Illegal Activity
More Bad Drug News in the NFL
Thursday, June 5th, 2008According to ESPN.com, a convicted steroids dealer who recently met with NFL security officials and gave them names of players he said bought steroids from him was found dead in his home in Plano, Texas on June 5.
Plano police made a welfare check and found 35-year-old David Jacobs and 30-year-old Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell dead. Both [...]
Drugstore Cowboys
Monday, June 2nd, 2008Drugstore cowboy video
I was just thinking about the movie Drugstore Cowboy the other day. It’s one of my favorites, and I think it was a little ahead of its time. It was made in 1989, and while pharmacy robberies have been going on since the first pharmacy opened its doors, they probably weren’t as [...]
Dangerous Trades
Saturday, May 31st, 2008A recent post on the blog DestinationRX draws attention to the fact that students as young as middle school are trading their prescription drugs for alcohol, or other prescription drugs. The post references an eFlux Media article that details how 15 students at a Boulder, Colorado middle school were busted for a trading scam that [...]
What hydrocodone order?
Monday, May 5th, 2008On May 3, the Maryland-based prescription drug distributor McKesson Corp. announced that it had agreed to pay $13 million in civil fines in order to settle allegations that it had sold 3 million units of hydrocodone to NewCare Pharmacy in East Baltimore and large quantities of phentermine-based products to Smeeta Pharmacy in Highland.
The owners of [...]
Going Robo
Monday, April 28th, 2008Our society loves over-the-counter (OTC) drugs almost as much as it loves prescription meds. Bored teens and adults have been known to down a bottle of Ny-Quil or Robitussin just to attain a loopy, cough medicine high. There are even entire message boards devoted solely to discussion of how to best achieve the “robo” high [...]