Duragesic, Fentanyl News

A powerful form of heroin began moving through Hampton Roads this winter, causing a surge in overdoses, according to state officials and local doctors.

Fentanyl, the powerful prescription pain killer that's shown up in a recent batch of heroin for what's believed to be the first time in Cleveland, has likely killed again.

Five arrests in Connecticut have been linked to a tainted form of heroin responsible for an alarming death toll throughout the Northeast.

A Butte man has been sentenced to nearly 19 years in federal prison for selling a prescription pain relieving patch to a man who died of an overdose in December 2012.

"We executed a series of transactions that cement our position as a leading specialty pharmaceutical company in pain and neurology.

Depomed, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Mallinckrodt plc's New Drug Application for XARTEMIS XR Extended-Release Tablets , previously known as MNK-795, for the management of acute pain severe enough to require opioid treatment and in patients for whom alternative treatment options are ineffective, not ... (more)

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder spoke out on Monday, calling the rise in overdose deaths from heroin and prescription opioids an "urgent public health crisis."

Since a rash of overdoses on the city's West Side last week left two dead, investigators have been working to track down the source of a deadly heroin concoction laced with the super-strength pain killer fentanyl.

The prescribed version of fentanyl is dangerous enough if used incorrectly. There have been local cases where young people ate fentanyl patches, which are meant to treat severe pain in cancer patients.

Cleveland men accused of pushing a deadly mixture of heroin and fentanyl linked to a fatal overdose appeared in court Monday on involuntary manslaughter charges, after a third man was arrested in connection with the case Friday.

Most patients with multiple defects of the cytochrome P450 system, which is largely responsible for metabolizing opioids, naturally gravitated toward an opioid regimen primarily metabolized through the cytochrome P450 3A4 enzyme or a non-cytochrome, metabolic pathway, a new study suggests.

In a 24-hour period Thursday to Friday, first responders answered calls for 15 drug overdoses, the city's fire chief said.

WODONGA police have charged a Border man with trafficking the deadly painkiller fentanyl in a ground-breaking development in the fight against its abuse.

The prescribed version of fentanyl is dangerous enough if used incorrectly. There have been local cases where young people ate fentanyl patches, which are meant to treat severe pain in cancer patients.

Today, Analysts Review released its analysts' notes regarding INSYS Therapeutics, Inc. , Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. , Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. , Air Methods Corp. , and AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. .

Opioids are a family of pain medications chemically related to opium and heroin.

The looming threat of fentanyl - and its ability to give heroin a potent and even deadlier kick - has hit local streets.

The company, which gets most of its sales from breakthrough pain treatment Subsys, has soared more than 700% in the past year.

The Cuyahoga County medical examiner has issued a warning for heroin useres: he is seeing cases in which fentanyl is substituted for heroin with deadly consequences.

A webcast of the presentation can be accessed via the Investor Relations page of the Depomed website at www.depomed.com .