Suffolk County is suing the makers of the pain medication OxyContin and other drug manufacturers, alleging the companies are misleading the public and doctors about the addictiveness of painkillers.

While the nation is experiencing unprecedented rates of opioid overdose deaths, a painkiller revolution could be in the country’s not-so-distant future. America is poised to enter a new chapter in ...

Nearly all — 99 percent — of primary care physicians give patients prescriptions for potentially addictive opioid painkillers for longer than the three-day period recommended by the CDC, National ...

Most people who abuse addictive prescription painkillers get them for free from friends or relatives, while drug dealers are a relatively uncommon source for those at highest risk for deadly overdoses ...

Often when people come out of surgery and even long after an accident, people use painkillers to relieve themselves of the excruciating pain. The fact that painkillers can be addictive and could end ...

Americans consume a staggering amount of the opioid painkiller hydrocodone, about 99 percent of the world's supply. In October, after 10 years of debate the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reclassified ...

A cannabis-derived drug is the first non-addictive and clinically-proven painkiller made using the plant, a drug maker claims. Developed under the name VER-01 by German drug company Vertanical, the ...

The 53-year-old reality star — who appears on the TLC show with her ex-husband Kody Brown and their polygamist family — revealed in her new memoir that she started taking oxycodone in 2016, after ...

A liability suit against concert promoter AEG Live for the wrongful death of Michael Jackson brought forth an expert witness on drug addiction on Tuesday. Dr. Petros Levounis said Michael Jackson ...

Suzetrigine prevents pain signals from reaching the brain and doesn't give an opioid-like high, making it non-addictive—but it's expensive. Reading time 2 minutes To treat acute pain, doctors in the U ...