Walmart proposed a $3.1 billion legal settlement on Tuesday over the toll of powerful prescription opioids sold at its pharmacies,...
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The majority of Indiana companies that responded to a survey tied to the state’s growing woes with prescription medication abuse...
Political leaders from across New England met with business leaders recently to discuss ways to combat New England’s deadly opioid...
CNA recently issued two new reports that examine the growing prescription opioid abuse epidemic and its effect on the U.S....
Many primary care physicians – the top prescribers of prescription pain pills in the United States – don’t understand basic...
A reformulation of OxyContin that makes it harder to abuse has curtailed the drug’s illicit use. But some 25 percent...
Some Texas lawmakers say prescription drugs can be bettered monitored by moving the state’s database out of the Department of...
A council created by Gov. Nikki Haley says requiring doctors to use a statewide database to check their patients’ prescription...
Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey and local police and fire chiefs are starting holiday campaigns against drunken driving and...
As prescription drug abuse and overdose have escalated nationwide, prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) were implemented in every state, but...