When I started taking opioids, they were all I was taking. I’d always thought of medicine as a take-only-when-needed kind of ...
WATERLOO — A Cedar Rapids nurse has been sentenced to probation for taking opioid medication from patients at a Black Hawk ...
Prescription opioid misuse is a very serious problem in the United States. The misuse of prescription opioids is typically defined as: (a) use of a prescription opioid without a prescription of ...
Cass County just received more money to help fight the opioid crisis thanks to a national settlement, and the county wants to ...
Opioid settlement payouts will be made to thousands of communities across the country over 18 years. Payouts in the Kansas City metropolitan area so far have ranged from $2.4 million to Kansas City, ...
Pain management is an inexact science; there is plenty of blame to go around for the abuse of such drugs. To the Editor: Re “The D.E.A. Should Get Out of Public Health,” by Shravani Durbhakula ...
The US saw a 22% decline in rates of prescription-opioid overdose related emergency department (ED) visits in children 17 and ...
Dr. Gupta is the Drug Policy Director for the White House and he’s say this drug epidemic is a threat like no other. He says ...
YoungBoy Never Broke Again was arrested this week over a “large scale prescription fraud ring,” police claim in a new filing.
The Jasper County prosecutor's office has dismissed a drug-trafficking charge on a Joplin man, citing the unavailability of a key witness for prosecution of the case. Paul G. Haney, 26, was ...
And while the VA has made significant strides in decreasing the number of opioids prescribed to veterans -- dropping the prescription rate a whopping 67% since 2012, going from 874,897 to 288,820 ...
A new additional drug in the fight against the opioid overdose crisis has slowly been making its way across the country and ...