At age 19, I was just one year into my military service when I was tasked, along with about a dozen guys my age, with pulling all of the food supplies off the USS Midway (CV-41) and restocking them onboard the ancient troop carrier from the 1930s that we would live on while the Midway […]
painkillers
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The fight against opioids continues
State agencies and nonprofit groups focus on preventing overdose deaths and safely disposing of painkillers.
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420: People with substance abuse challenges benefit from new treatment protocol
Oklahoma is fighting addiction and substance abuse with treatment options and helpful organizations.
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420: Data shows marijuana isn’t Oklahoma’s problem drug
Though marijuana is a hot topic in Oklahoma, the state’s most dangerous drugs aren’t necessarily found on the street.
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Ease the pain
Dr. Hal Vorse Credit: Mark Hancock In 2009, 83 percent of drug overdose deaths in Oklahoma were attributed to prescription drugs as compared to 17 percent of the overdoses related to street drugs. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 1.2 million emergency room visits in Oklahoma that year were related to […]
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Basic instinct
How could it not? A recently widowed 18-year-old mother in Blanchard shot a man dead after he broke into her house. On New Year’s Eve, Sarah McKinley called 911 after a Blanchard man, Justin Shane Martin, allegedly tried breaking down the front door. McKinley, who was in the trailer home with her 3-month-old son, had […]
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Bitter pills
The one-page report listed five painkillers — oxymorphone, morphine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone and oxycodone — and the anti-anxiety medication alprazolam as causing “probable mixed drug toxicity,” which led to central nervous system depression, pulmonary edema and aspiration pneumonia. “The chemicals found in his system were not those that had been prescribed by a physician, and we […]
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Death of a Sooner
Burleson said Box just smiled at the joke. “I am hurting,” Box told him. Burleson, a self-described “friend of the family,” relayed the anecdote at Box’s memorial service May 27 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Enid, where he serves as senior pastor. “I know that some of you have heard or read about his prescription […]