Dilaudid (drug)

A former receptionist for a Rockport dentist pleaded guilty Wednesday to a drug charge and will see a reduced sentence if she assists in any state investigation of the doctor. The dentist himself reached a consent decree last fall with the Maine Board...

Editor's Note: The Times Record today continues its series of reports on prescription drug abuse. Sunday: Addict turns life around. A statewide system tracking the hundreds of controlled substance prescriptions filled in Arkansas is continuing to...

Talk about risk-takers... Deputies entered the county jail's visitation center Wednesday after getting a report of two Ocala women, Casey Brooke West, 25, and Ayla Susan Elizabeth Tillander, 27, shooting up drugs -- inside the women's public restroom at...

A Fairplay man who stole a neighbor’s van, unsuccessfully tried to rob a pharmacy and then was caught by the son of the van’s owner was sentenced to five years in state prison after pleading guilty Thursday in Washington Circuit Court to...

Soft guitar music played quietly as four high school students moved their microphones into position, forming a tight quadrangle on the small stage. As they readied themselves to perform — junior Jada-Amina Harvey and sophomores Omari Ferrell, Ike...

OSCEOLA, Mo. -- A family doctor from Lowry City is accused of writing prescriptions for more than two years without having a valid state permit to do so.  The St. Clair County prosecuting attorney filed 16 felony charges against Dr. John Ure on Monday...

A 45-year-old Alanson man is currently lodged in Emmet County Jail, following a Straits Area Narcotics Enforcement search warrant being executed at an apartment on Tuesday morning. Officers from the Michigan State Police, Emmet County Sheriff's...

At 1 p.m. on Friday, his 7th birthday, Wes Pak completed his seventh cycle of 3F8 monoclonal antibody treatment at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. At 6 p.m. his family greeted him on the tarmac at Rick's Aviation in Newport News,...

Terry Smith collapsed face-down in a pool of his own vomit. Lynn Blunt snored loudly as her lungs slowly filled with fluid. Summer Ann Burdette was midway through a pear when she stopped breathing. Larry Carmichael knocked over a lamp as he fell...

Twenty warrants were served early Wednesday morning as part of a massive drug sting. The arrests are the culmination of a six-month long investigation in which State Police troopers and Elizabethtown Police Department officers went undercover and...

For years, oxycodone reigned as the prescription drug of choice for dealers and abusers in Florida. The painkiller was so widely prescribed in the Sunshine State that just two years ago, 90 of the top 100 oxycodone-buying physicians in the nation were...

OCEANSIDE, Calif. -- Police released images Wednesday of a gunman who robbed an Oceanside pharmacy of drugs worth about $15,000 in the hope that someone will recognize him. A security camera captured video of the June 1 armed robbery of the CVS...