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Paying for Pills: How Prescription Drug Abuse Hits Us All
By Elaine Grant on Friday, July 31, 2009.A former New Hampshire nurse has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining Oxycontin from the Hampton nursing home where she worked.
Because the nurse claimed it was for patients, that Oxycontin was paid for by Medicare or the Veterans Administration.
But the nurse used the pills herself.
That’s one small example of the huge economic burden that growing abuse of prescription drugs is placing on taxpayers and the health care system.
In the fifth and final story in our series on prescription drug abuse, health reporter Elaine Grant examines how someone else’s addiction is hitting your wallet.
Did You Wait To Start A Family?
By Jen Nathan on Friday, July 31, 2009.
Women and men are having children later in life, often after they’ve established careers, bought a home, traveled the world, and achieved other milestones. Starting a family at age 40, 50 or beyond comes with its own set of joys and challenges.
Insects By Streetlight
By Avishay Artsy on Friday, July 31, 2009.Michigan artist Charlie McCarthy made 156 long-exposure photographs of insects flying around a street light. Then he put them together to make this nice video:
Bill To Put More Retired Judges On Bench Draws Questions
By Josh Rogers on Friday, July 31, 2009.Proponents say a cash-strapped court system needs ways to handle rising caseloads. Critics say the measure flouts the Constitution, which requires judges retire at age 70, and puts the judiciary in the role of selecting judges.
Quantum Mechanics Gets Big
By Martha Poole on Friday, July 31, 2009.
For physicists, there are two realms of the physical world. There’s the classical realm, the one we know — where apples fall from trees, and any object you put down is going to stay there — unless you’ve got kids in the house.
When Lightning Strikes
By Dave Anderson on Thursday, July 30, 2009.What happens to trees struck by lightning?
Speaking of Faith's Krista Tippett
By Laura Knoy on Thursday, July 30, 2009.Started in July 2001, Speaking of Faith took its name from a book by host Krista Tippett. In her book, Tippett tried to explain “how she went from that mode of geopolitical engagement”, as a stringer for various magazines, “to becoming a religious person again and studying theology”. It's these kind of journeys Tippett hopes to discover on her radio show, whether through religion, ethics, ideas or the meaning of life. We’ll talk with Tippett about her show and the journeys she, her guests and her listeners have taken.
This program was originally broadcast April 2, 2009
Gardens are Growing....in Number
By Mark Bevis on Thursday, July 30, 2009.On Saturday, Governor Lynch is scheduled to announce at the Concord Farmers Market that August is Eat Local month.
It's an attempt to promote local farms and locally grown foods.
But as NHPR's Mark Bevis reports, the governor does not have to do a lot of convincing.
The state is witnessing a surge in local vegetable gardens.
July 30, 2009
Today on Word of Mouth, bloggers and new media types propose a liberal arts course catalog for the twenty-first century. A foodie tries to stay away from corn-based products for a week. And, the return of the yo-yo - the depression-era toy makes a come-back. Plus, a cellist and a filmmaker team up on an innovative project about family and memory.
(Photo by digital_freak via Flickr/Creative Commons)
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