Methadone (drug)

Review: 'Arrested Development' makes a joyous return

2013-05-26 18:55:00

At one minute past midnight, Sunday, May 26, the 15 episodes of “Arrested Development,” season 4 dropped, all at once, upon the battlefield of popular culture. If nothing else, this brings an end to all those articles wondering what the series...

Alleged O.C. drug dealer charged with murder in overdose death

2013-04-18 13:32:00

An alleged Mission Viejo drug dealer is scheduled to be arraigned Friday on a charge of murder in the death of a 21-year-old woman by providing her with a lethal dose of drugs and then refusing to take her to the hospital after she lost consciousness....

Fatal drug overdoses in U.S. increase for 11th consecutive year

2013-02-19 13:00:00

Fatal drug overdoses have increased for the 11th consecutive year in the United States, new data show. According to a research letter published Tuesday from the National Center for Health Statistics, 38,329 people died of drug overdoses in the United...

Movie producer arrested after his Corvette crashed

2013-01-25 07:44:27

Iran wages its own war against drugs

2012-10-13 16:23:39

Chorus of voices grows stronger for 'death with dignity'

2012-12-18 17:48:00

The bullet that Larry Robert Broman used to kill himself went clean through his head and into the wall. No one had expected him to do it. Not his ex-wife, who had remained close to him. And not their two grown daughters. It happened early on the...

Legal drugs, deadly outcomes

2012-11-11 00:00:00

Terry Smith collapsed face-down in a pool of his own vomit. Lynn Blunt snored loudly as her lungs slowly filled with fluid. Summer Ann Burdette was midway through a pear when she stopped breathing. Larry Carmichael knocked over a lamp as he fell...

LAX passenger arriving from Iran hid opium in rice cooker, feds say

2012-06-22 16:35:50

Fewer than one in five get treatment for drug problems, U.N. says

2012-06-26 15:16:13

Pop music review: KIIS-FM’s dance-heavy Jingle Ball

2011-12-04 21:36:07

Album review: Kronos Quartet: Music of Vladimir Martynov

2012-02-10 10:54:34

Deaths linked to doctor accused of recklessly prescribing painkillers

2011-10-05 00:00:00

As California's top prescriber of narcotic painkillers and other commonly abused drugs, Dr. Nazar Al Bussam made hundreds of thousands of dollars feeding the addictions of strung-out patients who packed into his offices in Downey and Los Angeles,...

Deputy Joel Rivero and Deputy Paul Yesbeck (not pictured) helped a woman who had ingested methadone.

2013-06-13 00:00:00

Sabrina Lumpkin holds a picture of her ex-husband who died of an overdose on January 4, 2013 at age 34. Sabrina Lumpkin said the picture was taken about six years ago

2013-03-28 00:00:00

For punk rockers who continued to pay attention even after Kurt Cobain died and who still populate shows by Pennywise, MxPx and Alkaline Trio, Chicago's Screeching Weasel ought to be lionized as heroes, or at least jesters.

2012-12-27 13:11:00