Methadone News

Rodney T. Fahrenholtz was indicted on health care fraud charges last month. On Monday, a judge scheduled a December hearing for a plea agreement, which typically means the defendant plans to plead guilty, court records show.

Painkillers like Oxycontin, Vicodin, and Methadone are supposed to be tightly controlled, but the pain pill pipeline in Wisconsin is leaking like a sieve.

The Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation served search warrants on the home and business of Ezell Harris and after recovering thousands of highly-addictive pain killers like Hydrocodone and Oxycodone, the heroin-withdrawal drug Methadone and the anti-anxiety drug Xanax, they arrested him Thursday.

Some say the sweeping reform bill doesn't go far enough to fix a problem doctors say is driving up healthcare bills.

Health care providers, law enforcement officials, and those who deal directly with addiction gathered in Lebanon, N.H., Wednesday to address the misuse of prescription drugs.

Like many teenagers, Michael Lane was tempted into trying cannabis. But over the next 10 years his drug-taking began to spiral out of control until he died from an overdose at the age of just 26.

Dr. Daniel Bender knows how to get rid of aches and pains, but recently he's come across a chronic pain of his own he can't seem to beat - fraudulent prescriptions.

Prescription drug abuse is up more than 20% in Kentucky, and one of the key tools designed to fight it, usually isn't used.

A man held on $300,000 in bonds and his girlfriend are accused of manufacturing meth at a mobile-home park in Long Beach, said Harrison County Sheriff Melvin Brisolara.

Lawyers locked horns yesterday in a Bucks County courtroom over whether marijuana affected a Levittown man's driving, making him culpable for the death of a police officer.

'The reality is that the fastest growing population is white, middle-class kids who are now finding opiates very, very, very attractive,' says harm reduction advocate Mark Kinzly.

Treatment, not incarceration, should be the first option for veterans who commit nonviolent drug-related offenses, a group advocating alternatives to the nation's "war on drugs" said Thursday in a new report.

Federal prosecutors say a southern Illinois doctor has agreed to surrender his medical license after admitting he illegally dispensed methadone, tampered with a witness and obstructed justice.

Portland, Maine-based Aiko Biotechnology says its Phase 1 clinical trial for a drug target to treat side effects of opioid painkillers has shown positive results.

It's the largest drug sweep ever in the state of Kentucky. Police arrested hundreds of people in a massive roundup involving prescription drugs.

Those attending Tuesday night's public forum on the proposed methadone clinic here in Pulaski County were hoping to pepper those responsible with questions about what could be expected.

Sentencing will be early next year for a southwestern Illinois woman who admits selling drugs to a man who later overdosed on them.

A Juniata County man faces charges for homicide and other related offenses after he allegedly supplied another man with drugs that resulted in his death, according to court documents.

Supporters for letting the chronically ill and caregivers obtain medical marijuana have engaged a high-stakes showdown against a disapproving Gov.

Anna Nicole Smith's doctor was feeding her addiction to prescription medications by excessively prescribing opiates, including a drug nicknamed "hospital heroin," a pain management expert testified Tuesday.