Fighting club drugs at raves and the ecstasy knockoff PMA
Dear Ann Landers responds to a DEA head about ecstasy dangers and club drugs. Letters from readers across the United States and abroad discuss drug use at raves, warnings, safety tips, testing kits, and skepticism of policy.
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Dear Ann Landers
DEA
Donnie Marshall
PMA
Netherlands
Robert Sharpe
MPA
Lindesmith Center
Drug Policy Foundation
Washington, D.C
Dallas
Johnstown
Cuyahoga Falls
Ohio
Nashville
Sydney
Australia
RaveSafe
Bloomfield Hills
Mich
FT. Lauderdale
Fla
Comcast and AT&T Broadband mull hostile merger bid
Comcast proposes a 44.5 billion offer for AT&T Broadband to create a dominant cable and high speed internet provider. The plan would combine roughly 22 million subscribers and top market positions, with AT&T stakeholders urged to push a deal ahead of a spin off vote. The move follows failed negotiations and aims to reshape the cable industry landscape.
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New York
At&t
Comcast Corp
Comcast
U.S
At&t Broadband
Ralph J. Roberts
At&t Management
MediaOne
Time Warner Entertainment
Cablevision
Misdiagnosed bladder pain may be interstitial cystitis
A reader asks about a yearlong urinary tract infection and Dr. Donohue explains the condition could be interstitial cystitis, not a simple infection. He notes bladder lining disruption, confirms antibiotics often fail, and lists treatments such as bladder distension with water, DMSO, Flmiron, and amitriptyline. He advises contacting the Interstitial Cystitis Association at 800 435 7422 or 301 610 5300 for Canadians, and visiting ichelp.org.
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DR. Donohue
G.C
Num
Association
Ichelp.org
PAN Poised to Retain Baja California Governor Job
Baja California trends show PAN leading with 49.5 percent of 57 percent tallied, PRI at 36.1, as 14 state congressional seats and four mayorships tilt to Fox’s party. Elorduy vows to continue PAN progress, tackling crime amid cartel concerns in the border state.
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Mexicali
Mexico
Vicente Fox
Baja California
National Action Party
Fox
PAN
Institutional Revolutionary Party
PRI
State Electoral Institute of
Tecate
Chiapas
Yucatan
Jalisco
Eugenio Elorduy
Elorduy
Arellano Felix Brothers
Park ranger in California shoots gunman
In Morro Bay California a man identified as Stephen Deflaur 42 of Blythe was shot in the abdomen by a park ranger after he allegedly shot Stephen Wells and his 11 year old nephew Jerry Rios during a campsite dispute at Morro Strand State Park Wells, and the ranger both survived.
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Morro Bay
Calif
Stephen Deflaur
Blythe
Morro Strand State Park
Stephen Wells
San Pedro
Deflaur
San Luis Obispo
Steve Bolts
Wells
Jerry Rios
Los Angeles
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