Percocet, Acetaminophen/Oxycodone News

On Jan. 12, 2011, Karen Grant, a great-great grandmother from Akron, met with a man to sell him pain pills.

DANBURY, Conn. -- Matt Cote is recovering after undergoing surgery following a car crash.

FOR the past few months the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been warning that America is facing an "epidemic" of prescription-drug abuse .

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

Danbury, Conn. - Repeated rejections by three insurance companies led to Dr. David Kloth to intervene in Matt Cote's case.

Edwin A. Njoku, 52, of 589 Burnside Ave., faces charges including first-degree sexual assault and bribery of a witness.

"We see that all the time," Woodstock Police Services deputy Chief Daryl Longworth explains.

A rash of pharmacy burglaries in Jonesboro over the last month or so calls more attention to the latest trend in drug abuse - the abuse of prescription drugs obtained illegally.

New Hampshire has one of the worst prescription drug abuse problems in the country.

But there she was all the same, turning herself into the authorities, washing her nursing career down the drain, after she was caught stealing drugs from the hospital where she worked.

A US teenager found herself in big trouble after repeatedly texting a policeman asking him to buy drugs from her.

Vicodin. Percocet. OxyContin. You might recognize these names: they're all narcotic painkillers.

A teenager unintentionally offered to sell drugs to a policeman by mistake after sending a text message to the wrong number, authorities say.

A multiple sclerosis drug made by industry giant Novartis is under investigation after at least 11 patients taking the medicine died.

Two men face charges of trafficking in prescription pills after RCMP searched a home in Eskasoni First Nation on Sunday morning.