OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone News

These are threats that potential abusers of drugs need to take into account when they consider the substances they may put into their bodies.We're talking about the abuse of prescription drugs and the proliferation of synthetic drugs.

The mastermind behind a multimillion-dollar Jacksonville pill mill operation that illegally sold painkillers to thousands, including a man who later died from an overdose, pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to a drug conspiracy charge.

A Chattanooga doctor accused of running a "pill mill" faces a 105-count federal indictment that includes charges of health care fraud, income tax evasion, money laundering and using a firearm in the operation of a criminal enterprise.

The state's crackdown on pill mills has created some unintended consequences, according to one Englewood woman.

Ex-cop John Becker caused at least one on-duty vehicle crash during the time he admitted to using informants to obtain drugs for him, according to police accident reports.

Two out-of-towners last week were indicted by a Superior Court grand jury on prescription fraud charges stemming from separate incidents in Belmar and other nearby towns in which authorities allege they forged prescription blanks to obtain oxycodone, documents show.A Nancy B. Sileo, 51, of Oaklyn, and Michael McIlwain, 26, of Oreland, Penn., are ... (more)

BUFFALO, N.Y. Dr. Raul Vazquez from Urban Family Practice stopped by Channel 7's "Eyewitness News This Morning" Tuesday to address the issues of prescription painkillers.

The misuse of prescription opiate drugs in Thurston County and the state, which began in 1995 and got steadily worse over the next 16 years, is finally being addressed in a serious way by the Legislature and physician regulators.

The Barrie police street crime drug unit raided a Stanley Street home Sunday night and collected Oxycodone and Fentanyl, pain medication drugs that were allegedly being sold to the public.

Experts say Ohio is in the middle of a prescription pill epidemic. In fact, the number of people dying from overdoses now exceeds those of heroin and cocaine combined.

A Westwood Drive resident said someone took a bag of prescription medication off of his fridge on May 11.

Diverted for non-medical use ... there has been an explosion in prescriptions for opiods, benzodiazepines and codeine-containing analgesics.

First, let's stipulate that addiction to painkillers is a disease. It's not a moral failing or a character flaw.

Last year, the Virginia Board of Medicine suspended the medical licence of Cheek, who earlier was convicted of Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

The indictment alleges that the 63-year-old Cheek distributed oxycodone, methadone, morphine and hydrocodone without holding a valid Drug Enforcement Administration certificate.

A Boca Raton man arrested last week on accusations he was running a pill mill in Maryland may be the vice president of a Deerfield Beach clinic that was raided by the DEA last year.

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David Kidd II, the leader of an organization that was responsible for the sale of hundreds of thousands of illegal prescription pills in the Ohio Valley, pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday.

A mini-stroke left New Bern police officer Frances Sutton suspended from duty and facing drug charges .

Three men who alleged operated an interstate "pill pipeline," which authorities say was responsible for selling 200,000 pain pills last year in Pike County, have been arrested under a federal drug conspiracy indictment.