prescription painkillers

There is another opioid crisis happening in the U.S., and it has nothing to do with the overdose epidemic: Hospitals are frequently running out of widely…

The Florida House wants to fight opioid addiction by placing new restrictions on how doctors prescribe painkillers.The House passed a bill 93-22 Thursday…

As lawmakers grapple with how best to combat the nation’s prescription painkiller abuse crisis, a recent survey is shedding light on how patients who get…

Every day, headlines detail the casualties of the nation’s surge in heroin and prescription painkiller abuse: the funerals, the broken families and the…

The Food and Drug Administration is reconsidering whether doctors who prescribe painkillers like OxyContin should be required to take safety training…

Federal health regulators will add their strongest warning labels to the most widely prescribed painkillers, part of a multi-pronged government campaign…

Prescription painkillers should not be a first choice for treating common ailments like back pain and arthritis, according to new federal guidelines…

There’s a prescription drug abuse problem sweeping the United States, but fixing it will require a systematic change focused on how most health…

The growing abuse of prescription painkillers now touches home for a majority of Americans, according to a poll released Tuesday.More than 56 percent of…

Dr. Gregory Gooden of Winter Haven was arrested Thursday on charges he wrote prescriptions for pain pills in exchange for methamphetamine and cash, the…