Howard Adelglass, 67, was convicted of supplying some 1.3 million oxycodone pills to addicts and drug dealers from his ...

Laurence F. Doud III, who headed the Rochester Drug Cooperative, will serve more than two years for conspiring to funnel ...

“We had a massive opioid problem that needed to be rectified,” said Antonio Ciaccia, president of 3 Axis Advisors, a consulting firm that analyzes prescription drug pricing. “But the federal ...

Michelle A. Hendricks, Ph.D., from Comagine Health in Portland, Oregon, and colleagues examined the role of household opioid ...

He was a college-educated opioid dealer who ... more than 90,000 highly addictive prescription pain pills on the streets — a crime similar to what he was convicted of almost a decade earlier.

New guidelines for prescribing opioids for pain were changed in November, allowing doctors more flexibility. But doctors, ...

Prescription opioid pills helped get many addicted to opioids ... others went to prison after patients died from overdoses. Others were convicted of writing prescriptions without a legitimate medical ...

After exclusions were applied, 85,852 mothers filled an opioid prescription within seven days of discharge and 538,815 did not. Each mother who filled an opioid prescription within seven days of ...