News
Clifton Adcock
A former Oklahoma City priest is accused of childhood sexual abuse by a parishioner.
Saturday 25 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: abuse
Alleged abuse
News
Clifton Adcock
A former Oklahoma City priest is accused of childhood sexual abuse by a parishioner.
‘Puppy mill abuse motivated by greed’
Letters to the Editor
Ranelle Newport
I would like to thank Oklahoma Gazette and staff writer Clifton Adcock for the Feb. 23 cover story “Pawing at profits” regarding puppy mills and, sadly, the efforts by Sen. Josh Brecheen, R-Coalgate, to repeal this law.
Church abuses
A Catholic sexual abuse report finds that gay priests are not to blame, instead focusing on the upheaval of the 1960s and ’70s.
Bar examination
University of Oklahoma students go to prison for the documentary ‘Women Behind Bars.’
Features
Emily Summars
Oklahoma ranks No. 1 in not only football, but for incarcerating females — 132 women per every 100,000 people in 2009. The national average is 68, according to a state Department of Corrections report.
Attitude adjustment
College students are buying, selling and giving away the prescription College students are buying, selling and giving away the prescription drug Adderall. Do they understand the ramifications of abuse?
News
Matt Carney
Editor’s note: Oklahoma Gazette interviewed eight local students about Adderall abuse. All feared arrest and requested anonymity, so names have been changed.
Ease the pain
Prescription drug abuse reaches epidemic proportions in Oklahoma.
News
Carmel Perez Snyder
Five years after being lauded for establishing one of the first Prescription Monitoring Programs in the nation, Oklahoma recently garnered another distinction. The state is second only to Alabama in the highest use of prescription painkillers, according to a pharmacy benefit-management firm called Express Scripts And painkiller abuse in the state is having lethal consequences.
The Imposter
Too good to be true, and yet ...
Documentary
Rod Lott
Although now I can’t remember the publication, I recall reading an article about con artist Frédéric Bourdin and thinking, “This would make a really good documentary.” A few years later, The Imposter is that documentary.
