Duragesic, Fentanyl News

While it may be a while before we learn the exact cause of Whitney Houston's death, the leading theory is that she fell asleep in the bathtub after taking Xanax .

They can't wear long sleeves in the operating room, which would hide the track marks on their arms, so they inject the drugs into less visible veins in their legs, thighs or the folds between their toes.

At the Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre, his jail cell in solitary confinement was located right across the hallway from Wayne Kellestine's. Casey, not his real name, thinks authorities might have put him close to the Bandido's member faced with eight counts of first-degree murder, and who constantly ranted about violent acts, for a reason.

The first class-wide risk evaluation and mitigation strategies program for the transmucosal immediate-release fentanyl class of medications was approved in December by the Food and Drug Administration and will be administered by RelayHealth and McKesson Specialty Health.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. - A mother talks about the dangers of Fentanyl, after her son overdoses on the drug.A Her son died last March, and only used the drug one time.

Fentanyl, along with Opana, are the two drugs being requested by suspects in the several pharmacies robberies in recent weeks.

BACKGROUND: Neonatal withdrawal syndrome or neonatal abstinence syndrome is when a group of problems occur in a newborn that was exposed to drug abuse in the womb.

Prescription painkillers are legal, often easy to get, and statistics show they are more deadly than heroin, cocaine and even car crashes.

Campbell Co., VA Fentanyl patches are made specifically for people with high levels of pain and are often prescribed to patients in their last stages of life.

A Hyde Park, Cache County, man is suing the pharmaceutical company ALZA, saying his wife was killed by a defective painkilling patch.

The family of a late Hyde Park woman has sued a pharmaceutical company, claiming it made a faulty pain-relief patch that caused her death.

We are learning more about the charges involved in a prescription drug death in Lancaster County that claimed the life of an 18-year-old woman.

If Fentanyl doesn't work out hydromorphone is often the drug of choice for severe pain.

The sister of an Old Town hot dog vendor who died last year after she allegedly gave him a prescription painkiller turned herself in Thursday at the Monroe County Detention Center.

We are learning more about the charges involved in a prescription drug death in Lancaster County that claimed the life of an 18-year-old woman.

A Key West woman was charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter in the Aug. 30 death of her brother.

After several deaths in southern Sweden have been linked to the use the drug fentanyl, a pain-relief patch meant for cancer patients, local police are now calling it the 'most serious drug problem' in the area.