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Jude Law in ‘Side Effects’; Shakespeare in Jail: Movies

Posted: Published on February 8th, 2013

The quietly bloody opening of Steven Soderberghs psychiatric-meds melodrama Side Effects leaves a horror-movie chill. Then the picture unfolds so upsettingly that the last thing I expected was to be laughing my head off by the end. The title refers specifically to the malign side effects of prescription antidepressants. A psychiatrist (Jude Law) takes on a suicidal patient (Rooney Mara), whose husband (Channing Tatum) has just finished a four-year sentence for insider trading. The shrink puts her on a fictional pill called Ablixa. The critique of Big Pharma is implicit throughout: Hes also being paid $50,000 to enlist guinea pigs for yet another new drug. We see one patient jump at the chance -- never mind the risks -- as soon as she finds out its free. The terrific cast includes Vinessa Shaw as Laws wife, Ann Dowd as Tatums mother and Catherine Zeta-Jones with her hair yanked back in a bun and a bearing hard enough to break teeth. Thomas Newmans initially delicate score draws you in without directing your feelings at every minute. The demonically clever script, by Scott Z. Burns, dances dangerously close to the edge of oh-come-on -- and in retrospect there are a couple of … Continue reading →

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Warning: 'Side Effects' May Include Eye-Rolling

Posted: Published on February 8th, 2013

In Steven Soderbergh's medical thriller Side Effects, Emily (Rooney Mara) goes through an emotional crisis and then a psychopharmacological one after her husband Martin (Channing Tatum) is released from prison. Side Effects Rated R for violence, profanity, drug use With: Channing Tatum, Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones It's the drug's fault, man. That's the defense offered by the perpetrator brought to trial in Side Effects, a stylish, vaguely Hitchcockian dud. But what excuse does this fatally silly movie have? The film, reportedly the final big-screen effort for prolific director Steven Soderbergh, begins in a New York apartment where something bad has happened. Blood on the floor, smeared and tracked by footprints, suggests murder, suicide or extreme clumsiness. It's not the last option, of course. But then the story hits rewind, postponing the moment when we learn who was hurt, and how. Three months earlier, Emily (Rooney Mara) is waiting for her husband's release from prison. Martin (Channing Tatum) isn't the violent type; he went away for insider trading. Yes, the beefy actor who usually plays dancers, thugs or thuggish dancers is now impersonating a Wall Street broker. It's dubious casting, but not nearly so implausible as the script. Emily … Continue reading →

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Walgreen CEO Gregory D. Wasson Joins Verizon Board of Directors

Posted: Published on February 8th, 2013

NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) today announced the election of Gregory D. Wasson, president and chief executive officer of Walgreen Co. (WAG), to the Verizon Board of Directors, effective March 1. "Greg Wasson brings to Verizon an in-depth knowledge of the retail and health care industries," said Lowell C. McAdam, Verizon chairman and chief executive officer. "He offers a unique perspective as the leader of a successful Fortune 50 company focused on innovation, traditional and nontraditional growth, operational and technical excellence, and multichannel integration. We welcome him as a valuable addition to our board." Wasson will bring Verizon's total board membership to 13. Wasson has been Walgreens president and CEO, and has served as a Walgreens director, since February 2009. Walgreen Co. is based in Deerfield, Ill., and together with its subsidiaries operates the largest drugstore chain in the U.S., with $71.6 billion in net sales, 8,385 locations and 240,000 employees in fiscal 2012. Wasson joined Walgreens as a pharmacy intern in 1980, and after earning his bachelor's degree from Purdue University in 1981 he managed several Houston Walgreens drugstores before being promoted to district manager in 1986. He was promoted to a … Continue reading →

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Child Poverty In UK 'The Bigger Picture' – Video

Posted: Published on February 8th, 2013

Child Poverty In UK'The Bigger Picture' As many as 2.3 million children are not being included in official poverty statistics despite living "materially deprived" lives, according to a new report. Households are currently deemed to be living below the poverty line if the money coming in is less than 60% of the average income. But the think tank Policy Exchange says that definition is too narrow and that social deprivation should also be considered. "It doesn't matter if you are just above the line or below the line," said the head of economics and social policy at the organisation, Matthew Oakley . "If you have poor education, poor housing, you're struggling with family life, there's debt in the household, we should be trying to help these families... Just focusing on income clearly isn't enough." Ruth Woodgate lives with her two daughters in the Nelson ward of Great Yarmouth, where nearly half of all children suffer poverty. With 209 coming in each week, they are living way below the poverty line. All too often she relies on her bowl of coppers to find enough money for a loaf of bread. "I find I'm constantly … Continue reading →

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Drug Users Turn Death Dealers as Methadone From Bain Hits Street

