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The Killer Cure
Thousands of patients have died as a result of the Food and Drug Administration, along with drug companies, have failed to warn Americans about the dangers of methadone. People are overdosing on methadone, and federal officials hired a doctor on the payroll of a methdaone maker to report on the number of deaths each year.
Tags: FDA; OD; poison; oxycontin; prescription drug; heroin; opium
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"Life in the projects is my start, not my finish."
The "warehousing" of the poor in high-rise housing projects like Darst-Webbe is becoming a thing of the past. If the federal governemnt accepts a proposal by the city od St. Louis, Darst-Webbe -- now largely abandoned -- will go the way of so many public housing projects projects across the country. The high-rises will be demolished to make room for a new experiemnt in public housing, a neighborhood approach to attract low and middle income renters as well as home owners.