Free Pills From Friends Driving Painkiller Abuse: Study

Published March 5, 2014

Free pills from friends driving painkiller abuse: Study
But previous CDC data show overdose deaths involving these drugs more than tripled from 1999 to 2010, with more than 16,000 deaths that year. By contrast, overdose deaths that involved heroin and cocaine totaled less than 8,000, and deaths that …
Read more on CBS News

Lawyers seek dismissal in stillborn-death case
(AP) — A Mississippi woman who gave birth to a stillborn child at age 16 is challenging a "depraved heart murder" charge that was filed against her by prosecutors who said her cocaine use killed the baby. Lawyers for Rennie Gibbs are scheduled to be …
Read more on Beaumont Enterprise

Kitchens expected to rule on Gibbs case
Lowndes County prosecutors say Gibbs caused the child's death by using cocaine during her pregnancy. Gibbs was 16 at the time of the child's stillbirth. She was arrested and charged with depraved heart murder, the first woman charged with the crime in …
Read more on The Commercial Dispatch

More Cocaine Effects Pregnancy Information…