OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone News

Detectives with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office think the same man is responsible for robbing three pharmacies in the same neighborhood.

The US Food and Drug Administration may soon ask doctors to undergo special training to be able to prescribe powerful narcotics, Dr.

Marijuana, cocaine, methamph-etamine and Ecstacy. These are the drugs that most likely come to mind when hearing the word "addiction." But some addictive drugs come straight from a prescription bottle.

Pain Therapeutics, Inc. and King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today presented the final data set of a previously announced pivotal Phase III study of REMOXYA , an investigational drug to treat chronic pain.

A 19-year-old Kalamazoo man has been charged in the drug-overdose death of Brent Tuttle last October in Comstock Township, authorities said Tuesday morning.

Attorney General Tom Corbett today announced that agents from the Attorney General's Bureau of Narcotics Investigation have filed criminal charges against an Erie pharmacist accuse of stealing prescription pain ...

Methadone is the fastest growing cause of narcotic-related deaths in the U.S., the result of a sharp increase in use complicated by physician prescribing errors, according to the New York Times .

An undetermined amount of the prescription pain medication Oxycontin was taken in a break into Ocean Pharmacy, on Old Post Road, just after midnight yesterday, the police said.

Methadone, once used mainly in addiction treatment centers to replace heroin, is being given out by family doctors, osteopaths and nurse practitioners for throbbing backs, joint injuries and a host of other ...

By Patrick McCreless PATRICKM@CULLMANTIMES.COM Cullman narcotics investigators arrested two local senior citizens last week for allegedly drug dealing with their own prescription pain medication.

Four people are now facing federal drug trafficking charges after a drug raid in Huntington, West Virginia.

A Pownal man could face up to 16 years in prison if he's convicted on charges after police said he sold an oxycodone pill to a 14-year-old. Joseph M. Cascione, 23, pleaded not guilty to felony charges of ...

Three people are in custody in connection with three separate crimes in Claiborne County.

A Missoula man who robbed a pharmacy of the narcotic painkiller oxycodone was sentenced Tuesday to five years in the Montana State Prison without parole, three years in the custody of the Department of ...

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Authorities have returned a man to local custody in connection with the death of his friend Friday evening during a situation that allegedly progressed from robbery to nearly a double homicide.

There is never a shortage of prescription pills on the street in Onslow County.While cocaine and marijuana sources run dry from time to time, the supply of prescription pills seems endless, said narcotics ...

The State Attorney said county employees pushed pills as a side job, but their main job was to take care of our kids.

Prosecutors can look into more than 3,000 seized medical files for patient names and addresses, a judge ruled this morning, advancing the sweeping investigation of a pediatrician arrested for alleged ...

Police and sheriff's deputies are looking for a man they say robbed at least five Tucson retailers at gunpoint to obtain more than 1,000 doses of OxyContin, a narcotic painkiller that is highly addictive.