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Authorities charged two with robbing a man at gunpoint Thursday. William Cody Clark, 17, and Joshua Glenn Banks, 20, both of Brickyard Road in Asheville, were each charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon.

The painkiller oxycodone caused more deaths in Florida last year than any other drug, according to a report released this morning, and nowhere did it cause more deaths than in the medical examiner district for Pinellas and Pasco counties.

Cherilyn Lee says Michael Jackson asked her for a powerful sleep aid. More Photos The drug was just one of many among the pharmacopeia found in his Holmby Hills home.

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News Release [ print-friendly page ] Date: June 30, 2009 Contact: Melissa Bell Number: 202-616-4740 Pharmacist and Baltimore County Pharmacy Indicted for Illegal Oxycodone Distribution Diversion of Prescription Drugs Termed Leading Drug Enforcement Challenge JUN 30 -- Baltimore , Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted pharmacist Ketankumar ...

Hodgins became addicted to painkillers like Vicodin and OxyContin after being injured in an accident.

Deadly overdoses of anti- anxiety drugs and painkillers spiked in the Orlando area and across the state last year, experts said, evidence of the growing threat posed by the abuse of legal prescription drugs.

A Reisterstown pharmacist was arrested Tuesday morning on federal charges he illegally sold more than 23,000 prescription pills, making him the second largest distributor of oxycodone products in Baltimore County.

Toxicology reports said that a Creighton University student died of an overdose of the prescription painkiller OxyContin, but it wasn't immediately clear where Jonathan Colby got the pills.

Oxycontin, a prescription pain killer, is rumored to have been used daily by Michael Jackson for pain control.

Florida continues to see a rapid rise in fatal overdoses caused by prescription-drug abuse -- a trend fueled by a cottage industry of cash-only pain clinics -- while deaths from illegal drugs wane, according to a report from the state's medical examiners released Tuesday.

Undercover detectives entered the Holly Hill residence of Brandi Bowman on Tuesday and purchased a handful of oxycodone pills, otherwise known as OxyContin, they said.

Michael Jackson wasna t breathing when his doctor discovered the dying singer, though a faint pulse was detected, according to the physiciana s lawyers.

A Philadelphia man has been indicted on federal drug and weapon charges after investigators found drugs and a shotgun in his home in May.

A Loudon County man faces federal drug and weapon charges after authorities reported finding drugs and a loaded shotgun at his Philadelphia home, according to a press release from the Loudon County Sheriff's Office.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement today released the Florida Medical Examiners Commission Report on Drugs Identified in Deceased Persons.

Police are looking for a suspect in an armed robbery early Monday morning of a Provo pharmacy.

Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's cardiologist, poses for a photo in Houston on July 7, 2006.

As friends of pop star Michael Jackson discuss the role prescription drugs may have played in his Thursday death, the serious health problems that can be triggered by drug interactions are again in the spotlight.

President Barack Obama has recently appointed Gil Kerlikowske as director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.