Palm Beach Post A Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office detective spent months investigating a West Palm Beach pediatrician who is accused of dispensing addictive drugs as though they were lollipops. A grand jury has indicted Sergio R. Rodriguez on 18 charges including first-degree murder for the deaths of three men who overdosed on the pills [...]

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In 16 states and counting, drugs now kill more people than auto accidents do, the government said Wednesday. Experts said the startling shift reflects two opposite trends: Driving is becoming safer, and the legal and illegal use of powerful prescription painkillers is on the rise. For decades, traffic accidents have been the biggest cause of [...]

In 2008, over 300 drug overdose deaths were reported to Palm Beach County Florida law enforcement authorities. In approximately 85% of these tragic cases, the victim’s body was found to contain more than one commonly abused drug. Frequently, a variety of illicit substances (Heroin and Cocaine) and prescription drugs (Methadone, Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, Alprazolam) were the direct [...]

  WASHINGTON, May 10 /PRNewswire/ — The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration today unveiled findings from its new Drug Abuse Warning Network showing almost 2 million drug-related emergency department visits in 2004. Of these, nearly 1.3 million emergency department visits were associated with drug misuse or abuse.     The data show that 30 [...]

By ANDREW MARRA and ELIOT KLEINBERG Palm Beach Post Staff Writers Thursday, August 27, 2009 ROYAL PALM BEACH — Palm Beach County sheriff’s investigators rounded up another batch of “doctor shoppers” this morning in their ongoing battle against prescription drug abuse, and Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said he will start zeroing in on the doctors themselves. [...]

Thank you Lord, you let me have her one more day. She’s so beautiful. Why does she want to do this to herself?

You wonder where your child is. Is she getting high? Who is she with? Do they care enough to call 911 if she stops breathing? Will she know I love her? Dear God just please let her wake up tomorrow.