A nurse at a senior facility in Franklin was arrested after she allegedly swapped out prescribed pain medication for a ...

A 58-year-old woman allegedly dropped oxycodone pills on a couch, which an 18-month-old child found and overdosed after ...

Researchers at USF Health have discovered a new way opioid receptors can work that may lead to safer pain medications. Their findings show that certain experimental compounds can amplify pain relief ...

There are many different types of pain that affect people in different ways. What works for you may not work for someone else. For this reason, there are many different medications to treat pain.

Preferential MOP agonists such as oxycodone are often required for effective management of moderate to severe pain but come with significant ...

Oxycodone and hydrocodone are prescription pain medications. Both can treat short-term pain caused by an injury or surgery. They may also be used to treat chronic, or long-term, pain. A doctor may ...

Lori Robertson is charged with tampering with a consumer product Getty A New Hampshire woman working as a nurse in Massachusetts is charged with one count of tampering with a consumer product Lori ...

Oxycodone and hydrocodone are medications that belong to a class of drugs called opioid analgesics. A doctor may prescribe opioid analgesics to treat moderate-to-severe pain. Prescription opioid ...

The current neurobiologic framework for understanding addiction rests upon the nearly ubiquitous manifestation of dopamine surges within the mesolimbic system of the brain, including nucleus accumbens ...

Oxycodone hydrochloride (Roxicodone, Oxaydo, Roxybond) is a generic prescription medication used to treat severe pain. Oxycodone comes as an oral tablet. As with other drugs, oxycodone can cause side ...

Is it possible to find illegal drugs using the Internet? Sure. But when illegal drug transactions occur, or worse, the drugs lead to tragedy, who should bear the blame? An appellate ruling involving ...