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Wow. What a disgusting abuse of power.

A pain management doctor in New York has been arrested for writing more than 17,000 prescriptions of powerfully addictive drugs like oxycodone for over 2 years.

His "patients" included 10 who have died due to overdoses and one man, a known drug dealer, who killed 4 people in a pharmacy robbery.

The city's Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan is accusing Dr. Stan Li of intentionally writing prescriptions for unneeded narcotics in return for cash by charging him with prescription sale and reckless endangerment.

On top of charging patients between $100 and $150 a visit, depending on their "complexity", he sometimes billed government health programs for the visits.

Although his defense attorney believes Dr. Li "followed the rules" and "did what he had to do", the prosecution calls his actions "just another form of drug dealing."

We're inclined to agree with the latter.

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Does this make iTunes the biggest drug dealer in the world?

According to new research published in Nature Neuroscience by a team of McGill university scientists, listening to good music can "trigger feelings of euphoria" that your brain will want to feel again, similar to using a drug.

Here's what the head scientist on the study Valorie Salimpoor had to say about it:

"If music-induced emotional states can lead to dopamine release, as our findings indicate, it may begin to explain why musical experiences are so valued. These results further speak to why music can be effectively used in rituals, marketing or film to manipulate hedonistic states.

Our findings provide neurochemical evidence that intense emotional responses to music involve ancient reward circuitry and serve as a starting point for more detailed investigations of the biological substrates that underlie abstract forms of pleasure."

We hope TOO many people aren't binging on the new Brit Brit track, now that we know that music is like a drug. Wouldn't want anyone to OD on Britney!

ha!

[Image via WENN.]

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