While businesses and society institute these measures to combat the high-tech gadget abuse, the bad behavior will probably remain, Friedland says.

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If the panel's advice is adopted by FDA, it would put hydrocodone on par with prescription painkillers like oxycodone, morphine, and methadone -- drugs with high abuse potential that can lead to severe physical dependence.

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Major-General Antonio Taguba, the man charged with investigating the abuses, told the Senate that he had found no evidence that the abuse was based on orders from high-ranking officers or involved a deliberate policy of softening up prisoners.

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But these high-profile cases don't necessarily mean that sex abuse is on the rise.

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Our guiding principle has been to focus resources on targeting high-risk areas in order to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in Federal programs, while increasing flexibility and reducing burden for grant recipients wherever possible.

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