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Michael says he didn't realize how deadly drugs could be at the time.

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More than 400 Westchester students gathered in October as part of Project WORTHY's Youth Summit at the Westchester County Center where keynote speaker and Olympic coach Tony Hoffman warned students about how prescription drugs found in a medicine cabinet led him down a near deadly path of addiction, crime and prison, before he started his journey to recovery.

Their first visit was to CytoCybernetics, where CEO Glenna Bett explained how her company has developed a system that uses computers and live human cells to screen drugs in their early stages of development, to determine whether they may cause any potentially deadly side effects.

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Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.

UT Southwestern Medical Center cancer researchers have identified a protein critical to the spread of deadly cancer cells and determined how it works, paving the way for potential use in diagnosis and eventually possible therapeutic drugs to halt or slow the spread of cancer.

Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)

Read on in Generation Rx for: — exclusive interviews with the strategists, scientists, and current and former heads of GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Merck, Roche, and more — a first - ever, inside look at the rollicking business story behind pharma's rise to power — the dramatic effects our drug culture is having on our major organs, from the liver to the heart to the brain — why old bodies and young bodies are the biggest, and riskiest, arenas for our great American prescription pill party — how the largely uncharted terrain of polypharmacy (various drugs taken together) has unleashed unanticipated, often deadly, consequences on unwitting patients Generation Rx will make every American who has ever taken a prescription drug look anew at what's in our medicine cabinets, and why.