Painkiller sales soar across US, fuel addiction
Sales of the nation’s two most popular prescription painkillers have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press analysis shows, worrying experts who say the push to relieve patients’...
View ArticleNY leaders negotiate prescribed drugs restrictions
State officials are working on ways to curb the black market and excessive use of hydrocodone and other addictive painkillers, including more aggressive monitoring of prescriptions and stricter...
View ArticleNY cops: Pizzeria owner sold pills with pepperoni
The owner of a Long Island restaurant has been arrested on charges he sold prescription pills along with pepperoni pizzas. Francesco Miceli of Miceli Brothers Pizzeria faces arraignment Wednesday on...
View ArticleNY puts tighter controls on hydrocodone refills
New York has set tighter restrictions on the popular painkiller hydrocodone, now prohibiting automatic refills.
View ArticleLI physician pleads guilty in painkiller deaths
A New York physician faces 20 years in prison after admitting he distributed painkillers to people he knew were drug addicts.
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