OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone News

An Upstate nurse was arrested, accused of stealing drugs from the hospital where she worked.

Ontario may have new rules before the end of the year to restrict how the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin is prescribed and dispensed, as well as other narcotics and controlled substances, government officials said.

Sheriff Larry Waller has announced that preliminary crime lab results on four unexplained deaths had been called into his office.

A Woodbine man was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in London to 180 months in prison for a drug conspiracy and possessing firearms.

In just four days, four people in rural Lamar County died ofA legal drugs prescribed for them.

Part One: Prescription pills killed more Montanans last year than motor vehicle accidents, homicides, and meth combined.

Local pharmacies are being hit-hard-by robbers seeking OxyContin, and pharmacists are wondering what they can do to protect themselves and their customers Late last winter, just hours after he returned from downtown Seattle where he had been assisting police with an ongoing investigation of a robbery at his pharmacy, Mike Donohue, owner of Bob ...

Authorities announced today a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of a thief who robbed a North Park drugstore, stealing bottles of OxyContin instead of cash.

Joey Bartolucci swallowed his last pills on a chilly night in February. He climbed into bed and pulled a red comforter to his chest, upset that he had let his girlfriend down but hopeful he still could put a life together, go to paramedic school and spend his time helping people in need.

A well-respected, senior Longmont police officer was jailed on suspicion of providing a female confidential informant with a lifestyle and drugs that she couldn't afford on her own.

Focus Hooked: Canada's painkiller problem At a rate of more than 466,000 doses a day, Canadains pop more painkillers per capita than almost any other country .

A man wearing gloves and a mask implied he had a gun, then robbed the pharmacy inside the Albertson's Store at 16199 Boones Ferry Road in Lake Grove Tuesday.

Two students are being charged with felonies following seven drug-related arrests made at Clinton High School late last month.

Federal prosecutors charged Baton Rouge lawyer Kevin Monahan on Tuesday with illegal possession of a powerful prescription pain reliever and marijuana.

A woman with a semiautomatic handgun stole $5,000 worth of the narcotic OxyContin from the Rite Aid pharmacy Monday night.

A Riviera Beach firefighter is on administrative leave after he was one of 10 people caught up last month in a Palm Beach Shores sweep of oxycodone sales near a city park, authorities said.

There's a perception that abusing prescription drugs is somehow less dangerous than illicit substances such as cocaine and heroin.

BANGOR, Maine a ' Two different Maine Drug Enforcement Agency investigations last week in Bangor and Otis resulted in three arrests and the seizure of more than $100,000 in prescription drugs, the MDEA said in a release.

Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor 2x, Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Alcohol by a Minor, occurred on November 4, 2009, around 12:20 a.m., in the 8800 block of Flatbush Court in Manassas.

The problem of illegal prescription narcotics is forcing communities across the area to do something to try to stem the flow of these powerful drugs.