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 thing, not something I would be on for the long term. I was young.
Brian Wasson, a former captain with the Scottsbluff Police Department, was sentenced to prison for felony theft of drug ...
State and local governments are receiving billions of dollars in opioid settlements to address the drug crisis that has ravaged America for decades. But instead of spending the money on new ...
The opioid crisis refers to the rapid increase in opioid overuse, misuse, and overdose deaths since the 1990s. It involves both prescription opioids and opioids that people use recreationally.
Fire Capt. Jesse Blaire steered his SUV through the mobile home park until he spotted the little beige house with white trim and radioed to let dispatchers know he’d arrived. At the hospital ...
Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Before Dr. Bobby Mukkamala — an ear, nose, and throat specialist in Michigan — prescribed postsurgical ...
The Federal Trade Commission, which thinks "lack of competition and contracting practices…may be contributing to drug shortages," is soliciting public comments on that subject. But when it comes ...
Trends in pediatric prescription-opioid overdoses in U.S. emergency departments from 2008–2020: An epidemiologic study of pediatric opioid overdose ED visits. PLOS ONE , 2024; 19 (4): e0299163 ...
YoungBoy Never Broke Again was arrested this week over a “large scale prescription fraud ring,” police claim in a new filing.
ABC News’ Dr. Jen Ashton discusses how the number of emergency visits among children for prescription opioids had decreased for a decade but increased between 2019 and 2020. A U.S. citizen has ...
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New details are emerging on why the rapper was arrested earlier this week while under house arrest. By Bill Donahue Utah police are accusing YoungBoy Never Broke Again (aka NBA YoungBoy) of ...