Opioid Painkillers

An Indian-origin physician has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay fine and restitution of over a million dollars for engaging in a multi-faceted health care fraud scheme and for illegally prescribing thousands of opioid painkillers and muscle relaxers.

US drugmaker Johnson & Johnson faces a potential record $17 billion damages payout Monday when an Oklahoma judge rules whether its aggressive promotion of opioid painkillers was responsible for the state's addiction epidemic.

A 76-year-old Indian-origin head of a US pharmaceutical major has become the first top executive of a drugmaker to be convicted of bribing doctors in America to prescribe addictive painkillers, fuelling a national opioid crisis which has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people over two decades.

The first prosecution of a pharmaceutical company chief executive tied to opioid overdoses begins this week, when Insys Therapeutics Inc.'s John Kapoor goes on trial. The fallout may jolt an industry facing steep penalties for its own role in the crisis.

Adolescents and young adults often are introduced to highly addictive opioid painkillers when they have their third molars pulled.

This tiny pill just three millimeters in diameter is likely to worsen the nation's drug crisis, according to critics and the head of the FDA's advisory committee on painkillers.

People who take painkillers other than heart disease, diabetes and stroke medication increase their risk of obesity by 95%.

A study suggests that more than two third surgery patients often end up with left over opioid painkillers and they do not store or dispose of them.This study concerns over prescribing addictive medicine that can end in the wrong hands. Often doctors are uncertain about the amount of medicines that a patient actually requires after common operations...

The Italian police have seized a huge consignment of 37 million tramadol pills, worth USD 75 million, which was being shipped from India to be sold to ISIS terrorists in Libya. The investigators traced the tramadol shipment to an Indian pharmaceutical company, which allegedly sold the pills for USD 250,000 to a Dubai-based importer, which then ship...

Sunita Singh was dressed in her bridal outfit, red salwar-kameez, when she spotted her groom as he approached the gurudwara where the ceremony was to be held on Sunday.

The medical examiner's office, as is customary, gave no details other than the cause of death, with the sheriff's department in Minnesota's Carver County still investigating events leading to Prince's sudden demise

Opioid-based painkillers such as morphine paradoxically prolonged pain in rats, according to a new study that could have far-reaching implications for humans.

Scientists have discovered a potential recipe for painlessness in humans, by using mice genetically modified to lack a nerve channel that enables people and animals to feel pain.

In the study involving over 500 patients in Canada, the researchers found that more than half (52 per cent) of women and a third (38 per cent) of men reported doctor-prescribed painkillers as their first contact with opioid drugs, a family of drugs which include prescription medicines such OxyContin and codeine, as well as illicit drugs such as her...

MJ was probably addicted to an opioid painkiller given by a dermatologist treating the star with botox in the months before his death.

An Indian-origin physician has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay fine and restitution of over a million dollars for engaging in a multi-faceted health care fraud scheme and for illegally prescribing thousands of opioid painkillers and muscle relaxers.

US drugmaker Johnson & Johnson faces a potential record $17 billion damages payout Monday when an Oklahoma judge rules whether its aggressive promotion of opioid painkillers was responsible for the state's addiction epidemic.

A 76-year-old Indian-origin head of a US pharmaceutical major has become the first top executive of a drugmaker to be convicted of bribing doctors in America to prescribe addictive painkillers, fuelling a national opioid crisis which has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people over two decades.

The first prosecution of a pharmaceutical company chief executive tied to opioid overdoses begins this week, when Insys Therapeutics Inc.'s John Kapoor goes on trial. The fallout may jolt an industry facing steep penalties for its own role in the crisis.

Adolescents and young adults often are introduced to highly addictive opioid painkillers when they have their third molars pulled.

This tiny pill just three millimeters in diameter is likely to worsen the nation's drug crisis, according to critics and the head of the FDA's advisory committee on painkillers.

People who take painkillers other than heart disease, diabetes and stroke medication increase their risk of obesity by 95%.

A study suggests that more than two third surgery patients often end up with left over opioid painkillers and they do not store or dispose of them.This study concerns over prescribing addictive medicine that can end in the wrong hands. Often doctors are uncertain about the amount of medicines that a patient actually requires after common operations...

The Italian police have seized a huge consignment of 37 million tramadol pills, worth USD 75 million, which was being shipped from India to be sold to ISIS terrorists in Libya. The investigators traced the tramadol shipment to an Indian pharmaceutical company, which allegedly sold the pills for USD 250,000 to a Dubai-based importer, which then ship...

Sunita Singh was dressed in her bridal outfit, red salwar-kameez, when she spotted her groom as he approached the gurudwara where the ceremony was to be held on Sunday.

The medical examiner's office, as is customary, gave no details other than the cause of death, with the sheriff's department in Minnesota's Carver County still investigating events leading to Prince's sudden demise

Opioid-based painkillers such as morphine paradoxically prolonged pain in rats, according to a new study that could have far-reaching implications for humans.

Scientists have discovered a potential recipe for painlessness in humans, by using mice genetically modified to lack a nerve channel that enables people and animals to feel pain.

In the study involving over 500 patients in Canada, the researchers found that more than half (52 per cent) of women and a third (38 per cent) of men reported doctor-prescribed painkillers as their first contact with opioid drugs, a family of drugs which include prescription medicines such OxyContin and codeine, as well as illicit drugs such as her...

MJ was probably addicted to an opioid painkiller given by a dermatologist treating the star with botox in the months before his death.