Entertainer Michael Barrymore admits possession of cocaine after police in London approached his car and later found the drug in his pocket.
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Barrymore admits cocaine charge
The agency said the drug “has not been shown to be safe and effective” for breast cancer patients, but would remain available for treating other types of cancer.
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F.D.A. Revokes Approval of Avastin as Breast Cancer Drug
The US state of Virginia is set to execute a convicted murderer by a lethal injection over strident objections from the drug’s manufacturer.
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Execution on amid death drug row
An inquest into the death of a 20-year-old man from Larne has heard he had an exceptionally high level of the drug mephedrone in his body.
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Mephedrone blamed for man’s death
The archive of the drug guru Timothy Leary includes accounts of Allen Ginsburg’s and Jack Kerouac’s experiments with psilocybin.
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New York Public Library Buys Timothy Leary’s Papers
The deal is Endo Pharmaceuticals’ third in 12 months, and will add to the drug maker’s urology and pain treatments.
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DealBook: Endo to Buy American Medical for $2.9 Billion
As Mexicans march in protest at the drug violence sweeping the nation, at least 59 bodies are found in a mass grave near the US border.
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Bodies found as Mexicans protest
As Mexicans march in protest at the drug violence sweeping the nation, at least 59 bodies are found in a mass grave near the US border.
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Bodies found as Mexicans protest
As Mexicans march in protest at the drug violence sweeping the nation, more than 40 bodies are found in a mass grave near the US border.
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Mexicans march against violence
Supplies of heroin are drying up in the UK, intelligence from the Serious Organised Crime Agency shows, leading to users diluting the drug with other substances.
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Dramatic drop in heroin in the UK
Patient trials of a new drug for skin cancer have shown that the drug slows the spread of skin cancer in half of all patients with advanced malignant melanoma.
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Pill slows spread of skin cancer
A coroner says he hopes the hanging of a “happy and carefree” teenager shows the “evils” of the drug mephedrone.
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‘Evil’ drug warning follows death
The government would be “utterly irresponsible” if it did not crack down on the abuse of alcohol in response to a new study that claims the drug is more harmful than heroin, a Lib Dem peer has said.
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Alcohol abuse ‘more harmful than heroin’
The government would be “utterly irresponsible” if it did not crack down on the abuse of alcohol in response to a new study that claims the drug is more harmful than heroin, a Lib Dem peer has said.
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Alcohol abuse ‘more harmful than heroin’
Pfizer is recalling an additional 38,000 bottles of the cholesterol-fighting drug Lipitor after reports of an odor linked to the packaging bottles, the drug company said in a statement.
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More smelly bottles of Lipitor recalled
