OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone News

Now stronger, easier to score and cheaper than other drugs, heroin has made a comeback in Maine over the past year.

At a funeral directors conference on Friday hosted by Scioto County Coroner Dr. Darren Adams, the 2012 drug death statistics in Scioto County were revealed.

The four people in a Bean Station drug store obeyed when a former police officer held them at gunpoint Thursday morning and ordered them to kneel behind a counter, officials said.

Durante, 59, was convicted by a federal jury on Wednesday, May 22, for his role in a scheme that provided prescriptions for more than 70,000 oxycodone pills, according to a release distributed by the United States Attorney District of New Jersey.

A federal judge in Delaware has refused to alter the 20-year prison sentence he gave a former pharmacist who illegally distributed 45,000 Oxycodone pain pills.

Her sons used marijuana, methamphetamine , and also injected the prescription drug Oxycontin.

A dying man's friend who helped him after his leg was amputated is accused of stealing his Oxycodone and Opana prescriptions and fabricating them to receive dozens of pain medication doses for his own use, according to a statewide grand jury presentment.

Jefferson County osteopath Kevin Clemmer pleaded guilty to illegally distributing oxycodone, a synthetic opiate, in U.S. District Court in Denver on Thursday.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the total number of painkillers prescribed in a single year could medicate every adult living in the U.S. around the clock.

The following hearings took place Tuesday before Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III.

STERLING – A local doctor accused of illegally dispensing drugs that led to the deaths of at least 3 people hired a physician to issue prescriptions when he was absent, federal prosecutors say.

More New Yorkers find themselves addicted to doctor-prescribed narcotics, and increasingly the city is treating the problem as a public health crisis.

Detective Daniel Walsh received information on March 25 that drugs were being sold out of the home, police said.

Ninth Judicial District Attorney General Russell Johnson told the Knoxville News Sentinel three of the four counties in his district have overcrowded jails, largely because of an increase in women being arrested.

A Mebane man pleaded guilty last week to selling drugs near Williams High School and to being a habitual felon Malcolm Devon Blue, 25, of East Oakwood Street, Mebane, pleaded guilty May 14 to manufacturing, selling, delivering or possessing a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school, two counts of possession with intent to sell/deliver ... (more)

Police discovered 50 M-80 type explosives in a Belmont home they searched after allegedly catching a resident with several pounds of pot and hundreds of pain pills, authorities said Monday.

When 24-year-old Caitlin Acosta of Falls Church, Va., was just 12 she reached into the family medicine cabinet and changed her life forever.

The doctor admitted there were clues that he was working at a Fort Lauderdale pill mill - his salary went up 400 percent, the "chaotic" waiting room overflowed with patients from out of town and he was told to give everyone the maximum number of pain pills.

An Acworth woman who worked at the Baker Road CVS Pharmacy has admitted to stealing thousands of prescription pills from her job and selling them.

Minnesota doctors say prescription drug abuse is a severe problem in the state and they often feel caught between patients who need pain medication and those who say they should do more to curb abuse.