By Alyssa Vu There is a silent but deadly force terrorizing the nation. It does not discriminate between man or woman, rich or poor. It starts out as an invited guest, turns into a close friend, and ...

A judge could decide Friday whether to advance OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's $7 billion-plus plan to settle thousands of ...

The Modesto Narcotics Enforcement Team and the FBI arrested four people in a joint investigation for allegedly trafficking ...

Jenna Ternan “abused her trusted role” as a licensed pharmacist when she arranged for approximately 22,000 oxycodone pills to be illegally sold on the streets of Saskatoon. “(Her ...

Prosecutors accused Dr. Daniel Alberto Carpman of “masquerading in a lab coat as a drug dealer” who made millions off prescribing mind-boggling numbers of Oxycodone pills to patients who sold ...

When longtime South Florida doctor Daniel Alberto Carpman was arrested two years ago, federal authorities accused him of writing thousands of the same Oxycodone prescriptions for elderly patients ...

A study of opioid levels in wastewater has found the use of oxycodone halved in 2019 and 2020 and remained stable since. Researchers believe the reduction is linked to national changes in ...

Oxycodone use then decreased from 120 mg/day/1,000 people in August 2019 to 65 mg/day/1,000 people in December 2020. This 45% decrease coincided with the introduction of prescribing guidelines in ...

What Is the Difference Between Hydrocodone and Oxycodone? Hydrocodone and oxycodone (Oxycontin) are both pain relievers. But both are a type of painkiller called an opioid, which can be addiction ...

Now, scientists have identified an area of the brain that plays a key role in stress-induced oxycodone relapse. Their findings explain why the drug suvorexant, which they previously found to ...