As oil companies pump more and more crude out of the ground and workers from around the country arrive to cash in on the black gold rush, a new wave of crime has taken over the once quiet towns of Northwestern North Dakota.
New York authorities are searching for a gunman wanted in the killings of four people inside a Long Island pharmacy.
This past winter, I found myself following a drug dealer and his crew up the dark stairway of a triple-decker apartment building on the outskirts of Boston. Reaching a unit on the top floor, the young man pulled a gun from his waistband and set it on a coffee table next to a digital scale and a pile of drugs.
Less than two hours after picking out a man in a police lineup who held up his drugstore, pharmacist Mike Donohue was being robbed.
A surge of violent robberies has many pharmacists on edge, CNN's Patrick Oppmann reports.
Prescription drug abuse, now the fastest-growing drug problem in the country, has created a ballooning street market for highly-addictive pain relief, anxiety and depression drugs.
Rapper DMX -- more formally known as Earl Simmons -- has been sentenced to a year in prison after his recent arrest for violating terms of his probation, a court spokesman said Thursday.
Doctors are increasingly turning to Oxycontin and similar painkillers to treat arthritis and other conditions in older people, but the drugs may not be as safe as once thought.
Troubled rapper DMX is back behind bars in Arizona for violating his probation.
The Drug Enforcement Administration urged Americans on Saturday to turn in their old and unused prescription drugs as part of an effort by the agency to stop a rise in prescription drug abuse.
Don't leave out Sherry and Mercedes Johnston, they want Levi and Bristol to know
Former child actor Corey Haim had prescriptions for as many as 553 dangerous drugs in the last year of his life, and it's the result of "doctor shopping," California's top law official said Tuesday.
Actor Corey Haim was the "poster child" for the problem of addicts "doctor shopping" for dangerous drugs, California's top law enforcement official said Tuesday.
But the suspect may not have directly supplied the drugs that caused the actor's death, an official says
Some are girlish 22-year-olds; others are women approaching 40. They come from South Carolina's rural counties and its booming cities. They are loud and muted, lively and vacant, hopeful and desperate.
The popular deejay had a number of drugs in his system at the time of his death
Authorities also found a Valentine's card from an ex-girlfriend, the source tells PEOPLE
Was it a suicide or an accident?
Prescribed opioids -- pain medication -- have become the fastest-growing addiction problem in the United States. They are second to marijuana as the most commonly used illicit substances.
Kenny Morrison soaked in life from his beachfront home. A top chef at a trendy L.A. restaurant, he served dinner to the Hollywood stars, including A-listers.
Dental dopers
updated: Tue Jul 21 2009 14:05:00
CNN's Thelma Gutierrez reports on addicts who are turning to dentists for prescription drugs like coedine and vicodin.
No Demerol or Oxycontin given to the singer - but a valiant effort to save his life, says lawyer
Sherry Johnson, who is awaiting trial on drug charges, says grandson Tripp was able to visit her at home
It was Halloween night when 12-year-old Lucy Gross picked up her first marijuana cigarette, starting a spiral from which she is still struggling to recover.
Recovering teens can go to special high schools to help them stay clean. Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.
The mother of Bristol Palin¹s fiancé will answer to six felony counts in May
"I'm in pain," says the recently-arrested grandmother of Bristol Palin's child
Sherry Johnston – set to be grandmother to Bristol Palin's baby – faces six felony charges
Fifty-six government employees -- including a police officer, a felony court clerk, two corrections officers and 27 school bus drivers and attendants -- were arrested in a scam that used health insurance information to fraudulently obtain prescriptions for the painkiller OxyContin, authorities said Wednesday.
It's called the "love hormone," and it's been shown to mitigate symptoms of social disorders like autism. Now some manufacturers are touting it as a shyness remedy
Over the phone from Mississippi, Brett Favre had a message for Michael Strahan this morning.
