| FDA warns about buying prescription meds on Web
Federal health officials say some Internet shoppers who thought they'd bought drugs such as sleep aids and antidepressants were instead shipped a powerful anti-psychotic. In some cases, the unwitting consumers wound up in emergency rooms. The Food and Drug Administration says a preliminary analysis indicates a number of people took a schizophrenia drug called haloperidol. Investigators say the pills were packaged in plain plastic bags and mailed in envelopes that had Greek postmarks. However, the buyers thought they'd gotten other pills, such as Ambien, a sleep aid, or Xanax, an anti-anxiety medication. The FDA says it has reports of several consumers seeking emergency treatment for symptoms such as breathing difficulties, muscle spasms and stiffness.
Dallas, I love you, but I've found Austin
I have always been a member of the Church of We-Have-to-Save-Downtown. Whatever that means. I sing in the choir. It's a lifelong expression of my profound wannabe urban cosmopolitology. A religion. Why? Obvious. Because downtown is...uh, well it's down. And it's...you know...town. Now all of a sudden I have doubts. We see all kinds of cosmopolite activity all around downtown in concentric rings, most of it developing without any help from and often in spite of City Hall. I'm talking about whole areas of the inner city that seem to want to burst up through the grime and redevelop on their own. So we have to pour billions into saving the embalmed, asbestos-filled towers of downtown why? A weekend ago I went on that annual gallery tour they do every year in the Cedars area just across the freeway south of downtown.
Troubled West Lake Worth teen turns around her life with program's ...
Spare Shiris Roque the lecture about idle hands and trouble. She has no time for it. Her work days begin every morning at 5 at a Dunkin' Donuts not far from the west Lake Worth home where she lives with her aunt and uncle. She arrives in darkness, bleary-eyed but determined to make the most of this job. It's her first. And it might be saving her life.
Roque is 17. But it's not 17 the way many children get there. Roque has seen and done things that make her very much an adult. Two years ago, her mother died of AIDS after a long and slow decline. Roque helped care for her the best she could, but she was young and a hidden anger simmered just below the surface.
The death brought relief in some ways, but it also cut Roque loose. Still in high school, she began cutting class and hanging out with friends in dark places.
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