Some doctors are calling it the new crack cocaine — drug abusers are getting high by smoking the powerful painkiller OxyContin.
Scientists are hunting new ways to help millions of pain sufferers _ from addiction-resistant narcotics to using brain scanners for biofeedback _ amid a worrisome rise in abuse of today's top prescription…
A controlled buy of two tablets led to an arrest and confiscation of more than 300 pills Thursday night in Chattaroy.
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As family members await toxicology reports on a 34-year-old professional wrestler, one of his childhood friends says he thinks he knows all too well what killed him.
When he tried to quit using OxyContin, heroin and other opiates cold turkey, the pain was so great he felt it in the marrow of his bones, says Ken S., a patient in Charleston County's methadone program.
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A Florida man speaks out about his drug abuse as he alleges to be a former patient of the doctor accused as the ringleader in the trafficking of illegal prescription drugs into six Kentucky counties, including…
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Heroin addiction in New York, which ravaged city neighborhoods in the 1970s, has been creeping up again, officials said.
FDA has granted final approval for Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories's Abbreviated New Drug Application for Phentermine Hydrochloride Tablets USP, 37.5 mg.
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By Mohd Nasir Yusof JAKARTA, Nov 18 — The Indonesian Drug and Food Monitoring Agency has launched a major crackdown on sex stimulants.
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Two of the most interest ing periods of the year for World Wrestling Entertainment is the buildup and heavy promotion toward its flagship pay-per-view event WrestleMania and the uncertainty of what happens next after WrestleMania.
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