Nationwide, methadone deaths are increasing at a faster rate than any other drug-related deaths, the National Center for Health Statistics reported in February
After clearing two doctors, investigators look for how Ledger obtained the painkillers
Feds determine that they met with Heath but did not prescribe the most powerful drugs
Physicians in California and Texas are under investigation by the DEA
Time.com: Rudy: All Business
updated: Thu Dec 13 2007 00:00:00
The former New York City mayor parlayed his experience into opportunity. He got rich, but who were his clients?
CNN's Kelli Arena profiles a mother fighting to reduce wide disparities in federal prison terms for cocaine offenders.
Should doctors refuse treatment if it conflicts with their religious beliefs? CNN's Randi Kaye takes a look.
Reports of dangerous side effects and deaths from widely used medicines almost tripled between 1998 and 2005, an analysis of U.S. drug data found
When his craving for painkillers got to be too much, Steve Dotson lay down and let his wife drive a car over his leg. It hurt, but he could dismiss the pain with thoughts of the medicated bliss that would follow.
Retail sales of five leading painkillers nearly doubled over the last eight years, reflecting a surge in use by patients nationwide who are living in a world of pain, according to a new Associated Press analysis of federal drug prescription data.
Why a record fine against has the left the families affected by the drug unsatisfied.
Purdue Pharma agreed to pay out $634 million to defendants in its OxyContin settlement with federal authorities based in West Virginia.
With her career getting back on track after several years of self-imposed exile, Winona Ryder is talking for the first time about her December 2001 arrest after she'd been videotaped trying to make off with merchandise from the Beverly Hills Saks Fifth Avenue.
Excerpted from Senior Year: A Father, A Son, and High School Baseball by Dan Shaughnessy published by Houghton Mifflin Company. Copyright � 2007 by Dan Shaughnessy. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.
The maker of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma LP, agreed Thursday to a $600 million penalty as part of a plea deal with the Justice Department on a felony charge of misleading and defrauding physicians and consumers, the government said.
Drugmaker Purdue Pharma said Tuesday it would pay $19.5 million to 27 U.S. states for marketing its pain reliever OxyContin for off-label use and for failing to properly disclose the drug's potential for abuse and addiction.
Millions of Americans have gotten used to popping pills for depression, but the antidepressant of the future might be a machine that pulses magnetic waves through the brain.
Durect is developing an abuse-resistant form of the addictive painkiller OxyContin that has a good shot at being a blockbuster, but it faces a minefield of potential patent battles.
Slightly fewer adolescents abused illegal drugs and alcohol in 2006, but fairly high numbers of them continued to abuse prescription narcotics, according to a new study.
Imagine this: a worldwide network of radio-tagged pharmaceuticals, weeding out the multi-billion dollar counterfeit drug market with a universal security system.
The U.S. Customs department is relaxing its enforcement on the importation from Canada of pharmaceutical drugs for personal use, much to the ire of the industry's trade organization.
Teva Pharmaceuticals, the world's biggest manufacturer of generic drugs, has settled a patent infringement case with The Purdue Frederick Company over generic OxyContin, the companies said.
A new study by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America warns that prescription drug abuse among teens is increasingly common. About 1 in 5 teens has tried a prescription painkiller such as Vicodin or Oxycontin to get high, the study found, and many parents aren't picking up on the warning signs.
Big Brother is watching your Viagra. And your OxyContin. And, within five years, maybe the rest of your medicine cabinet, too.
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Mindy McCready has been released from jail on $50,000 bond on a charge of probation violation.
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Federal officials on Thursday arrested 29 people in the Miami-Dade County area, including a number of low-level school employees, and charged them with attempting to obtain the narcotic OxyContin to distribute it.
Pssst! Want some Viagra? How about Xanax? Prozac?
Rebel rocker and courtroom fashion plate Courtney Love is expected to surrender to Los Angeles authorities Friday to face new charges of assault with a deadly weapon.
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