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Amy Winehouse family pleads for "privacy and space"

The family of Amy Winehouse sought "privacy" from the public eye on Sunday, one day after the young, beehive-haired soul singer's untimely death, which sent fans rushing to download her songs in remembrance.
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Marijuana Field

Why DEA is Against Legalizing Smoked Marijuana

As the clamor for legalizing marijuana peaks in US, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) remains adamant on its stand that smoked marijuana is harmful. Since the prescription medicine Marinol, which is a synthetic form of Delta-9-THC, the chemical found in smoked marijuana that treats distressing symptoms, is available for the medical consumption, DEA believes that legalizing smoked marijuana will only lead to misuse.
Police seizes heroin shipment

Potential Vaccine for Heroin Addiction: Study

A study in ACS' Journal of Medicinal Chemistry revealed that scientists have developed an essential ingredient for a heroin vaccine to help individuals battling addiction.Kim D. Janda said that heroin use costs the US more than $22 billion in 1996 due to medical and law enforcement expenses and loss of productivity.
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Betty Ford Clinic Helped Celebrities Clean up Their Acts [PHOTOS]

On the day of Betty Ford's funeral, celebrities are among those reflecting on the help they received from treatment at the Betty Ford Center.The wife of the late President Gerald Ford and founder of the famed drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic bearing her name died on Friday at age 93.Betty Ford was the First Lady of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977. Her willingness to speak candidly about her personal battles with cancer and addiction helped to shatter longstand...
Obama And Clinton

Betty Ford Funeral Draws Dignitaries, Celebrities [PICTURES]

Michelle Obama, Maria Shriver and George W. Bush were among the dignitaries who paid tribute to Former First Lady Betty Ford at her funeral in Palm Desert today.The wife of the late President Gerald Ford and founder of the famed drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic bearing her name, died on Friday at age 93.Betty Ford was the First Lady of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977. Her willingness to speak candidly about her personal battles with cancer and addiction helped to...
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Will Google+ Threaten Facebook?

Google launched its social networking service called Google+ in its latest attempt to break into the social networking realm. While Facebook may have had a head start in the social networking model, but Google is poised to play catch up very soon.
U.S. Government Says No to Marijuana Reclassification

Medical Marijuana Has No Use, Leads to Addiction: US Government

The federal government said Friday that marijuana has no accepted medical use and should be considered armed and dangerous like heroin. Marijuana use was recently approved my many states including California to treat medical conditions including chronic pain.
Horrifying side effects of Krokodil

Real Life Horror: Mind-Altering Drug Made From Head-ache Tablets Eats Junkies

Krokodil or Crocodile in Russian is a homemade substitute of heroin, which is casting deathly shadows over the lives of thousands of Russia's drug addicts. It has a reptilian name because the users' skin starts developing crocodile-like unpleasant scales, over repeated use. And that is arguably the least this deadly drug can do to your body. The scales would give way to decaying sores and gray skin. The flesh would soon start to degenerate and would peel away leaving bones exposed....
Betty Ford is Dead at 93

First Lady Betty Ford Dead at 93

Betty Ford, the widow of late President Gerald Ford and a trailblazing co-founder of an addiction center in California that bears her name, has died at the age of 93, according to the director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum.

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