When I started taking opioids, they were all I was taking. I’d always thought of medicine as a take-only-when-needed kind of ...
The Iowa Board of Pharmacy has revoked the license of a pharmacy technician convicted of stealing 600 doses of opioid pain ...
WATERLOO — A Cedar Rapids nurse has been sentenced to probation for taking opioid medication from patients at a Black Hawk ...
Prescription opioid misuse is a very serious problem in the United States. The misuse of prescription opioids is typically defined as: (a) use of a prescription opioid without a prescription of ...
Dr. Ndubuisi Joseph Okafor, a 64-year-old physician from Upper Marlboro, Maryland, has been indicted on 29 counts in a ...
Cass County just received more money to help fight the opioid crisis thanks to a national settlement, and the county wants to ...
Pain management is an inexact science; there is plenty of blame to go around for the abuse of such drugs. To the Editor: Re “The D.E.A. Should Get Out of Public Health,” by Shravani Durbhakula ...
The US saw a 22% decline in rates of prescription-opioid overdose related emergency department (ED) visits in children 17 and ...
Dr. Gupta is the Drug Policy Director for the White House and he’s say this drug epidemic is a threat like no other. He says ...
An advisory council under the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services would be set up to help award grants for projects ...
And while the VA has made significant strides in decreasing the number of opioids prescribed to veterans -- dropping the prescription rate a whopping 67% since 2012, going from 874,897 to 288,820 ...
Police alleged the pharmacy worker admitted that while at work she would place the pills into the trash and retrieve them ...