Duragesic, Fentanyl News

The Pennsylvania Attorney General announced today the arrests of four nurses who worked for the Lehigh Valley Health Network.

From left: Tracy Goetter, Lisa Citrola, Christopher Evans and Krista Lichtenberger are four LVHN nurses arrested for allegedly stealing drugs from the hospital.

A PHARMACIST who illegally gave her friend painkillers 100 times stronger than morphine has been jailed for a year.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - November 25, 2009 -- Four nurses, who worked for the Lehigh Valley Health network, are facing a number of drug charges.

An autopsy confirms that a man found unconscious on a Greyhound bus two hours after being discharged from Cherry Hospital died after ingesting a prescription painkiller given to him by the state psychiatric facility.

An autopsy shows a North Carolina man just discharged from a state psychiatric hospital died from a massive overdose of a painkiller given to him by the facility.

The husband of a woman who died when a Duragesic patch failed, causing her death, has filed suit in Grundy County Circuit Court.

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Sheriff Larry Waller has announced that preliminary crime lab results on four unexplained deaths had been called into his office.

Investigators say a paramedic stole potent pain relievers and replaced them with saline solution.

In just four days, four people in rural Lamar County died ofA legal drugs prescribed for them.

Lawyers for a military nurse charged with three counts of murder said they'll expose deficiencies at Wilford Hall Medical Center while proving their client is innocent.

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that, driven by the continued dominance of opioids that include immediate-release morphine and novel fast acting opioid reformulations, the cancer pain drug market will increase from $2.3 billion in 2008 to $3.7 billion in 2018 ...

Jeanie Scott had been drinking when she put on a pain patch and died hours later of an overdose, according to the Tuscaloosa Police Department's account of events that occurred almost a year ago.

Published: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 11:21 p.m. TUSCALOOSA A Tuscaloosa man has been accused of giving a University of Alabama student a narcotic pain patch before she overdosed and died last year.

After Special Agent Douglas Collier of the Drug Enforcement Administration spoke at a conference on the abuse of prescription drugs, a sobbing woman came up to him and told of her daughter's near death from an overdose of the painkiller fentanyl.

A woman convicted of fraudulently obtaining pain management medication from three residents of the Alverno Health Care Facility in Clinton will serve probation instead of prison time for the offenses.

Fentanyl Pain Patch comes in various dosage amounts. Use wisely. Nancy The Fentanyl Transdermal Pain Patch or Duragesic Patch is commonly prescribed by doctors to treat moderately to severe pain in patients.

All three drugs produced a rapid decrease in pain scores as assessed using a visual linear analogue, morphine being the least effective.

A member of the Lincoln County Commissioners was arrested Wednesday for purchasing a controlled substance.