Posted: Published on February 8th, 2013

After Jennifer Vanlieu turned to methadone treatment to beat an addiction to heroin and pain pills, she morphed from drug-user to convicted drug-dealer. Vanlieu said she got a carryout methadone dose at a clinic operated by CRC Health Corp. in Richmond, Indiana, in March, 2010, and then gave about 15 milligrams to her friend Carissa Plemons. Plemons died hours later, after ingesting a lethal mix of methadone and other drugs, according to police reports. Take-home methadone -- doses patients carry out instead of taking at clinics -- enabled the abuse, said Vanlieu, 26, who was sentenced to six years in prison for dealing the drug to Plemons. While she didnt sell it to her friend, she said in an interview that other clinic patients often re-sold their take- homes. CRC is owned by Boston-based Bain Capital Partners LLC and is the largest U.S. provider of methadone treatment. Some would sell it in the parking lot, she said. Liquid methadone, used for decades to help addicts abate withdrawal symptoms as they quit heroin or other opiates, is leaking into illegal street sales via take-home doses, according to law-enforcement officials in Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. Investigators in each of those … Continue reading →

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Prison is just another form of 'welfare dependency' for criminals, Tory MP says

Posted: Published on February 8th, 2013

He points out that Britain is at the top of the European league tables for reoffending rates even though it is spending more on crime and justice than ever before. "Elsewhere in Europe, the prison population has followed crime rates down. Yet back here in Blighty we are ramming our prisons full, spending a fortune in the process and doing very little to turn criminals lives around In sum, we are spending far more to achieve less and less. That is lunacy and anathema to any Conservative. Mr Gummer also said the Right should object to the fact that prisons cause a "waste of life". "For many criminals, prison is just another welfare dependency, and we might challenge its over-use on those grounds alone," he added. "The failure to tackle mental health, profound psychological disorder, drug and alcohol addiction and moral vacuity, is in itself a crime on societys part. We put people behind walls and then forget about them. That is wrong. The MP said Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary, is making progress but more reform of Britain's "failing" prison system is needed. Mr Grayling said he wanted to be a "tough" Justice Secretary when he took over the … Continue reading →

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Stars by Callalily (INUMAN SESSIONS) – Video

Posted: Published on February 8th, 2013

Stars by Callalily (INUMAN SESSIONS) Warning: Dont watch if you are under drugs... Parental guidance is advice By: Gian Peaflor … Continue reading →

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Posted: Published on February 8th, 2013

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Drugs in Sport: Stunned sports bodies admit they need help to fight back

Posted: Published on February 8th, 2013

Australian sport has reacted swiftly to the Australian Crime Commission report about widespread drugs cheating and organised crime links. Jason Clare, the national Minister for Home Affairs and Justice, summed up the mood of anger. "The findings are shocking and will disgust Australian sports fans," he said. "It is cheating but it is worse than that. It's cheating with the help of criminals. We're talking about multiple athletes across multiple codes." There has been horror at the end of the ACC's 12-month investigation of performance-enhancing drugs being taken across sports, with the complicity of coaches and sports scientists, and distributed by organised crime, leading to potential risks of match-fixing. John Lawler, the commission chief executive, said he hoped criminal charges would be laid, while the Government has already introduced legislation to increase the powers of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (Asada). Major Australian sports will create integrity units which will work together. Australia's rugby league body, the NRL, reacted quickly. Its integrity compliance unit will be headed by former Federal Court judge Tony Whitlam. The NRL chief executive, Dave Smith, admitted it "affects more than one player at more than one club". Communications giant Telstra recently paid A$50m (32.7m) for … Continue reading →

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Europe Pushes to Keep Lethal Injection Drugs From U.S. Prisons

Posted: Published on February 8th, 2013

Pharmaceutical makers have long promoted their products as a means to enhance or prolong life. Now some have been enmeshed in a transatlantic battle over whether their drugs can also be used to end it. Europe is escalating its war on the U.S. practice of executing inmates with prescription drugs, and theyre making it harder for prisons in the 33 states where lethal injection is legal to acquire their weapons of choice. The U.S. is one of only two developed democracies to use capital punishment. The other, Japan, executes by hanging. Not only is capital punishment outlawed across Europe, but European policy is also to work actively for abolition of the death penalty worldwide, says Sarah Ludford, a member of the European Parliament. By persuading responsible pharmaceutical companies to supervise their distribution chain and by getting controls on exports from Europe tightened, U.S. prisons ability to procure their death machine supplies has been thwarted. Lethal injection usually involves three drugs: one to put an inmate to sleep, one to paralyze the muscles, and one to stop the heart. First adopted by Oklahoma more than 35 years ago, that protocol had been little changed until Europe two years ago began limiting … Continue reading →

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