At least 48 states have established programs to monitor prescription and sale of opioid pain medicat...

A real-time opioid and benzodiazepine prescription monitoring program in British Columbia led to a 3...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its decision yesterday about the need for mandatory...

Hydrocodone is currently the second-most-abused medication in the United States, according to a Dece...

Deaths from prescription painkillers--opioids or narcotics--have become a public-health epidemic, sa...

Scott Rothstein/Shutterstock  Government and private surveys over the last few years have document...