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Photo credit: Bruce Gilbert | Senator Charles Schumer and Joni Kovacs, who lost her son to a prescription drug overdose, called for a crackdown on sites illegally selling prescription drugs. (July 11, 2011)
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Every few weeks, Joni Kovacs-Howe leaves a message on the Facebook memorial for her son, Steven Kovacs. The notes of love and regret are one way she remembers the 22-year-old aspiring psychologist, who died of a prescription drug overdose on July 8, 2009.
Crusading against online pharmacies like those that sold Steven the drugs -- even after his prescription lapsed -- is another. "It's ridiculous...
