A pair of western Washington wildlife shelters worked this week to nurse five sick bald eagles back to health. The eagles were showing signs of barbiturate poisoning, which happens when the birds ...

A young bald eagle will be released into the wild after making a full recovery from barbiturate poisoning. The eagle was found on the side of a road on Sept. 8 and rescued by Skegemog Raptor Center.

TV Engineer Alan Adair, 30, unhappily divorced and tired of life, parked his car alongside Los Angeles’ Ballona Creek one evening and washed down a handful of barbiturate sleeping pills with milk.

These drawbacks to self-destruction, as ticked off by Dorothy Parker, do not apply to an overdose of sleeping pills. In recent years the barbiturates have enjoyed alarming popularity as a painless ...