The Iowa Board of Pharmacy has revoked the license of a pharmacy technician convicted of stealing 600 doses of opioid pain ...
Cass County just received more money to help fight the opioid crisis thanks to a national settlement, and the county wants to ...
A physician from Toms River, N.J., was sentenced to two years in prison and barred from practicing medicine for unlawfully distributing opioids.
Dr. Ndubuisi Joseph Okafor, a 64-year-old physician from Upper Marlboro, Maryland, has been indicted on 29 counts in a ...
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 ...
The US saw a 22% decline in rates of prescription-opioid overdose related emergency department (ED) visits in children 17 and ...
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 ...
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 ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A West Tennessee nurse practitioner convicted of illegally prescribing opioids was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of ...
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 ...
BOSTON, April 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has lost its bid to convince a federal appeals court to break with its counterparts in other circuit courts and rule that a defendant's ...
Police alleged the pharmacy worker admitted that while at work she would place the pills into the trash and retrieve them ...