Hydromorphone, a more common synonym for dihydromorphinone, commonly a hydrochloride (brand names Palladone, Dilaudid, and numerous others) is a very potent centrally acting analgesic drug of the opioid class. It is a derivative of morphine, to be specific, a hydrogenated ketone thereof and, therefore, a semi-synthetic drug. It is, in medical terms, an opioid analgesic and, in legal terms, a narcotic. It is commonly used in the hospital setting, mostly intravenously (IV), due to the fact that the bioavailability oral (Mouth), rectal (Anus), or intranasal, aka "Snorting" (Nose) is very low.

Hydromorphone is used in medicine as an alternative to morphine for analgesia, and as a second- or third-line narcotic antitussive (cough suppressant) for cases of dry, painful, paroxysmal coughing resulting from continuing bronchial irritation after influenza and other ailments, inhalation of fungus, and other causes. In general, it is considered the strongest of the antitussive drugs, and was developed shortly after diacetylmorphine (heroin) was removed from clinical use for this purpose in most of the world and banned outright in many countries. The effectiveness of hydrocodone as an antitussive may be partly due to it being partially converted to hydromorphone in the liver.

François Miron (born 1962) is a French-Canadian experimental filmmaker.

Miron was born in Montreal in 1962. He obtained a BFA from Concordia University in 1987 and an MFA from The School of The Art Institute Of Chicago in 1990.

His early body of work consist of found footage manipulation through optical printing and abstract cinematography of industrial landscapes, his abstract work has lately been shifting into more "traditional" narrative cinema, although a strong psychedelic and surreal influence still is present. Most of his films have been exhibited worldwide.

Aside from those, Miron has created over 15 films since 1982.

In 2003 he was ranked 4th best filmmaker of Montreal by The Montreal Mirror 14th annual reader's poll

In 2008 he won a Juno Award for his photographic work on the cover of the Arcade Fire CD: Neon Bible.

Since 2007, he has been working on a feature length documentary about legendary Avant-Garde filmmaker Paul Sharits to be completed early 2013

Lethal injection is the practice of injecting a person with a fatal dose of drugs (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing the immediate death of the subject. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in a broad sense to euthanasia and suicide. It kills the person by first putting the person to sleep, and then stopping the breathing and heart in that order.

Lethal injection gained popularity in the twentieth century as a form of execution intended to supplant other methods, notably electrocution, hanging, firing squad, gas chamber, and beheading, that were considered to be more painful. It is now the most common form of execution in the United States of America.

The concept of lethal injection as a means of putting someone to death was first proposed on January 17, 1888, by Julius Mount Bleyer, a New York doctor who praised it as being cheaper than hanging. Bleyer's idea, however, was never used. The British Royal Commission on Capital Punishment (1949–53) also considered lethal injection, but eventually rejected it after pressure from the British Medical Association (BMA).