Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illicit pills sold as oxycodone in the Kelowna, B.C., area may contain fentanyl. Health officials are asking people who have the ...

October 4, 2011 (Las Vegas, Nevada) — An immediate-release oxycodone tablet designed to cause various unpleasant sensations when inhaled shows efficacy in preventing the abuse of the drug, according ...

A former Franklin nurse is accused of switching out a resident’s oxycodone medication with another drug and failing to accurately maintain records. Kori Beth Babb, 47, of Columbus, is charged with ...

After a 15-year lull, abuse of prescription narcotic analgesics splashed onto the front pages of the nation's newspapers this winter. People looking for highs -- and high profits -- robbed and ...

NEW YORK -- The maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin said it will stop marketing opioid drugs to doctors, bowing to a key demand of lawsuits that blame the company for helping trigger the ...