Methadone News

A federal appeals court has upheld the 15-year prison sentence of a Louisiana businessman for distributing oxycodone and methadone in eastern Kentucky illegally through pain clinic patients.

The people who are housed in this institution, Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad, Calif., are having a lot of issues with medical.

For the last two years, I have taught a journalism class at USC. Most of my students are undergraduate sophomores, too young to drink, but not too young to seriously damage their reputation online.

Peaches Geldof was discovered dead from a heroin overdose with a syringe in a sweet box on the floor and a stash of drugs, burnt spoons and needles throughout her countryside family home.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new combination pain pill from the maker of OxyContin that is designed to discourage abuse by painkiller addicts.

Recovering prescription drug addict Jessica Wornkey-Immediato talks about her struggles and the benefits of methadone treatment programs at the Center for Change, 1333 N. Broadway.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. The number of babies born addicted to drugs, including prescription medication has tripled in the last decade.

The 34-year-old man, who does not have a medical marijuana license yet, has been using marijuana medicinally to ease pain and anxiety stemming from a car accident 17 years ago.

There isn't just one road to recovery. Of hundreds of opiates addicts looking to quit in Marion, rarely does chief probation officer Tom Stotts find two who require the same treatment.

For nearly 20 years, Mr. Moore served and protected in multiple positions with both the Toronto Police and Peterborough police.

Indiana doctors are delivering more babies born to mothers who took prescription drugs while pregnant causing them to go through withdrawals.

Heroin, once the top illicit drug trade in prison, has been replaced by the cheaper and easier to smuggle suboxone, which was designed to treat opiate addiction.

The prescription medicine OxyContin is displayed August 21, 2001 at a Walgreens drugstore in Brookline, MA.

Now a handful of niche clinics are opening up to help drug addicted moms get clean and deliver healthy babies.

A Kingston attorney on Friday withdrew his guilty plea in a drug-related Plymouth hit-and-run crash in order to apply for admission into the county's Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program.

She's pregnant, addicted to heroin and behind bars. That's the struggle right now for a woman from Schertz.

LOREN HOLMES / Alaska DispatchAnchorage Treatment Solutions, a new methadone clinic in midtown, is getting ready to open for business in the coming weeks, pending final approvals.

Opioid painkiller use in the US vary greatly by region, with most of the highest-prescribing states being located in the southern part of the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has revealed in a new report .