Duragesic, Fentanyl News

Bill Parker, father of Kristen Parker, center, and other family members leave federal court Thursday afternoon.

Health Canada is advising medical workers to be cautious when prescribing a pain-relief patch that accidentally sent a child to hospital last year.

The lessons Rose Medical Center must now learn about drug theft already have been learned by Boulder Community Hospital.

Kristen Diane Parker was apparently willing to do almost anything to get her hands on fentanyl, a potent painkiller used in surgery.

A Virginia Beach psychiatrist has agreed to an indefinite suspension of his medical license by the Virginia Board of Medicine, which accused him of inappropriately prescribing powerful narcotics to patients with chronic pain.

Patients potentially exposed to Hepatitis C at the Audubon Surgery Center are speaking out to NEWSCHANNEL 13 .

A former hospital employee may have exposed hundreds, or even thousands, of surgical patients to hepatitis C after taking their fentanyl injections and replacing them with used syringes filled with saline solution, authorities say.

Four western New York deaths in the last two months are being blamed on the drug Fentanyl.

Police reportedly found 20 types of drugs in Michael Jackson's Los Angeles mansion, including the heroin substitute methadone.

Some 1,000 Colorado Springs surgery patients may be at risk of contracting Hepatitis-C, due to the alleged actions of a former surgery nurse.

A Buncombe County man will spend at least 29 months in prison for a supplying a powerful prescription drug that killed a man.

A LeRoy woman is charged in the death of an unidentified 53-year-old woman who died last March.

The administrator of a deceased man's estate has filed suit against a major drug manufacturer, alleging he died after he was exposed to a lethal amount of fentanyl through a prescribed pain patch.

Coroner Duane Northrup announced yesterday that the cause of Jay Bennett's death was an overdose of the pain killer fentanyl, according to the Chicago Sun Times .

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.

A powerful painkiller stolen from a Cambridgeshire home could kill anyone who overdoses, police have warned.

A Massachusetts author has sued Elisabeth Hasselbeck , accusing the cohost of ABC's "The View'' of plagiarism.

What do Michael Jackson, actor Heath Ledger and about 400 West Virginians a year have in common? Their deaths are all linked to overdoses of prescription painkillers such as oxycodone, methadone, or fentanyl.

Almost a month after former Wilco multi-instrumentalist Jay Bennett was found dead in his home of undetermined causes, an Illinois coroner said the musician died of an accidental overdose of painkillers, according to media reports.

An Illinois coroner said Wilco songwriter Jay Bennett died of an accidental overdose from a fentanyl painkiller patch.