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Nurse Jackie showrunners, creators and executive producers Linda Wallem and Liz Brixius are stepping down from Showtime’s darkly funny Edie Falco starrer about a prescription-drug addicted New York nurse after four seasons,

Jennifer Capriati, once the top ranked women’s tennis player in the world, was hospitalized after a suspected prescription drug overdose over the weekend. The tennis prodigy, 34, was rushed to a Florida hospital after paramedics responded to a call for a possible overdose.

Women are suffering from pill addiction at alarming rates.

Brittany Murphy was experiencing flu-like symptoms before her death. An autopsy on the Clueless star is underway. Murphy began vomiting early on Sunday morning and her father speaks out. Ashton Kutcher twitters to Murphy's family, along with Jessica Simpson and Kim Kardashian. Husband Simon Monjack mourns amid reports that Murphy died from anorexia or drug overdose, but Murphy's cause of death... In addition to her stunning turn as a suicidal incest victim in Girl Interrupted Murphy played lesbian in the critically acclaimed HBO movie Common Ground and in The Dead Girl.

Two drugs will be allowed to appear in Lindsay Lohan's system when she undergoes random drug testing in the coming weeks as part of a sentence handed down by a judge stemming from her 2007 DUI arrest.

Heathers’ star Winona Ryder was rushed to the hospital after an in-flight mystery illness on a plane bound for London forced the pilot to make a priority landing Wednesday. Now, The Daily Mail is reporting that Ryder, a notorious bad flyer, suffered a reaction to popping too many Xanax to help ease her in-flight anxiety.

The baddest ass nurse on the east coast is back for a fourth season, and we have the season premiere of Showtime’s Nurse Jackie for you right here.

The Los Angeles County Coroner's Report on Whitney Houston was released today and while "accidental drowning" is listed as the cause of death, cocaine was found in the star's system.

Video of Brittany Murphy talking about her role in the movie Across the Hall, sadly one of her last known interviews, has surfaced. Murphy died Sunday morning after suffering full cardiac arrest. An emergency call was made from the home of Murphy's husband Simon Monjack at 8am. An autopsy to reveal Murphy's cause of death took place Monday, but results will not be known for several weeks.

Elton John's integrity is a "Candle in the Wind," now that the openly gay rock and pop music male diva has performed at conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh's fourth wedding over the weekend, singing for some 400 guests at the ceremony in Palm Beach, Florida and taking home a $1 million paycheck.

Nurse Jackie is just about the baddest ass Florence Nightingale to ever don scrubs and a stethoscope, and from the looks of Showtime’s latest promo for season four of the series -- created by out lesbians Linda Wallem and Liz Brixius -- Jackie is as unhinged as ever! And that’s just the way we like her.

'80s child star Corey Haim was found dead of a drug overdose early Wednesday morning. The LA coroner's office said Haim died at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. The actor was taken from an apartment in Los Angeles by ambulance to the hospital. Haim became a teen heartthrob in movies like "Lucas" and  "Lost Boys." Recently shot "The Science of Cool" with actress Mischa Barton. Watch shocking video of Haim and Feldman feuding over childhood molestation and drugs on the "Two Coreys" here.