Xanax, Alprazolam News

In an age when the nation's healthcare costs are out of control and policymakers are trying to find ways to reduce burdens on an already over-taxed healthcare system, an investigation in New York City has found that abuse of prescription anxiety drugs is rising fast, placing an added load on the city's emergency rooms.

Five months later, another one of Wagner's patients - also prescribed a combination of controlled substances - was hospitalized after she suffered a seizure because of Xanax withdrawal.

Utah County sheriff's deputy Jeff Robinson was called out to a home in Eagle Mountain on Sunday where an 18-year-old man had locked his keys in his car.

A 46-year-old Belton woman is accused of supplying the pills that led to the death of a 16-year-old Belton girl.

A suburban Kansas City woman is accused of causing the death of a 16-year-old Belton girl by selling her Xanax hours before she died.

Diane Shafer, 60, faces up to four years in prison after admitting to conspiracy to misuse a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration registration number and to providing prescriptions for pain and anti-anxiety pills to people without examining them or determining they needed such drugs.

It has been nearly four years since medical marijuana use was approved by Michigan voters, and it has taken nearly that long for a protective law regarding operation of motor vehicles to catch up.

Lake Charles, LA On May 18, at approximately 6:00 a.m., Combined Anti-Drug Task Force Detective Cpl.

William Scott Fetzer, 33, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for dragging a Harford County Sheriff's Deputy with a car.

Norma Del Angel Garcia, 53, gave eight Xanax pills to three girls under the age of 17, according to a news release from the San Juan Police Department.

A Brick man was indicted this week on charges he broke into a Bradley Beach home and stole a leaf-blower late last year, documents show.A Police also charged Michael Britton, 25, of Maple Avenue, with unlawful possession of a prescription drug -- alprazolam -- when he was arrested in the borough on Dec.

A rise in prescription drug abuse involving Xanax and similar anti-anxiety pills in recent years has prompted some doctors in the U.S. to rethink the frequency with which they dole out the prescription.

While listening to the drug abuse testimony of one mother-son pair at Stevenson and Buffalo Grove high school's annual drug symposium, Mary Furlong remembered it wasn't too long ago her then 15-year-old son overdosed.

You won't believe what students do to prepare for a test that could spell success or failure for the rest of their lives.

The following is a press release from the office ofA United States Attorney Carmen M. OrtizA District of Massachusetts: A A Stoughton nurse was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday, May 9 for her role in illegally distributing prescription drugs.A U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns sentenced Gladys Ihenacho, 46, a registered nurse, to three ... (more)

A 30-year-old homeless woman is behind bars in Pensacola after attacking her mother inside her home near Northview High School.

It was perhaps fitting that after Patricia Peter gave Monty the cat a new lease on life he should return the favour and save hers.

I've had well over um well, I'm not exactly counting , but it's certainly more than 300 or 400.

Our society places great emphasis on control and fears things that we can't, e.g. anxiety, death.

Thursday, April 26 Zinda Lynn Davis , 55, of Largo, was arrested on the charges of trafficking illegal substance- more than 4 grams ,A VOP organized fraud,A A and withholding information to obtain prescription .