Duragesic, Fentanyl News

Narcotic diversion in EMS is in the headlines again with allegations being reported in both Michigan and Oklahoma in the past two weeks.

MEDICATED lollipops given to cancer patients for pain relief are suspected of being used by heroin addicts to get a greater high.

The number of fatal poisonings involving opioid painkillers more than tripled from 1999 to 2006, from 4,000 to 13,800 in one year, according to a new report from the CDC.

Fentanyl lollipops, easy addiction? Last night's Season Eight Premiere of Intervention presented "Linda," the case of a woman with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome who is addicted to opiate-laden "lollipops." She became addicted to the "relief" that the painkiller gave her, and even with her mental health deteriorating and her teeth literally falling out of ...

It's interesting -- if a little obvious -- that a medium as omnipresent and ordinary as television rarely presents everyday life.

Bob Stiles can be reached via e-mail or at 724-836-6622. By Bob Stiles TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, November 29, 2009 Americans seem to have a fixation with pain medicine.

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The Pennsylvania Attorney General announced today the arrests of four nurses who worked for the Lehigh Valley Health Network.

From left: Tracy Goetter, Lisa Citrola, Christopher Evans and Krista Lichtenberger are four LVHN nurses arrested for allegedly stealing drugs from the hospital.

A PHARMACIST who illegally gave her friend painkillers 100 times stronger than morphine has been jailed for a year.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - November 25, 2009 -- Four nurses, who worked for the Lehigh Valley Health network, are facing a number of drug charges.

An autopsy confirms that a man found unconscious on a Greyhound bus two hours after being discharged from Cherry Hospital died after ingesting a prescription painkiller given to him by the state psychiatric facility.

An autopsy shows a North Carolina man just discharged from a state psychiatric hospital died from a massive overdose of a painkiller given to him by the facility.

The husband of a woman who died when a Duragesic patch failed, causing her death, has filed suit in Grundy County Circuit Court.

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Sheriff Larry Waller has announced that preliminary crime lab results on four unexplained deaths had been called into his office.

Investigators say a paramedic stole potent pain relievers and replaced them with saline solution.

In just four days, four people in rural Lamar County died ofA legal drugs prescribed for them.

Lawyers for a military nurse charged with three counts of murder said they'll expose deficiencies at Wilford Hall Medical Center while proving their client is innocent.

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that, driven by the continued dominance of opioids that include immediate-release morphine and novel fast acting opioid reformulations, the cancer pain drug market will increase from $2.3 billion in 2008 to $3.7 billion in 2018 ...