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2008 Heath Ledger, dies in New York City, toxic combination of prescription drugs, at 28

2007 Marion Jones gives up 5 Olympic medals after admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs

1997 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Longs Drugs Challenge

1993 John Bowles, president (Rexall Drugs), dies at 76

1992 Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs

1991 Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginia seizing drugs

1989 Cards outfielder Leon Durham suspended for 60 days due to drugs

1988 Expos Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drugs

1988 New York City Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs

1988 Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by U.S. grand jury for drugs

1986 Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt is arrested at US-Mexico border for drugs

1986 Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs

1986 Johnson and Johnson announces it no longer sell capsule drugs

1982 President Reagan proclaims war against drugs

1982 John Honeyman-Scott, guitarist (Pretenders), overdoses on drugs

1981 Dr. George Nichopoulas is acquitted of overprescribing addictive drugs for Elvis Presley

1980 Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs

1980 Jon-Jon Poulos, rocker (Buckinghams), dies from drugs at 32

1977 Elvis Presley, rocker, dies of heart ailment and drugs at Graceland at 42

1976 Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony

1973 Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted on drugs in California

1972 Courts awarded Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because winner was given drugs before race

1969 George Harrison and Patti Boyd are fined 250 pounds each for illegal drugs

1968 Dancer Image DQ due to drugs after winning 94th Kent Derby in 2:02

1967 Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge

1967 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful busted for drugs

1962 President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs

1957 New York narcotics investigator, Dr. Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes

1932 Arnfried G D P, Dutch manufacturer, breadcrumbs, drugs dealer

1899 Percy L. Julian, chemist, drugs for treatment of arthritis


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