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OxyContin

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    Scripps Scientists Get $3 Million to Develop Less Brutal Pain Drugs

    ​Researchers at the Jupiter campus of the Scripps Research Institute might have some new tricks for treating pain that aren't accompanied by the nasty side effects associated with drugs like OxyContin.The National Institute on Drug Abuse awarded a team of Scripps researchers more than $3 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    Medical Marijuana Resolution Now in Both Chambers of Florida Legislature

    ​​​Resolutions to let voters decide on an amendment to the Florida Constitution to legalize medical marijuana have now been proposed in both chambers of the Legislature.Miami Democratic Sen. Larcenia Bullard dropped Senate Joint Resolution 1028 in the hopper on Friday, becoming the Senate side ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    New OxyContin Pills Are Cheaper on the Street, but Good Luck Getting Them Up Your Nose

    Seattle Weekly​Florida residents probably know there are plenty of ways to buy prescription OxyContin over a counter. But for those bent on acquiring pills in the most shady way possible, they're still available from street dealers. Those street pills are getting cheaper -- thanks to a new fo ... More >>

  • News

    August 25, 2011

    Jason Villano: Pill Mill Crackdown's Unjust Victim

    Seattle Weekly​Florida residents probably know there are plenty of ways to buy prescription OxyContin over a counter. But for those bent on acquiring pills in the most shady way possible, they're still available from street dealers. Those street pills are getting cheaper -- thanks to a new fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Dear Women of Florida: Trust Rick Scott on Abortion. He Knows Best

    Sorry ladies, I don't trust you.​Dear Women of Florida,As your governor, I feel obliged to write/tweet/robo-call you individually to explain the new law I signed requiring you to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion.First, I must admit that I've never had an ultrasound myself. No, I've ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    House "Pill Mill" Bill Blocks Major Funding for Database

    ​After Gov. Rick Scott reluctantly withdrew his opposition to a prescription drug tracking system, a House committee dropped the proposed repeal last week, and restored the database into its legislation aimed combating prescription drug abuse. By a vote of 116-1, the Florida House passed that bill ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Increasing Numbers of Newborns Are Born Addicted to Pain Pills

    via Damon Winter/The New York TimesA nurse administers methodone to a newborn, 4 weeks old.​This week, the New York Times called attention to a largely overlooked demographic of pain pill addicts -- newborn babies. The Times reports that as pain pill abuse "ravages communities across the country," ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Revised 'Pill Mill' Bill Approved By House Committee

    ​So much for the governor's pill mill "strike force." Florida just may get a prescription drug-monitoring program after all.  Today, the House Appropriations Committee approved a revised bill, (HB 7095), that scraps Gov. Rick Scott's proposal to repeal the drug tracking system, which also rec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    UPDATED: BSO Sgt., Wife, Hit With Oxy Trafficking Charges

    Associated Press Wild Art: Rick Scott's omnipresent security guards (in what one reader called "Blackwater-style" beige vests) couldn't protect him from the catcalls and boos hurled at him by the crowd at this parade in Tallahassee.UPDATED: The pill mill problem in Broward County may have ju ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    WTFlorida: 10 Reasons Why Florida is Better at Everything

    Miche Ratto​Here in Florida we're really good at a lot of things. Topping the list we have: growing indoor marijuana, staging car accidents, and throwing children in jail. And boy are we good at all of those things.To learn more about the awesome state you live in click the image.

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    The OxyContin Ice Cream Truck

    Ice Cream of Doom.​Don't feel bad about Florida's reputation as the pill-pushing capitol of the world. We, at least, push our pills from clinics housed in nondescript gray buildings, none of which are likely to attract throngs of screaming children. Not so in New York City. There, they sell narcot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2011

    Popular West Palm Beach Art Event Showtel on Hiatus During Search for New Venue

    Photo by Eric BartonThe Oxy room at last year's Showtel.​Every spring for the past eight years, Hotel Biba in West Palm Beach would lend out a couple of dozen of its rooms for Showtel, one of South Florida's best art events. Over the course of a weekend, about 2,000 people would pop in and out of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Young Broward County Pill Addicts With No Memory of AIDS Epidemic Now Shooting Up

    ​While Gov. Rick Scott seems like the biggest obstacle in front of the prescription drug problem that kills seven Floridians a day, a new trend has emerged among young addicts. Users in their 20s increasingly prefer to crush pills and inject their fix, according to a report from Jim Hall, director ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Florida's Pill Mill Problem So Bad That Oxy Maker Agrees to Pay to Have Pills Tracked

    ​The drug company that makes OxyContin seems more concerned about Florida's drug epidemic than the governor. First, the manufacturer began reformulating its pill to prevent snorting or shooting the drug. Now, the company, Purdue Pharma, has offered $1 million to help fund Florida's prescription dr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    Say Goodbye to Broward County and Hello to BroCo, Bro

