The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "legal drugs" ...
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Covering Drug Trafficking and Designer Drugs
Learn about the drug trade beyond pills and pot and into the "new designer drugs, created by savvy, backroom chemists that often circumvent local and federal drug laws to provide a dangerous, but legal high."
Tags: drugs; incense; bath salts; plant food; not for human consumption
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Deals with Cops May Be More Than You Bargained For
Getting access to police scenes or even activities such as drug raids can be a big boon for a broadcast station. However the legal strings attached may be more than reporters might think. Tobin details the legal implications of working with police departments. He also explains ways to avoid certain pitfalls in such deals.
Tags: law; media law; lawyers; police; broadcast; legal issues
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An Investigative Examination of Bayers Legal Drug
Tipsheet talks about Lutgert's investigation about "the deadly cholesterol-lowering drug Lipobay or Baycol, produced by the world-renowned German pharmaceutical manufacturer Bayer." According to Lutgert, "In August 2001, Bayer voluntarily withdrew Lipobay from the market after scores of deaths worldwide were associated with the drug (sold under the name Baycol in the U.S.)."
Tags: Bayer; Baycol; Lipobay; cholesterol; drug; medicine; medical problems; deaths from medicine
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Investigating Legal Drugs
Prescription drugs can be just as problematic as illegal substances. Skertic covered abuse of Ritalin and similar drugs used to treat ADD children. In this tipsheet, he discusses the experiences he had working on the story and how you can do similar work in your newsroom. Skertic goes into the database he used and what problems you will encounter getting and using the data.
Tags: prescription; drugs; legal drugs; ritalin; adderall; ADD; ADHD; doctors; medicine; medication; FOI; DEA; pharmacies; pharmacist; narcotics; national drug code
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Prescription Painkillers
A run down on the Lexington Herald Leader's story Prescription for Pain. This tipsheet includes what federal and state data they used and the findings discovered.
Tags: drugs; prescription drugs; databases; legal drugs; morphine; hydrocodone; FOI
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6 website addresses that can be helpful for stories about prescription drug abuse. Bundled with several stories from Sun-Santinel about pain management, overdosing and legal drugs abuse.
Tags: legal drugs; painkillers; drugs; Rx; prescription; abuse
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Investigating Legal Drugs
A presentation of how to create a story from data obtained from the state prescription-monitoring program. Helpful CAR hints on how to interprete and process the data are also given. The tipsheet is bundled with a story that derived from interpreting the data in Illinois, called "Ritalin Roulette", about the administration of potent drugs to treat atention deficit or hyperactivity disorders, to children.
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Ritalin Hot Spots; DEA & Ritalin///CDC and Mortality and Census Data
Marchak of The Plain Dealer offers tips how to deal with the Drug Enforcement Administration, and how to access and analyze the agency's data.
Tags: CAR; FOIA; pharmacies; Centers for Disease Control; doctors
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Searching EDGAR
David Heath of the Seattle Times offers the program that he has written to download annual reports and proxy statements from the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The program, originally created to look for 10Ks of biotech companies, reads the web address for each document and writes it to a single large file.
Tags: software; companies; business; stocks and bonds; CAR