As opioid pain medications continue being prescribed for chronic and severe pain, understanding their risks becomes ...

Drug abusers could no longer be referred to as an “addict” in New York State, according to a proposal tucked into Gov. Kathy ...

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil complaint against Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA) and its ...

Former SJ police union employee gets probation for drug distribution conviction Critics say the sentence is a slap on the ...

In it, the government accuses Walgreens of filling millions of unlawful prescriptions, including for excessive quantities of ...

The Justice Department has filed a civil lawsuit against Walgreens, accusing the 124-year-old pharmacy chain of dispensing ...

President Trump rescinded an executive order that prompted the creation of three Medicare drug-pricing experiments ...

The number of 311 reports of discarded needles has surged since the city ended a popular needle-buyback program.

She's not alone. Yearly, over 100,000 people die from drug overdose deaths in the United States, with almost 70% of these deaths caused by fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Throughout the ...

Over the last two decades, opioid painkillers have been blamed for more than 500,000 deaths in the US. Big drugstore chains ...

Cebranopadol, a dual-NMR agonist, reached the primary endpoint in a Phase III trial and matched placebo for safety, a ...