Tyler native and former Tampa Bay Buccaneers center Randy Grimes was in his home town on Friday to speak about recovery from ...

A state panel on Thursday recommended issuing more than $44 million in grants for scores of addiction prevention and treatment efforts aimed at reducing opioid overdoses.

Kurt Angle has recalled spending thousands of dollars on painkillers every month as he battled with his addiction. The WWE Hall of Famer has been extremely candid about his personal struggles over the ...

A Penn Township nurse practitioner who pleaded guilty last summer to forging prescriptions for thousands of pain pills said ...

Researchers have developed a non-addictive painkiller that remains inactive until it reaches sites of chronic pain. Instead of dulling the nerves that send the pain signals like other analgesics, this ...

Narcotics Anonymous and Salvation Army are often hostile to use of the addiction medications buprenorphine and methadone.

Both drugs are schedule 2 controlled substances and are potentially addictive painkillers when abused. The Board says the scammers use convincing security paper with providers' credentials and use ...

QUINCY – A substance abuse treatment center has agreed to pay $650,000 in restitution to settle complaints raised by the office of Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell claiming the ...

Depending on the severity of your pain, you may be given: Over-the-counter pain relievers such as Tylenol (acetaminophen) or Advil (ibuprofen) Opioid painkillers such as Vicodin ...

Opiates entered the equation in the years that ... times less than Puma was prescribed before he weaned off the highly addictive drug – and are very wary of prescribing long-acting medications ...

In Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, Hasan Khan allegedly hired contract killers to murder his son, Irfan Khan, due to his severe gambling and drug addictions. Driven by frustration over the negative ...

“I was averaging about 24 Panadeine Forte painkillers a day and then I was ... And they’re quite addictive,” he said. Dr Zac Turner says patients with unusual working hours are particularly ...