Dilaudid, Hydromorphone News

A woman identified as a Walgreens pharmacy technician worker was arrested Wednesday after being accused of stealing nearly 12,000 pills from the pharmacy and of concocting a ruse to enter a woman's home and take her pills, according to records released Thursday.

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A Cookeville man was arrested recently for allegedly selling illegal drugs and doing so near a daycare center.

The US FDA has issued a warning about Hospira's Carpuject prefilled cartridges after batches were found containing more than twice the amount of recommended dosage.

Residents in Margaretsville were disheartened Friday morning when they awoke to bold black and blue graffiti sprayed on the wharf and the giant granite bolders piled up to protect the historic structure.

An overfill problem that recently prompted the recall of a single lot of hydromorphone injection has been determined to affect up to 280 lots of 15 injectable medications packaged in Hospira's Carpuject syringe system.

The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office Drug Task Force, which includes members of the Venice and North Port police departments, arrested four people in connection with the illegal sale of prescription pills outside a Venice pharmacy Monday afternoon.

Hospira Inc . has issued a recall for one lot of a pain injection after receiving reports that the product contains more medication than what is labeled.

Hit the ground with your heel, rolling forward onto the ball of your foot. As you lift your foot off the ground, push off with the front of your foot.

The Cape Breton Regional Police have recovered dozens of bottles of Methadone that they say was stolen from Sexton's Drugstore in Sydney Mines early Friday morning.

SAN DIEGO, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Millennium Research Institute , a nonprofit national research center formed in 2010, and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego announced today five scientific articles co-authored by UCSD doctoral pharmacy students have been accepted by the ... (more)

Cross-contamination can occur when different foods are stored or prepared together.

Michael Lee Rogers was sentenced this afternoon to four concurrent terms of 15 months each for possession of Oxycodone, Hydromorphone, cocaine and marijuana for the purposes of trafficking.

Nodding off may be okay while you're chaperoning a kiddy movie or at your mother-in-law's birthday party, but not when you're behind the wheel.

WASHINGTON &#8212 Federal regulators are warning doctors in an online posting that one lot of injectable painkillers from Hospira may contain too much of the drug.

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Just days before the May-June session of the Bolivar County Second Judicial District Court was set to begin on Monday, five people that were indicted by the grand jury to stand trial entered guilty pleas this week.

Just days before the May-June session of the Bolivar County Second Judicial District Court was set to begin on Monday, five people that were indicted by the grand jury to stand trial entered guilty pleas this week.

A federal magistrate judge has scheduled a preliminary hearing for Thursday afternoon for a Mercer County man named in a 4-count federal indictment charging him with distribution of hydromorphone.

British Columbia is reporting a shortage of medications and that is a directly caused by the slowdown in production at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals in Montreal.