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.
For years, even as opioid overdose deaths dramatically increased, doctors and other prescribers in the United States needed ...
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 ...
District Court Judge Cindy Volkmer sentenced Brian Wasson to three and a half years to five years and eight months in prison ...
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.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody was in West Palm Beach Wednesday with Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and ...
District Court Judge Cindy Volkmer sentenced former Scottsbluff Police Captain Wasson to 40 to 68 months imprisonment on each ...
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 post-surgical ...
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 ...