Three key players in the troubled world of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith have been ordered to stand trial after a hearing that plumbed the drug-fueled depths of her final years and the alleged roles of her boyfriend and two doctors in feeding her addiction to prescription drugs. ...more

October 31, 2009

It has come to this: Linda Hogan has taken a drug test to prove to estranged husband Hulk Hogan that she isn't on drugs. ...more

June 3, 2009

An 83-year-old pain management doctor has been indicted on 10 charges of illegally prescribing pain and anti-anxiety medications from his Busch Boulevard office. ...more

March 24, 2009

Anna Nicole Smith's death may have been from an accidental overdose, but prosecutors say her ex-boyfriend and two doctors were responsible for feeding the Playboy Playmate's addiction. ...more

March 13, 2009

Many people use drugs to escape into the world of pleasure. ...more

December 26, 2008

Prescription pill abuse killed three times more Floridians last year than an overdose of an illegal drug ...more

August 17, 2008

Although fewer young people are using marijuana and other illegal drugs, the percentage of teenagers abusing prescription painkillers remains alarmingly high, according to a national teen drug use survey released Tuesday at the White House. ...more

December 12, 2007

The rate of drug users who fatally overdose on methadone, a prescription that curbs heroin addiction, is skyrocketing at an alarming pace, a new Justice Department study shows. ...more

December 6, 2007

Regarding 'Change Florida's Draconian Drug Trafficking Statute' (Other Views, Sept 26): ...more

October 1, 2007