A Louisville man was indicted Wednesday in connection to the overdose death of a 17-year-old. Tyler Cull, 25, was indicted ...

A Hartford man was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison for selling oxycodone pills that were prescribed to a ...

Authorities also found about 6,000 pills of suspected oxycodone and more than 1,000 grams of methamphetamine during the ...

Over the last several months, the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Unit (SIU) conducted an investigation into the drug dealing activities of Victoria Sinclair and her residence ...

Magic mushrooms could become the new oxycodone. A new study published in the journal Current Biology found that an injection of psilocybin — the active ingredient in magic mushrooms ...

Overdosing on oxycodone is easy because it essentially puts “your brain to sleep,” an addiction expert said. “Your brain stops sending messages to your lungs to breathe and you die,” said ...

According to DEA records, one obscure, strip-mall pharmacy in Pembroke Pines, Fla., purchased more oxycodone than any retail pharmacy in the nation in 2009. And, it was No. 1 in Florida last year ...

But in the street price of oxycodone, the sheriff said: "We're not seeing any changes." Plus, he said, there are just as many people struggling with prescription drugs as ever, to judge from his ...

But, no matter the reason, it’s often unknown to drug users that the product they bought has been laced with fentanyl, says Hulsey Nickel, which is what happened in Lovato’s case, sources told ...

In his review of the book “Complicit” (Nov. 17), Julian Baggini makes good points about ethical behavior. But blame for oxycodone’s horrors should go way beyond Purdue Pharma.

What's unique about oxycodone relative to other opioids is the speed at which it's presented to the brain. There's a long-venerated addictionology axiom that basically says the more rapid (or ...