An Addict and a Widow With a Lot of Pain to Heal
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âThings We Lost in the Fireâ bends over backward to prove that serious American movies can hold their own with the best films from overseas.
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The sight of a sobbing orphan stranded in a landscape of death and disaster moves people deeply.
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The 97-year-old widow of a New Zealand soldier who led a dramatic escape from Nazi-occupied Greece was overcome with emotion yesterday when she came face to face with the man who, as a boy, helped her husband ...
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For people with chronic pain, relief comes with a tradeoff.
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A self-described drug addict stood by a vacant lot on the city&#039;s South Side and pointed down the block. There, he says, more than a dozen of his friends and acquaintances died after using heroin laced with a strong painkiller.
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WASHINGTON -- As a primary human drive, not even the pursuit of prolonged pleasure can compete with the avoidance of pain. That is why the sudden emergence of the painkiller issue strikes home to so many who
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By helping children abroad, an American couple sought to create a legacy for their son, who died of a heart ailment.
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Like millions of arthritis sufferers, she was a long-time user of Vioxx, the popular painkiller that was pulled from the market two weeks ago because of an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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Two months ago, Jennifer was at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center suffering with a skin infection while her husband, Jerry, was across the river at Pekin Hospital suffering from chest pains.
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A bereaved widow's story about her husband being devoured by a boa constrictor made headlines in Paraguay on Thursday, but it turned out to be a tall tale by a woman who felt abandoned.
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Every Wednesday the men come to see Gary Isler. Like him, they are recovering addicts and ex-convicts. Unlike him, they are living with "the sauce," "the alphabets." HIV.
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Larry, a 53-year-old heroin addict, has two cardinal rules: Never shoot up alone, and shoot up only one person at a time. If one overdoses, &quot;you need someone there to bring you back,&quot; he said.
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The toll of chronic pain is physical, emotional and, often, economic.
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When one child grapples with a life-changing diagnosis or accident, the pain is also felt by siblings.
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It&#39;s been a traumatic year and a half for Terry Kennedy and his fiancÃ©e, Dawn Marie Wilson, who was recently released from a Mexican prison.
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Larry, a 53-year-old heroin addict, has two cardinal rules: Never shoot up alone, and shoot up only one person at a time. If one overdoses, &quot;you need someone there to bring you back,&quot; he said. Larry, who asked that his last name not be used because of his habit, recited his rules after hearing that a mixture of heroin and a powerful painkiller has been killing users who believe they are taking heroin alone.