Methadone News

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Heroin, once the top illicit drug trade in prison, has been replaced by the cheaper and easier to smuggle suboxone, which was designed to treat opiate addiction.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

"Hundreds of thousands of veterans are struggling with chronic pain, drug dependency, mental health conditions, and homelessness.

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.

Tricia Harte joined NewsCenter 16 in May 2013 as the Elkhart Bureau reporter. Her stories are featured on WNDU's 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m. newscasts throughout the week.

The civil law office of Harrison Davis Steakley Morrison, P.C. is venturing on an impressive crusade throughout the nation, handling cases involving the accidental intoxication of the drug methadone that have handed them verdicts and settlements worth millions of dollars.