For more than a decade, members of a little-known group called the Pain Care Forum have blanketed Washington with messages...
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The makers of prescription painkillers have adopted a 50-state strategy that includes hundreds of lobbyists and millions in campaign contributions...
At first, the woman tried to hide her painkiller problem. She told the doctor that she still had pain from...
Accidental overdoses aren’t the only deadly risk from using powerful prescription painkillers – the drugs may also contribute to heart-related...
Critics of how prescription painkillers are administered in the U.S. are calling on health officials to phase out hospital procedures...
Short-acting opioid painkillers will carry strong new warnings under U.S. Food and Drug Administration requirements announced on Tuesday that will...
A crackdown on Florida’s “pill mills” – clinics dispensing large quantities of prescription painkillers often for cash-only and without proper...
Opioid painkiller addiction and accidental overdoses have become far too common across the United States. To try to identify who...
Many primary care physicians – the top prescribers of prescription pain pills in the United States – don’t understand basic...
A doctor with offices in Kentucky and southern Indiana has been charged with prescribing pain medications that resulted in the...