    Welcome to BroCo, bro.​What's in a name? For some people, a whole lotta nothing. Take, for example, musicians Marshall Mathers and Elgin Lumpkin. They weren't marketable with the name mom gave 'em, so they upgraded to Eminem and Ginuwine. Likewise, Broward County commissioners and the Sun-Sentinel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Gov. Rick Scott Sure Seems Like He Wants Pill Mills to Stay Open

    Rick Scott, back from his deposition days.​Since his inauguration in January, new Florida Gov. Rick Scott has looked a lot like an Oxycontin addict.Twice now, Scott has come out in opposition to tough rules that would crack down on the South Florida pill mills that dispense pain pills like Pez. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    Pain Clinic Lobby Criticizes Palm Beach Post

    ​The Florida Society of Pain Management Providers, the largest pain-clinic-supported lobbying organization in the state, has harshly criticized two recent articles in the Palm Beach Post, claiming the paper printed erroneous statistics about pain clinics in Palm Beach County, even after being noti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Dave Aronberg, Pam Bondi's New Pick to Fight Pill Mills, Has His Work Cut Out for Him

    Disarming pain clinics with a single smile.​Now that Rick Scott has nixed the state Office of Drug Control, which was instrumental in getting anti-pill-mill legislation passed, the duty to try to curb the illegal pill-mill industry falls on whoever will take it.Enter Pam Bondi, your new Republican ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    Bruce Grant, Drug Czar to be Sacked by Rick Scott, is Concerned about Pill Mill Enforcement (Updated)

    ​Bruce D. Grant is the director of the governor's Office of Drug Control, and he found out by e-mail last month that Rick Scott's transition team had decided to eliminate his four-person office to save half a million dollars a year. Meanwhile, the state is still struggling to finalize the Prescrip ... More >>

  • News

    December 30, 2010

    The Dirty Dozen: 2010's Most Despicable People

    ​Bruce D. Grant is the director of the governor's Office of Drug Control, and he found out by e-mail last month that Rick Scott's transition team had decided to eliminate his four-person office to save half a million dollars a year. Meanwhile, the state is still struggling to finalize the Prescrip ... More >>

  • News

    November 18, 2010

    A Hallucinogen Called Ibogaine Has Helped Addicts Kick Heroin, Meth, and Everything in Between. Is it the Trip That Does the Trick?

    ​Bruce D. Grant is the director of the governor's Office of Drug Control, and he found out by e-mail last month that Rick Scott's transition team had decided to eliminate his four-person office to save half a million dollars a year. Meanwhile, the state is still struggling to finalize the Prescrip ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Fort Lauderdale "Pill Alley" Gets a Visit From Knoxville TV Station

    The Knoxville station reports from "pill alley."​There's a stretch of Andrews Avenue near Commercial Boulevard that Fort Lauderdale tourism officials probably would rather out-of-towners skip. It's exactly where a Knoxville TV station visited recently for a report this week titled "Aboard the Oxyc ... More >>

  • Film

    September 16, 2010

    "The Town" Puts Ben Affleck in His Bank Robber Role

    The Knoxville station reports from "pill alley."​There's a stretch of Andrews Avenue near Commercial Boulevard that Fort Lauderdale tourism officials probably would rather out-of-towners skip. It's exactly where a Knoxville TV station visited recently for a report this week titled "Aboard the Oxyc ... More >>

  • News

    September 9, 2010

    Richard Lippner Had Two Beautiful Young Women Die in His Apartment Four Months Apart

    The Knoxville station reports from "pill alley."​There's a stretch of Andrews Avenue near Commercial Boulevard that Fort Lauderdale tourism officials probably would rather out-of-towners skip. It's exactly where a Knoxville TV station visited recently for a report this week titled "Aboard the Oxyc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    What Killed Brianna Negron and Casey DiStefano?

    Casey and her mom at Disney World.​In May, paramedics were called to Richard Lippner's Fort Lauderdale condo, where they found a young woman, 20-year-old Casey DiStefano, unconscious on the floor. It was the second time this had happened in four months. She wasn't breathing; her lips were blue. ... More >>

  • News

    July 8, 2010

    Will a Multimillionaire Polo Mogul Be Punished for a Fatal Drunken Accident?

