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FILE - In this Monday Oct. 20, 2008 file photo, Michael Addison, center, looks around in Manchester, N.H as jurors view the area where Manchester police officer Michael Briggs was shot and killed. Addison was convicted of killing Briggs. On Wednesday Nov. 6, 2013 the New Hampshire Supreme Court upheld Addison's sentence of the state's only death row inmate. The ruling opens the way for Addison to become the first person executed in New Hampshire since 1939. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
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A pharmacist at Marquier's Pharmacy in Newark, N.J., holds a bottle of the prescription drug Ritalin on March 26, 1996. Ritalin, manufactured by Ciba Pharmaceuticals based in Summit, N.J., is prescribed for hyperactivity in children but has been abused by some adolescents who take larger quantities to get high. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
