Type "OxyContin" and "pharmacy" into your Internet search engine and watch what happens. Within seconds, you'll have links to thousands of Web sites promising easy access to the drug. The same goes for Vicodin or just about any other painkiller you can name. ...more

December 30, 2007

TAMPA - Type "OxyContin" and "pharmacy" into your Internet search engine and watch what happens. Within seconds, you'll have links to thousands of Web sites promising easy access to the drug. The same goes for Vicodin or just about any other painkiller you can name. These addictive drugs are strictly regulated by state and federal laws and are supposed to be available only through prescriptions. But with a credit card and a click or two on a computer, it's possible to bypass the system and have the medications delivered to your door. ...more

December 28, 2007

TAMPA - Police charged a woman with felony child neglect Wednesday night after they found her 2-year-old son unattended and running along a sidewalk next to a four-lane portion of North Boulevard, they say. Latasha Regina Kendrick, 26, of Tampa, appeared to have just woken up when she answered the door after an officer knocked, an arrest affidavit states. ...more

October 18, 2007

SEMINOLE - An armed man robbed a Seminole pharmacy late Friday afternoon, stealing an undisclosed amount of money and pain medication, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. ...more

October 14, 2007

It's normal to feel compassion for people so overcome by chronic pain from health problems that they break laws to obtain large quantities of the medicine they need, then, incredibly, are branded drug traffickers and sentenced to prison for at least 25 years. ...more

September 27, 2007

TAMPA – A man who a prosecutor said gave steroids to at least two now-deceased professional wrestlers was sentenced this morning to 18 months in prison. ...more

September 19, 2007