By suing CVS and Walgreens, the DOJ sends a chilling message to every pharmacy in America: If you fill opioid prescriptions, ...

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

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 ...

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.

Insurance companies want to dodge litigation costs acquired by Publix and other pharmacies over claims they contributed to opioid-related deaths.

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 ...

A federally funded study published by the American Medical Association (AMA) is adding more evidence that marijuana can serve ...

WASHINGTON -- The largest pharmacy chain in America is accused of "unlawfully dispensing massive quantities of opioids and other controlled substances to fuel its own profits at the expense of public ...

Having a marijuana dispensary in your town will likely cut down on prescription opioid use, according to several studies published this year. The researchers designed their large data studies to help ...

Davidson County is finally seeing a decline in overdose deaths, but deadly new drug combinations threaten progress.

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

Dr. Craig Spiegel pleaded guilty to three federal charges over the illegal distribution scheme which started as early as 2014 ...