Doctors consider using street drugs to ease suffering of dying patients

Recent studies at Harvard, U.C.L.A. and John Hopkins have now made it plain that doctors should—as soon as proper safeguards can be put in place—be free to offer illicit drugs to patients who are terminally ill, in order to ease their emotional suffering and potentially offer them new perspectives—fueled by drug-induced insights—into issues like their own mortality

Area police departments sponsor drug take back day

Police departments and senior centers around the region participated in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day this Saturday, offering residents a change to dispose of expired or unwanted prescription drugs that can’t be flushed or thrown in the trash.

Medicine cabinet cleanout encouraged

It's time to look in medicine cabinets, round up unused or expired prescription drugs and turn them in to authorities, no questions asked.