These records provide an unprecedented look at the surge of legal pain pills that fueled the prescription opioid epidemic, which resulted in more than 210,000 overdose deaths during the 14-year ...

Tactics used to persuade U.S. doctors that potent painkillers could be safely prescribed have been used abroad, an ...

Emotion regulation and pain catastrophizing influenced pain severity and interference in patients taking opioid medications for chronic noncancer pain.

Americans filled roughly one opioid pain prescription for every two U.S. adults in 2020—despite a raging opioid epidemic, ...

Another found that middle-aged women who presented with chest pain and other symptoms indicative of heart disease were twice ...

Lollipops, lozenges and mouth sprays containing the addictive drug never should have been approved in the first place. | ...

Two drug distribution companies at one point controlled 60% of the prescription opioid market in the Baltimore area, sending ...

In October of 2005, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent contacted drug distributor McKesson and said the federal agency ...

The School of Dentistry at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) earned the ...

A former DEA opioid investigator testified as Baltimore’s first expert witness in its civil trial against a pair of drug ...

Rutgers Health research finds the medication of grandparents and pets, as well as discarded items, pose unexpected hazards ...

The federal government as well as the drug industry are pumping millions of dollars into research to find pain medication that works as well as opioids but aren't addictive.