Duragesic, Fentanyl News

BALTIMORE - Fighting a deadly problem. Governor Martin O'Malley recently signed an executive order in a push to prevent the growing number of drug overdoses in Maryland.

This follows reports to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency of these patches accidentally sticking to other people's skin on contact.

Patients using patches containing potent painkillers are being urged to ensure they are thrown away carefully, by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency .

Stephen Nonn says 40-year-old Cleophus Richardson died in May after being found unresponsive in his Wood River home.

TOMS RIVER - Authorities in Ocean County said today they charged a Trenton man with supplying a deadly batch of heroin to a Stafford Township man.

Depomed, Inc. today announced that on July 17, 2014, Judge Joel A. Pisano of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey entered an order preliminarily enjoining Actavis Elizabeth LLC and Actavis Inc. from marketing a generic version of Gralise prior to the Court's issuance of an opinion in the matter.

James McGrady doesn't worry as much about his locally owned pharmacy being robbed or burglarized since he stopped dispensing controlled substances, which include drugs with a potential for abuse or dependence like the pain relievers oxycodone, fentanyl and Vicodin.

In the quiet moments, Darlene Hudson remembers her son will's smile and spirit, seen in the photos that decorate her Albemarle home.

A deadly synthetic opiate is causing new concern, especially in Ocean County where law enforcement officials are already dealing with a heroin epidemic .

Ontario's governing body for dentists is drafting new guidelines for opioids to try to cut down on their over-prescription.

Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 123, Section 35 permits the court to involuntarily commit to an inpatient substance abuse treatment someone whose alcohol or drug use puts themselves or others at risk.

Endo International Plc and BioDelivery Sciences International Inc said their experimental pain drug was found effective in a second late-stage trial.

A rash of opiate overdoses in Montreal has doctors, community workers, public health officials and drug users all very concerned about the possibility heroin is being cut with other, more powerful substances.

New Hampshire doctors are among the nation's most prolific prescribers of Oxycontin and other opioids, according to a government report released Tuesday that analyzed the state-by-state use of highly addictive painkillers.

Single-nucleotide polymorphism in the human mu opioid receptor gene alters I2-endorphin binding and activity: Possible implications for opiate addiction Opioid drugs play important roles in the clinical management of pain, as well as in the development and treatment of drug abuse.

Revenue from sales of Subsys is expected to exceed $52.0 million for the quarter, as compared with $18.5 million during the second quarter of 2013.

Nearly all the heroin that has plagued New England with fatal overdoses in recent months is produced in Colombia and shipped to Mexico, where authorities believe drug cartels add the painkiller fentanyl to make a potent combination destined for the United States, the region's top drug enforcement official said.