Browsing: oxycontin

Alcohol has strong associations with fun and relaxation, but it’s just another drug as far as your body is concerned.…

On July 12, 2016, my son died of a heroin overdose, alone in his apartment bathroom in Los Angeles. Had…

If you suffer from anxiety, panic disorder, or insomnia, your doctor may have prescribed you what’s known as benzodiazepines (or…

When my 15 year old son, Gary, was screaming in pain from complications from Crohn’s Disease in the ER, a…

Is weed a schedule 5 drug? What about ketamine or gabapentin? Here is a list of drugs by schedule from 1 – 5. Drugs in Schedules IV (4) and V (5) are considered to be the highest risk for abuse, addiction or harm.

What were the most popular stories we published in 2018? Our Top 10 includes two stories on drugs that have…

Patients who receive an opioid medication after surgery only use a small fraction of what they are prescribed, a finding…

By Charles Ornstein and Ryann Grochowski Jones ProPublica The past two years have been a time of reckoning for pharmaceutical…

A sports injury from playing squash in high school lead to a herniated disc for Bob Johnson (name changed to…

A quarter of patients who went to the hospital for a sprained ankle ended up leaving with a prescription for…