Muscle Relaxers

Whitney Houston was submerged in bathwater for nearly an hour before a personal assistant found her dead in the Beverly Hilton Hotel, an autopsy report released Wednesday said. The report provided new details on the death of the 48-year-old singer......

The coroner’s investigation into the death of Whitney Houston came to a close Wednesday with a final autopsy report that described the singer submerged face-down in hot water in the bathtub of her Beverly Hills hotel suite with a unidentified......

Police have concluded their investigation into Whitney Houston's death in a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub, determining that the singer’s pre-Grammy Awards death did not involve foul play. Lt. Mark Rosen, a spokesman for the Beverly Hills Police...

As California's top prescriber of narcotic painkillers and other commonly abused drugs, Dr. Nazar Al Bussam made hundreds of thousands of dollars feeding the addictions of strung-out patients who packed into his offices in Downey and Los Angeles,...

Florida's Charlie Weis used a cane on the sideline of Saturday's game at South Carolina, something the offensive coordinator said he did to deal with hip pain. Weis had knee surgery in 2008 after being hit on the sideline at Notre Dame but he said his...

Vic Chesnutt, a singer-songwriter of spare, idiosyncratic folk songs tinged with melancholy, died Christmas Day in Athens, Ga., after taking an overdose of prescription muscle relaxants, a family spokesman said. He was 45. Chesnutt had been admitted to...

A Riverside County psychiatrist who drove a Corvette and lived in a gated community allegedly wrote prescriptions in the lobby of his fitness club and outside restaurants for $100 each. More than $1 million was stashed in luggage at the house of an...

Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend and a doctor surrendered to face charges that they conspired to provide the Playboy Playmate with thousands of prescription pills before her 2007 fatal overdose. A second doctor also is accused. Howard K. Stern...

Kathleen Mallon-Stone’s apartment was brimming with bottles of prescription drugs. She used them to fight unrelenting pain from a congenital back deformity and the surgeries she endured to try to cure it. When the drugs weren’t enough, she often curled...