Smith
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Rx for Death: Patients in pain overdosing in alarming numbers
Sun-SentinelKathleen Mallon-Stones apartment was brimming with bottles of prescription drugs. She used them to fight unrelenting pain from a congenital back deformity and the surgeries she endured to try to cure it. When the drugs werent enough, she often curled...Tags: Port St. Lucie (St. Lucie, Florida), Nursing, Miami-Dade County, Vehicles, Polk County
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