After pushing for tighter restrictions of prescribed narcotics and attempting to block a "super painkiller" ten times more powerful than Vicoden, Senator Chuck Schumer wants to allocate $140 million in federal funding towards developing a test that would catch drivers who are under the influence of drugs. "If people next year knew they'd be tested for drugged driving just like they are tested for drunk driving, it might deter them from doing it to begin with and save lives," Schumer told the AP. more ›

With a local Fox news crew on hand to document her humiliation, former Miss Russia Anna Malova was arrested Tuesday afternoon after allegedly using stolen perscription sheets to buy 85 Vicodin pills from a West Village pharmacy. Milova—fashionably attired in a black fur-lined coat and skinny jeans, toting a Burberry plaid umbrella—told a Fox 5 reporter she didn't know why she was being arrested, and had no answer to the reporter's maudlin follow-up question: "What do you tell little girls who look up to beauty queens like you?" more ›

The swine flu vaccine has finally arrived in New York, and not a moment too soon, as it has finally afflicted one of our own: Lindsay Robertson at Daily Intel has been stricken with swine flu for the past week—or so she thinks... more ›