OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone News

When 24-year-old Caitlin Acosta of Falls Church, Va., was just 12 she reached into the family medicine cabinet and changed her life forever.

The doctor admitted there were clues that he was working at a Fort Lauderdale pill mill - his salary went up 400 percent, the "chaotic" waiting room overflowed with patients from out of town and he was told to give everyone the maximum number of pain pills.

An Acworth woman who worked at the Baker Road CVS Pharmacy has admitted to stealing thousands of prescription pills from her job and selling them.

Minnesota doctors say prescription drug abuse is a severe problem in the state and they often feel caught between patients who need pain medication and those who say they should do more to curb abuse.

I presume few of us take what the Americans call "Hillbilly Heroin", officially known as Oxycodone, the pain reliever that has become alarmingly addictive to tens of thousands of people.

Prescription drug abuse is on the rise in Fairfax County and a handful of local organizations are working to put a stop to what the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has classified as an epidemic.

Men taking prescription pain pills in high doses and over long periods of time are more likely to experience erectile dysfunction , according to new research.

A new study shows a link between prescription pain killers like hydrocodone and oxycodone and sexual problems in men.

A 79-year-old Lansdowne doctor well known for his civic involvement has been arrested and charged with selling prescription drugs from his home office.

Residents of Oceana, a town of 1,400 people in Wyoming County, don't deny the community has a drug problem.

The borough's prescription drug epidemic has seen a deadly spike, with one Staten Islander dying of a prescription painkiller overdose every nine days in 2011, according to new data released by the city.

Heroin is a life-altering low point in an old line of damaging recreational drugs and usually beneficial medicines, essentially the same substances, born from the opium poppy.

The film "Oxyana" takes a look at the drug problems facing the community of Oceana in Wyoming County.

Residents of Oceana, a town of 1,400 people in Wyoming County, don't deny the community has a drug problem.

Kevin Foley stood before a judge in Broward County's drug court - fellow abusers sitting behind in him in the pews - talking about the fitful life of a recovering addict, the random drug tests, the counseling and what he hoped was his next, clean chapter.

The mayor of Avon Lake recently declared that the idyllic West Side community on the Lake Erie shore is experiencing a heroin epidemic.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday denied Endo Health Solutions' petition to block generic forms of its widely abused prescription pain drug Opana ER, a surprise decision by an agency that has recently come down hard on pain drugs to prevent their abuse.

At 17, the Marathon, Florida, resident contracted muscular dystrophy, followed by rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, and "mixed connective tissue disease." Today, it's not unusual for Sullivan's knuckles to swell "nearly to the size of golf balls," her father, George Sullivan, writes.

Niagara Regional Police want your prescription drugs. The NRP is hosting the second annual Prescription Drug Drop-Off Day tomorrow from ten o'clock in the morning to three o'clock in the afternoon across the region.

Black tar heroin, it's a nasty addiction. But it's making a huge comeback. Migrating from those back alleys it's now standing on the doorsteps of some of the most affluent and unsuspecting neighborhoods like El Dorado Hills.