Dilaudid, Hydromorphone News

A Geisinger Medical Center registered nurse, who admitted to being addicted to the painkiller Hydromorphone, allegedly signed out an unusual amount of the drug under a specific patient's name, but did not give the patient the drug, from March through Wednesday.

Even though the world has said goodbye to Michael Jackson, the lingering suspicion is now linking his longtime friend Elizabeth Taylor to his alleged prescription-drug overdose.

Jacko, 50, was taking up to THREE powerful narcotic pain relievers at the same time when any more than one is deemed potentially fatal.

FDA officials recently acknowledged the enormity of a task that the agency set for itself in Februarya 'creating a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy, or REMS, to ensure the safe use of long-acting and extended-release opioid drugs.

Michael Jackson's death has lifted a veil on the sinister underbelly of fame, with associates of the pop icon hitting out at celebrity-dazzled doctors who funnel powerful narcotics to the stars.

A medical charity believes Michael Jackson's death may have been down to a deadly drug cocktail similar to the one taken by Heath Ledger.

Michael Jackson was taking a devastating cocktail of drugs that should never have been combined with each other in the weeks before his sudden death, it has emerged.

Home : Features : News : Release of 911 Tape Ends Police Probe of Entertainer's Death Release of 911 Tape Ends Police Probe of Entertainer's Death 26-Jun-2009 Written by: John Winn Las Vegas entertainer Danny Gans died last month.

A Troutville veterinarian known for helping law enforcement officers with seized, neglected animals pleaded guilty Tuesday to possessing a controlled substance without a prescription.

A woman who was to start a drug rehabilitation program has been arrested on charges of burglary of a pharmacy and criminal conspiracy.

An Andalusia couple now faces chemical endangerment charges after they were caught allegedly dealing drugs in the presence of an 8-year-old child.

Covidien 's pharmaceutical products subsidiary Mallinckrodt Inc. has acquired the licensing rights to a drug candidate from Neuromed Pharmaceuticals Ltd in Canada.

Jun 17, 2009 - Covidien , a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced that one of its Pharmaceutical Products subsidiaries has acquired the licensing rights to drug candidate ExalgoTM, Extended-Release Tablets, a formulation of an opioid analgesic from Neuromed Development Inc., a subsidiary of Neuromed Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Neuromed Pharmaceuticals Ltd. announced today that its subsidiary Neuromed Development Inc., has sold the U.S. rights to its lead investigational drug candidate, Exalgo Extended-Release Tablets , to Covidien's subsidiary Mallinckrodt Inc.

LAS VEGAS -- Las Vegas entertainer Danny Gans died accidentally because of a toxic reaction to a pain killer, the Clark County coroner said Tuesday.

City, state and federal law enforcement officers cast a dragnet through Bluefield Friday morning as part of an on-going effort to eliminate illegal drug use, abuse and trafficking from Bluefield.

Dr. Michael Fishell stands in his office Thursday in Henderson. Fishell said the only time he ever prescribed hydromorphone for entertainer Danny Gans was for pain about five years ago.

Experts: Coroner's scenario plausible but too vague to gauge role of prescription painkillers in Gans' death Leila Navidi Encore headliner Danny Gans died May 1, and the coroner's explanation of cause of death, announced more than a month later, has been found lacking by experts.

D anny Gans and Elvis Presley had something else in common, besides dying young.

The Clark County coroner says Las Vegas entertainer Danny Gans died accidentally because of a toxic reaction to a pain killer.