OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone News

What do accused Lower Mainland killer Jamie Bacon, actress Lindsay Lohan and Track Palin, son of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, have in common? Well, it's the same thing that links convicted local murderer Dennis Karbovanec to rocker Courtney Love and radio personality Rush Limbaugh.

Bob Stiles can be reached via e-mail or at 724-836-6622. By Bob Stiles TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, November 29, 2009 Americans seem to have a fixation with pain medicine.

Levi Johnston's fame as the unwed father of Sarah Palin's grandson paved the way to a photo spread for Playgirl.

Within the last two years, St. Lucie County Jail officials have had to deal with a startling trend: more and more of their inmates are addicted to prescription drugs, and it's prescription drugs that have landed them behind bars.

A scheme to rob a man of his prescription painkillers went awry Tuesday, police said, leading to the arrests of three men - one accused of shooting him in the leg.

Two Madison County residents are among 15 people arrested Tuesday on charges of forging prescriptions for the pain medication OxyContin, the state attorney general's office announced.

A Broward County grand jury issued a damning report Thursday bemoaning the explosion of illegal painkillers sold through Broward pain clinics -- and warning that reforms passed by the Legislature may not be enough.

Prescription medication addiction doesn't just happen to the "druggies" or the young, but even holds on to those who try to stop after taking it for legitimate physical pain.

For most of his life, Barrie Morrisey only thought of shingles as part of the roof that covered his house.

A former nurse at Haven Health Center of the Seacoast was sentenced to three years of probation, including six months of home confinement, for fraudulently obtaining drugs from the local nursing home.

It was the largest such prescription drug-selling operation yet dismantled, according to federal court documents and three sources with knowledge of the investigation.

The winner of the CBS reality television show "Big Brother 9," accused of trying to sell a powerful prescription painkiller, is again asking to be released on bail until his trial.

It can be snorted or swallowed and have you hooked within days. Sound scary? How about the fact that one in five Grade 8 students in the Simcoe Muskoka region have recreationally experimented with this type of drug.

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 ...