Vicodin, Acetaminophen/Hydrocodone News

Where has the last 6 years of my life gone? The worst part of it all started in May, 2006 shortly after I was referred to a pain clinic for some of my MS and other related aches and pains.

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Police recently arrested a Smyrna man who is said to be a major pill supplier to addicts in the Davidson County area.

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed an amendment to the FDA's Safety and Innovation Act yesterday, reclassifying drugs containing hydrocodone as schedule II substances.

U.S. senators on Wednesday evening unanimously passed an amendment to a Food and Drug Administration reauthorization bill that would reclassify all hydrocodone substances and make punishment for their trafficking more severe.

Drug overdose death rates have more than tripled in the U.S. since 1990, and a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attributes more than half of those deaths to prescription painkillers.

Daniel Lamont Hatten, 30, pleaded guilty Monday to two charges stemming from an August 10, 2010 incident that led to the murder of 67-year-old Johnny McArthur Bullock, who owned Bullock's Kennel in Pascagoula.

Tonight, House, M.D., the iconic medical show, draws to a close. If you've been living in an opiate-induced haze, the show followed a Sherlock-Holmes-like doctor at a major, fictional Princeton, N.J., hospital who has an uncanny knack for sifting through a dizzying array of weird symptoms to diagnose and save the patients no other physician could.

Hugh Laurie and his dying best friend, played by Robert Sean Leonard, go on a road trip in the series finale.

Anticipating Joseph Wagner would bolt for the Dominican Republic where he was supposed to marry a prostitute, the FBI arrested the 62-year-old chiropractor earlier this week, charging him with dispensing controlled substances and health care fraud, federal investigators said Friday.

In this image released by Fox, Hugh Laurie portrays Dr. Gregory House in a scene from the first season finale of "House, M.D." The Fox medical drama concludes its eight-season run on Monday, May 21, 2012, with a finale at 9 p.m. EDT, preceded by a one-hour retrospective.

The saga of Gary Wilcox's Vicodin addiction began in 2007 when he had surgery for a gastric bypass and was prescribed the drug.

Real estate agent Kyle Rovinsky learned that first-hand after showing a high-end home in Frisco.

A 30-year-old Erie woman who pleaded guilty to stealing more than 80,000 tablets of the painkiller Vicodin from a local pharmacy altered computer records to help hide the thefts, a top drug agent said.

SALT LAKE CITY - A new study shows Americans use more than 80% of the addictive pain pills made in the world.

A former pharmacy technician at a Millcreek Township supermarket has pleaded guilty to stealing more than 80,000 pills of the painkiller Vicodin and conspiring with her husband to traffic in them.

Americans consume 80 percent of the world's supply of painkillers -- more than 110 tons of pure, addictive opiates every year -- as the country's prescription drug abuse epidemic explodes.

A Boulder police officer charged with attempted murder after he was accused of threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend has been arrested again.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Oxycodone, Vicodin and Lortab. They are all heavy hitting pain killers often prescribed to someone after a surgery or serious accident.

Americans consume 80 percent of the world's supply of painkillers -- more than 110 tons of pure, addictive opiates every year -- as the country's prescription drug abuse epidemic explodes.