Approximately 43% of patients aged 65 years or older with rheumatic disease filled at least one opioid prescription in 2021, ...

Jan. 18 (UPI) --The Justice Department has filed a civil lawsuit against Walgreens, accusing the 124-year-old pharmacy chain of dispensing millions of unlawful prescriptions over a period of several ...

Purdue Pharma recently reached a $7.4 billion settlement with all 50 states and the District of Columbia over its alleged role in fueling the opioid crisis through aggressive marketing of OxyContin.

Insurance companies want to dodge litigation costs acquired by Publix and other pharmacies over claims they contributed to ...

If a parent has persistent opioid prescriptions, their adolescent or young adult offspring has more than double the risk of persistent opioid use, according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine ...

Dr. Craig Spiegel pleaded guilty to three federal charges over the illegal distribution scheme which started as early as 2014 ...

A federally funded study published by the American Medical Association (AMA) is adding more evidence that marijuana can serve ...

West Virginia sued United HealthGroup on Monday in federal court, alleging that the company’s pharmacy benefit manager Optum ...