State and local governments are receiving billions of dollars in opioid settlements to address ... of aggressively marketing and distributing prescription painkillers. States are required to ...
Two brothers from Connecticut have been charged with trafficking fentanyl and prescription pills received through the mail.
Kyle and Erik Petersen, of Hartford County, are charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, including a new ...
A Sarasota vet was arrested after police said she wrote prescriptions for animals and then picked them up from a pharmacy for ...
While the first wave of opioid overdose deaths was driven by prescription opioids, the second wave by heroin, and the third wave by synthetic opioids, this “fourth wave” is marked by ...
ABC News’ Dr. Jen Ashton discusses how the number of emergency visits among children for prescription opioids ... s fentanyl crisis as fatal synthetic opioid overdoses there have risen 533% ...
Brian Wasson, a former captain with the Scottsbluff Police Department, was sentenced to prison for felony theft of drug ...
Mothers Against Prescription Drug Abuse and Aleve have launched a campaign called The Painful Truth for that very reason. At 12 years old, Matt Robinson was introduced to opioids following an injury.
The number of people living with CF worldwide is now 105,000, up from 70,000 in 2012, according to estimates from US ...
but the researchers say this should not be considered clinically meaningful because it was limited to mothers exposed to more than one opioid prescription, high doses, and over longer time periods ...
Yesterday, New York’s highest appeals court overturned that conviction. My colleague Jodi Kantor on what this ruling means for Weinstein and for the #MeToo movement. It’s Friday, April 26.