    Casey and her mom at Disney World.​In May, paramedics were called to Richard Lippner's Fort Lauderdale condo, where they found a young woman, 20-year-old Casey DiStefano, unconscious on the floor. It was the second time this had happened in four months. She wasn't breathing; her lips were blue. ... More >>

  • Music

    July 1, 2010

    Courtney Love Gets the Hole Band Back Together (Sorta)

    Casey and her mom at Disney World.​In May, paramedics were called to Richard Lippner's Fort Lauderdale condo, where they found a young woman, 20-year-old Casey DiStefano, unconscious on the floor. It was the second time this had happened in four months. She wasn't breathing; her lips were blue. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    Kentucky Police Struggle to Halt Pipeline of Pain Pills From South Florida

    ​Florida has given the rest of America so much over the years: delicious orange juice, great football players, cop dramas, a preposterous quantity of Disney paraphernalia, and more recently, the devastating social destruction of prescription pill addiction. Wayne Bird, chief of police in Williamsb ... More >>

  • News

    February 4, 2010

    New Times' Special Super Bowl Guide to Sex, Drugs, Gambling, and Living Large in South Florida

    ​Florida has given the rest of America so much over the years: delicious orange juice, great football players, cop dramas, a preposterous quantity of Disney paraphernalia, and more recently, the devastating social destruction of prescription pill addiction. Wayne Bird, chief of police in Williamsb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Vice Guide: Procuring Party Pills

    Everything that makes South Florida the Vice capital of the country--the drugs, the sex, the gambling--is amplified during the week of the Super Bowl. But nothing ruins the perfect party week like someone dying or going to jail. So this week we'll be presenting The Juice Vice Guide to South Florida. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    Pillbillies of Broward County Go Hollywood

    After a short ad, that's the trailer for "The Oxycontin Express," the first episode of this season's Vanguard. That's correspondent Mariana van Zeller boldly reporting from within Broward County, pain pill capital of the world. Aren't we just beaming with pride?The show airs on Current TV, the diy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Limbaugh Grants Rare Access to Silly Ideas, Contributes to Poop Problem in Palm Beach

    Rush Limbaugh granted a rare interview recently to a reporter from the London Telegraph, even giving Nigel Farndale access to his secret lair. Nigel reports that he went to a nondescript building 100 yards from the ocean that was fairly accessible and included no imperial stormtroopers:He calls it h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    MTV Reality Star Was Busted in West Palm by Undercover Cop Prostitute

    Sadly, no, it was not Whitney (left), nor her two co-stars but a member of The City supporting cast known as "Nevan," the understanding cousin of Whitney Olivia (seen above, mugging on the right). To the West Palm Beach police department he's James Nevan Donahue. In February 2007 West Palm officers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2008

    Morning Juice: Gay Pro Bowl Coming to Florida, Riviera Beach Outs Itself, West Palm Employees Like the Porn

    Pro Bowl Comes to South Florida, Possibly Kindling Gay AffairSouth Florida will host the NFL's Pro Bowl in 2010 and may also become home of the Gay Games. Somehow, inexplicably, these two stories haven't been linked by other media outlets. But it's clear to see that the Pro Bowl could stand as the c ... More >>

  • News

    February 14, 2008

    Bitter Pill

    Families say Hollywood doc is out of control

  • News

    November 1, 2007

    Letters for November 1-7, 2007

    Families say Hollywood doc is out of control

  • Music

    October 4, 2007

    Velvet Revolver Seeks Libertad

    Slash touts his new band as others celebrate the old one

  • News

    August 16, 2007

    Powerfall

    For David Lee Edwards, winning the lottery was a wild rocket ride

  • Music

    April 26, 2007

    Prodigy

    Return of the Mac (Koch)

  • News

    June 29, 2006

    Rush's Airport Boner

    Don't leave Santo Domingo without one.

  • News

    June 22, 2006

    Rush's Airport Boner

    Don't leave Santo Domingo without one.

  • Music

    April 6, 2006

    Mang's Best Friend

    After 22 years, Ween is still keepin' it brown.

  • News

    November 3, 2005

    A Constant State of Rage

    In Delray Beach, cops have a remarkable history of shooting black suspects — with impunity

  • News

    June 16, 2005

    Cop, Judge, and Jury

    When Hollywood lawman Pete Salvo allegedly covered up a crime, Internal Affairs looked the other way

  • News

    March 10, 2005

    ELVIS LIVES!

    And South Florida's Tabloid Valley vanishes.

  • Music

    March 3, 2005

    Words of Wu-dom

    Haven't had enough Wu-Tang merchandise? Now there's a book.

  • News

    November 25, 2004

    Hellooo! It's time!

    Got a fallin' feeling?

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    A Christmas Confession

    Columnist repents, vows to stop killing Christian fundamentalists

  • Music

    July 4, 2002

    'Chunk Style

    Superchunk chases the clouds away, and a strange new "Seasons in the Sun"

  • News

    May 10, 2001

    Dead Drugged

    After OxyContin killed Stevie Steiner, his half brother lied to the cops. Was it an honest mistake?

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