BUTTE, Mont. - Butte police are warning families that prescription drug abuse in kids as young at 13 is on the rise and want to teach them how to solve the problem. Local law enforcement along with ...

Prescription drug abuse is all over the headlines these days. The untimely death of actor Heath Ledger, caused by accidental overdose of six different prescription drugs, has raised awareness of this ...

Your doctor prescribes medicine, and you take it as directed. That’s how it’s supposed to go. If you take prescription drugs for another reason, such as to get high, that’s abuse. Prescription drug ...

Prescription painkillers are creating a massive public-health crisis. Since 1990, deaths in the U.S. from unintentional drug overdoses have increased by over 500%. Most of this rise can be attributed ...

A sheriff's detective is warning that four recent arrests for prescription drug abuse shows the problem is continuing in the county, eating up more of the Columbia County Sheriff's Department's time ...

The heroin epidemic has hit the Midstate and the county hard in the last few years, and among the different facets of the problem is heroin’s link to prescription opioids. Officials see prescription ...

Medications once used to treat illness are increasingly being taken for prevention. Experts explain what’s behind the ...

Waiting a month for his insurance company to approve his insulin medication, Timothy Dontigney could not afford to pay for the medication upfront and had to go for a time without it, a dangerous ...