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Is raunchy R-rated 'Ted' really America's favorite family film?
When I was with a group of parents earlier this week, watching our kids play in a 14-and-under baseball tournament, I asked them how many of the boys—aged 13 and 14--had gone to see the R-rated movie “Ted.” The answer: Just about all...
Tags: Recreational Substance Use, Seth Rogen, Adam Sandler, Entertainment, Twitter, Inc.
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Britney Spears Hooked On Drugs In 2007, Former Confidante Testifies
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop starBritney Spears' former confidante encouraged her to kick her drug habit five years ago, and brought drug-sniffingdogs to her Malibu home and flushed a bag of white powder down the toilet, he testified Tuesday. "She had...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Recreational Substance Use, Britney Spears
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Weight loss surgery tied to increase in drinking
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who had weight loss surgery reported greater alcohol use two years after their procedures than in the weeks beforehand, in a new study. "This is perhaps a risk. I don't think it should deter people from having surgery,...Tags: Health, Medical Procedures and Tests, Body Mass Index, Roosevelt, Weight
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Glued Toddler Mom Gets 99 Years in Brutal Attack on Daughter
KTLA NewsDALLAS, TX (KTLA) -- A mother of five who plead guilty to gluing her toddler's hands to a wall and beating her into a coma was sentenced to 99 years in prison Friday. Elizabeth Escalona, 23, pleaded guilty in July to injury to a child for brutally...Tags: Prisons, Lifestyle and Leisure, Justice System, Recreational Substance Use, Trials
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Alaskans Turn In 1,838 Pounds of Unused Prescription Medication
Channel 2 NewsAlaskans turned in 1,838 pounds of prescription medication during the fifth Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) National Prescription Take-Back event on September 29. Rates of prescription drug use in the U.S. are alarmingly high. More Americans...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Lifestyle and Leisure, Recreational Substance Use, Drugs and Medicines, Prescription Drugs
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Our View: Teen prescription drug abuse hits home
Most of us have seen the commercials warning parents and other adult family members to safeguard their prescription medications from teenagers. Those warnings hit home this week when eight Imperial County teens in two cities and two separate cases...Tags: Recreational Substance Use, Substance Abuse, Drugs and Medicines, Social Sciences, Behavioral Conditions
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Community concerned about drug use
Friends and family members of a recently deceased, drug-addicted teen who attended Huntington Beach High School urged the City Council on Monday to work with schools in combating drug use among youths. "You guys have to do something about it," said an...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Recreational Substance Use, Heroin, Prescription Drugs
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Police collecting unwanted, unused prescription drugs
Staff reporterPrescription drug use is skyrocketing in the U.S. with millions illegally or improperly using the drugs. Tomorrow is an opportunity to clean out those unused drugs from the medicine cabinets at home and make everyone a little safer. Over the past decade,...Tags: Drug Trafficking, Lifestyle and Leisure, Recreational Substance Use, Heroin, PlayStation Portable
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DEA blocks controlled-substance distribution at Florida Walgreens facility
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Friday banned a Walgreens distribution center in Jupiter from dispensing controlled substances to its pharmacies in Florida and the East Coast, saying the business constituted an "imminent danger" to the public....
Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Pharmaceuticals, Pain, Lifestyle and Leisure, Recreational Substance Use
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Fewer than one in five get treatment for drug problems, U.N. says
World NowTo help every person on the globe struggling with drugs, more than $200 billion would be needed -- far more than the world actually spends, the United Nations announced Tuesday in a new report.... -
Marijuana smoking tied to testicular cancer: study
Reuters(Reuters) - Young men who had smoked marijuana recreationally were twice as likely to be diagnosed with testicular cancer than men who have never used marijuana, according to a U.S. study. Researchers whose findings appeared in the journal Cancer said...Tags: Cancer, Marijuana Use, Lifestyle and Leisure, Recreational Substance Use, American Cancer Society
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Baby boomers unknowingly infected with hepatitis C
When Alan Shackelford's ankles would swell up, he brushed it off as another sign of getting older — only to find out it was a symptom of something much worse.
The 59-year-old Windsor Mill man was shocked when his doctor recently diagnosed him...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Liver Disease, Recreational Substance Use, Hepatitis, Windsor Mill
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