A 13-month-old Bronx boy died early this morning after he swallowed medicine from a prescription pill bottle—and police believe it happened because his parents gave him the pill bottle to play with as a "rattle." more ›

David Laffer, the 33-year-old man accused of killing four people at a Medford, Long Island pharmacy before robbing the store of over 10,000 hydrocodone pills and other prescription drugs, will plead guilty, according to Newsday's sources. Laffer has a court date tomorrow, and Newsday reports, "Laffer is expected to plead guilty as charged before Suffolk County Court Judge James Hudson. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole." more ›

Six members of a coast-to-coast prescription pill ring that brought more than $1 million worth of "mind-bending" drugs from California into NYC were busted and indicted by Brooklyn federal prosecutors today. And according to the crack comedy writers over at the News, "these guys aren't feeling so groovy anymore." Womp womp. more ›

The CVS pharmacy on 18th Street and Park Avenue is in trouble after customers found old prescription information billowing through the nearby streets. Numerous papers containing patient's names, addresses and old prescription info were not properly disposed of, and patients are angry. Shirley Okin told the Daily News, "I'm just so angry. I'm going to blow my stack!" However, she was apparently fine with letting the press know her mishandled prescription was for fioricet with codeine from back in 2002. more ›

The naked bodies of Shakeema Elliott and her 8-year-old daughter, Kaliya Williams, were found in their Brooklyn home early yesterday morning. Cops were initially called to the Nostrand Houses is Sheepshead Bay after reports of a burglary, and found Shakeema Elliott's door ajar. Police told the Daily News, "There was some water in the bathtub and some pills were around." more ›

The popular ADD medication Adderall is continuing its reign as one of the most popular drugs on college campuses, especially during high-stress finals. Columbia student Daniel D'Addario recently questioned some students about their use of the "study drug," whether it makes them better students, and how easy it has become to find the drug on campuses. more ›

In 2008 state fatalities due to crack, coke, heroin and other drug overdoses were down to their lowest in nearly a decade. Overdose deaths dropped more than a quarter from the previous year to 666, but don't thank Satan. Officials say an opiate antidote drug called naloxone, distributed by community groups as part of heroin users' emergency kits, may have helped lower the number. The AP reports that overdoses remain the third most common cause of death for New Yorkers between 25 and 34. Still the state's most ubiquitous illegal (though not for long?) drug remains marijuana. more ›

The mother accused of killing her 8-year-old son in a botched murder-suicide attempt in a Midtown hotel pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder charges today. Speaking in what was described as "a mousy voice," socialite and pharmaceutical executive Gigi Jordan made the plea via video from her bed in Elmhurst Hospital, where she has been held since she was discovered "babbling incoherently" beside the body of her child earlier this month. more ›

Actor, future Academy Awards co-host, and friend of Pat Kiernan, Alec Baldwin was rushed to Manhattan’s Lenox Hill hospital early this morning. Baldwin was at his Central Park West apartment when his 14-year-old daughter allegedly found him unresponsive—believing he overdosed, she called 911. He was treated just after midnight, and released about an hour later. more ›

The Manhattan socialite accused of killing her son in a failed murder-suicide attempt had became increasingly detached as she tried to find a way to treat her 8-year-old boy's autism, friends said. "When she had Jude, she found herself a character in an Aristotelian tragedy, in that the baby was severely autistic," said Dr. Marcus Conant, a longtime friend of Gigi Jordan. "She felt she had to to fix his problem ... She went to clinics all over the country looking for a treatment, grasping at straws." more ›

The father of the autistic boy found dead at the Peninsula Hotel Friday—allegedly killed by his mother—says Gigi Jordan was a totally devoted mom. “She was not a killer," said Emil Tzekov through tears. ... I cannot understand." Jordan, a successful pharmaceutical rep, even quit her job to be a better parent to little Jude. OK, not everything was copacetic: Tzekov, a successful yoga instructor, revealed that he hadn’t seen his son since 2007 because Jordan blocked his emails and cut off service to her cell phone. more ›

Investigators believe a Manhattan woman killed her 8-year-old son in a failed murder-suicide attempt in a posh Midtown hotel. Police reportedly found 49-year-old socialite Gigi Jordan "babbling incoherently" beside the body of her child, who had been dead for a day, in a room in the Peninsula hotel that was littered with thousands of pills. more ›

Much of the primo, hydroponically-grown herb you'll find in New York comes from Canada, where an untold quantity passes across the border at the Akwesasne Mohawk reservation, which stretches five miles along the banks of the St. Lawrence River. Naturally, the authorities would like to pull the plug on this source, so six weeks ago Joseph Resnick, the head of the NYPD's narcotics division, took a trip up there to see what could be done. The good news for tokers is that the Mohawk smugglers have this down to a science, and Resnik is "astounded at how lenient the border is." more ›

According to People.com, an autopsy shows that celebrity DJ Adam Goldstein had eight Oxycontin pills in his stomach and one in his mouth—a source said, "He wanted to die. He was going unconscious when he took the last one. He didn't even swallow it." A Valentine from his ex-girlfriend Hayley Wood was allegedly found near him (though she denies they broke up); a bag of crack was also reportedly near his body, which was found in his Soho apartment. TMZ reports that Goldstein's funeral was scheduled for today. Additionally, his mother was made the special administrator of his estate (he did not have a will), allowing her to sell his home in LA (there was an offer on it) and settle lawsuits related to the 2008 plane crash he survived. The site adds that documents showed his "annual income from property at $3.5 million, plus an additional $400,000 in assets. The docs list his debts at $2.9 million." more ›

She's going to be a resident of NYC soon, after all. Okay, so at the end of June there was a blind item that screamed C. Lo, it read: "Although she claims to be clean, when she checked out of a Manhattan hotel recently, the maid found the room littered with dirty needles." Now the NY Post confirms it, reporting that it took Courtney Love no time at all to trash her posh room at The Inn on Irving Place. more ›