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Vermont health and law enforcement officials are scrambling to confront a problem of prescription drug abuse in the state that, in some cases, has turned deadly.

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A Rowan County grand jury indicted 18 people Friday on charges including possession of controlled substance, promoting contraband at the jail and food stamp fraud.

Two Portsmouth Police officers have arrested a Portsmouth man for possession of drugs.

The ABC Action News Investigators have received numerous complaints about a Tampa Bay pain management doctor.

Authorities seized more than $10,000 cash and 1,003 roxicodone pills from a bank safe deposit box on Tuesday.

A report by Florida medical examiners, released by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement on Monday, shows prescription drugs were found more often than illicit drugs in both lethal and nonlethal levels ...

Two months after urging shareholders to reject a $37-per-share offer from King Pharmaceuticals Inc., Alpharma Inc.

Investigators who traced 13 fatal painkiller overdoses to a rural doctor hauled her into court in handcuffs and call her a heartless "pill mill" operator.

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Acting United States Attorney Thomas F. Kirwin, Northern District of Florida, announced Wednesday that Dr.

The arrest followed a raid on a home Monday by the Alaska Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Enforcement.

A Peabody man caught dealing large amounts of OxyContin in Peabody and Lawrence was indicted Friday afternoon by an Essex County grand jury.

County authorities arrested a Novato couple and seized their four children Friday night following an undercover investigation into street sales of the prescription painkiller OxyContin, the sheriff's department ...

A Miamisburg man accused of selling prescription medications in Ohio and Kentucky was sentenced Thursday, Nov.

At least 48 million Americans 12 and older are using prescription drugs for non-medical reasons.

It's been more than a month since Tim and Joan Smith have gone to bed without the fear of a late-night knock from the police.

Law enforcement authorities in Fairbanks say they've arrested an 81-year-old man who illegally sold powerful prescription pain relievers.

A St. Stephen man who admitted being the driver of a vehicle during a drug deal said he only did it to earn an OxyContin pill to give to his drug-addicted son.

Thousands of dollars in drug money and hundreds of prescription pills allegedly being sold on the street were seized in a Wednesday morning drug raid in St.