James Cory Hunter and Jessica Elaine Vogel, both residents of Kershaw, have been charged with trafficking fentanyl following an investigation by the Lancaster County Multijurisdictional Narcotics Task ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A nationwide backlog on prescription pain medicine is impacting those looking to fill their prescriptions on the First Coast. A viewer, who wants to remain anonymous, wrote First ...

A medical examiner testified Thursday that he could not determine whether the woman who died from ingesting a lethal dose of hydrocodone in June 2018 took the pain medication herself or was poisoned ...

Q: My 83-year-old mother recently fell on the ice and broke a rib. She was treated at urgent care and given a prescription for hydrocodone, but only a week's worth. When that ran out, she went to her ...

GILBERT, W.VA. — When his craving for painkillers got to be too much, Steve Dotson lay down and let his wife drive a car over his leg. It hurt, but he could dismiss the pain with thoughts of the ...

Tramadol and hydrocodone/acetaminophen (Vicodin) are powerful pain relievers that can be prescribed when over-the-counter medications don’t provide sufficient ...

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is recommending new restrictions on prescription medicines containing hydrocodone, the highly addictive painkiller that has grown into the most widely ...

PITT COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — On Jan. 14, Lobelia Shaz-Neeka Williams was convicted by a jury in Pitt County Superior Court for ...

Abuse-deterrent single-entity hydrocodone products are edging closer to market. Purdue Pharma LP has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FD) has granted Priority Review designation for ...

FDA said Thursday that it will recommend that hydrocodone (Vicodin) and hydrocodone combination products be reclassified to Schedule II. Janet Woodcock, CDER director, who announced the recommendation ...

American workers continue to use prescription opiates at relatively high levels, according to Drug Testing Index (DTI) data released by Quest Diagnostics Inc., which provides diagnostic testing, ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY -- More than $400,000 worth of illegal drugs and $250,000 cash were seized in a major drug bust in Washington County, part of a 20-month investigation into an alleged Germantown drug ...