Hassad, has been convicted of illegally prescribing oxycodone and faces up to 20 years per count on eight counts.

A Dunkirk man with an active arrest warrant for third-degree criminal possession of a weapon is facing additional charges after an arrest last month. City police reported Thursday that Fernando ...

Researcher Ming-Fen Ho wanted to discover better drugs to treat alcohol and opioid addiction. So she started growing ...

Preliminary CDC data on the 12-month period ending in June showed that overdoses dropped about 15 percentage points from the ...

A prosecutor had been threatening mothers who used drugs while pregnant with long sentences — until Brandy Moore fought the ...

A 46-year-old man, Mohhamad Sadique Hanif Sayyad, was arrested in Mumbai's Powai area with over 13 kilograms of charas worth ...

People struggling with their body weight experienced joy when new, more effective prescription drug options became the rage ...

About 20 members of the community and the Elkins Opioid Task Force heard a West Virginia University researcher’s findings on ...

At a popular meeting spot for substance abusers near central Helsinki, even the addicts warn that Finland has a spiralling ...

Raja Krishnamoorthi is a Democratic U.S. Representative from Illinois and the Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on ...

Medetomidine, a powerful animal tranquilizer is making its way into the drug opioid crisis. Medetomidine is a veterinary sedative not approved for human consumption but there are reports of outbreaks ...

Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to ...