Jan. 18 (UPI) --The Justice Department has filed a civil lawsuit against Walgreens, accusing the 124-year-old pharmacy chain of dispensing millions of unlawful prescriptions over a period of several ...

Approximately 43% of patients aged 65 years or older with rheumatic disease filled at least one opioid prescription in 2021, ...

Purdue Pharma recently reached a $7.4 billion settlement with all 50 states and the District of Columbia over its alleged role in fueling the opioid crisis through aggressive marketing of OxyContin.

Extended-release buprenorphine is approved as a once-monthly subcutaneous injection for the treatment of moderate-to-severe ...

If a parent has persistent opioid prescriptions, their adolescent or young adult offspring has more than double the risk of persistent opioid use, according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine ...

It’s similar to xylazine, or tranq — a veterinary painkiller and muscle relaxant commonly cut into street drugs since about ...

Indiana has launched two new dashboards aimed at tracking drug overdose data and violent crimes. Advocates say the overdose ...

Police services across northern Ontario say most illicit drugs circulating in their communities are being transported from southern parts of the province, while prescription drugs diverted into the ...

Prescriptions for gabapentin in the U.S. increased from 5.8 million to 15.5 million since 2010, raising safety concerns ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the 2026 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rule with a wide range of policy updates that extend beyond core payment changes. A ...

Ambros Therapeutics’ non-opioid bisphosphonate analgesic, already approved in Italy, will soon begin a pivotal test in the ...

West Virginia sued United HealthGroup on Monday in federal court, alleging that the company’s pharmacy benefit manager Optum ...