prescription drug abuse

Nothing seemed to help the patient — and hospice staff didn’t know why.They sent home more painkillers for weeks. But the elderly woman, who had severe…

On April 5, Ciera Smith sat in a car parked on the gravel driveway of the Rural Women’s Recovery Program here with a choice to make: go to jail or enter…

A new study finds an alarming increase in the number of newborns dependent on drugs. The new research shows the number of newborns drug dependent…

The growing abuse of prescription painkillers now touches home for a majority of Americans, according to a poll released Tuesday.More than 56 percent of…

The nation’s substance abuse epidemic is taking center stage after President Obama announced new federal policies to combat the issue yesterday. The…

The accident happened 10 years ago when Chris Young was 35. He owned a salvage yard in Maui, Hawaii, and his employee had hoisted a junker on a machine…

The scene of a heroin overdose is familiar to Michelle Hodge, a patrol officer on the Near Westside of Indianapolis: someone lying blue and unconscious on…

This week's podcast of Sound Medicine is all about technology in healthcare. How safe is your health data? We speak with an expert to learn what we need…

16,235 Americans died in 2013 from overdosing on prescription opioids like vicodin and oxycodone. The good news is, this was only a one-percent increase…

New numbers released by the federal government reveal a continuing upward trend in drug overdose deaths, with 43,982 deaths in 2013 from both prescription…