OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone News

A local dentist is in jail, accused of trading prescriptions for crack cocaine. The investigation into Dr.

Tim King sent me the following news article last night about a break-in to rob OxyContin at a Walgreens south of Portland.

Ohio pharmacists filled 2.7 million prescriptions in 2008 for high-powered painkillers such as OxyContin and Percocet, narcotics that contain oxycodone; that's nearly one for every four people in the state.

1 in 4 Troops admit abusing prescription drugs within a one-year period. 1 in 10 High school seniors say they've abused Vicodin.

A man is on the run after robbing the Murrells Inlet CVS store at about 12:25 a.m. Wednesday.

A former Maytag repairman was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday for stealing 200 prescription pain pills while he was fixing a stove.

CALGARY a ' After serving 40 days in prison, Karie Anne Casper says she thought her worst days were behind her.

The Williamson Police Department arrested two men who appear to be part of a - pill pipeline' that supplied prescription medication for sale in Pike and Mingo Counties.

Transdermal oxycodone represents a significant advance in the treatment of chronic pain; Phosphagenics aims to become the first company to offer an oxycodone patch that will provide sustained pain relief Phosphagenics Limited today announced positive results from a Phase 1b clinical study using the Company's patented TPM for the transdermal ...

Marijuana has been illegal in the US for decades. While most of the use of marijuana in this country is for recreation, marijuana has been shown to have medical value including helping people who suffer from chronic pain.

Seven Angus residents and a minor from Stayner were arrested on Jan. 20 for possessing about $1,000 worth of drugs.

Sixteen suspects were rounded up Thursday during a series of early morning drug raids led by St.

The Charlotte County Sheriff's Street Crimes Unit made a routine traffic stop in Englewood last night that resulted in the arrest of two people involving numerous drugs and recovery of stolen property out of Cape Coral.

Criminals looking for drugs - particularly OxyContin - are to blame for an alarming trend of violent home invasions in this southwestern Ontario city, police say.

An eight-month city narcotics investigation -- assisted by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration -- ended Wednesday afternoon in a supermarket parking lot when a city man was arrested on 29 drug charges.

A Stafford County woman was convicted in federal court Wednesday of illegally selling pain medication pills from her home in England Run North and elsewhere.

A Destin physician, David Willis Webb, 68, was sentenced Thursday to life imprisonment for distribution of and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances resulting in death.

Faced with one of the highest fatal overdose rates in the country, the West Virginia Senate introduced a brace of legislation Wednesday aimed at curbing the state's problem with prescription drugs.

Older adults who take powerful prescription painkillers known as opioids face an increased risk of bone fractures, especially at moderately high medication doses, a new study finds.

Clovis police are looking for a man who allegedly robbed a Walgreen's drugstore at Villa and Shaw avenues about 6:45 p.m. Tuesday.