The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should review the safety and effectiveness of all opioids, and consider the real-world impacts...
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In a small study of opioid prescriptions filled at a Johns Hopkins Medicine outpatient pharmacy, researchers found that handwritten orders...
Even doctors can be addicted to opioids, in a way: It’s hard to stop prescribing them. Melissa Jones is on...
A car crash shattered Stuart Anders’ thigh, leaving pieces of bone sticking through his skin. Yet Anders begged emergency room...
Lawmakers concerned about the plight of residents with chronic pain are considering softening a tough law that puts limits on...
Georgia lawmakers have reached a compromise on a bill that would require doctors to log into a pill-tracking database before...
The ease of relapsing into opioid addiction has led a growing number of states to help residents make it clear...
Pennsylvania’s avalanche of opioids that rolled from factories through pharmacies to medicine cabinets, and then tumbled into the streets with...
Drug wholesalers shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia in just six years, a period when 1,728...
West Virginia’s Board of Pharmacy plans to ask prescription drug wholesalers to report pharmacies placing suspiciously large orders of painkillers...