January 22, 2019 New Jersey mom allegedly on drugs rolls onto toddler son, killing him, prosecutors say A New Jersey mother allegedly killed her young son when she passed out on him while she had alcohol and drugs in her system.
January 17, 2019 Man was injecting self with semen in attempt to relieve back pain, case report says A bizarre “at-home” remedy for back pain has landed a 33-year-old unidentified patient in the Irish Medical Journal after doctors discovered that he was injecting his own semen into his forearm.
December 19, 2018 Frustrated opioid patients speak out: 'I now buy heroin on the street' Hundreds of people who reached out to Fox News through emails, and messages on social media, following the publication of a three-part series on the nation's struggle to address its crippling opioid crisis caused mainly by illegal drugs, and the unintended victims – chronic pain sufferers who have relied on prescribed opioids for relief -- left in its wake.
December 14, 2018 Fentanyl now deadliest drug in America, meth overdoses growing, CDC says Fentanyl is now the deadliest drug in America, beating out heroin and oxycodone which had previously been involved in the most overdose fatalities between 2011 and 2016.
December 12, 2018 Tough new opioid policies leave some cancer and post-surgery patients without painkillers New federal and state hard lines on painkiller prescriptions are affecting even cancer patients and people fresh out of major surgeries.
December 12, 2018 Health experts offer solutions for unintended consequences of opioid crackdown The most urgently needed first step to addressing the misunderstandings about Centers for Disease and Prevention opioid prescribing guidelines, many clinicians and health experts say, is for the agency to clarify – in a high-profile way-- what the guidelines were meant, and not meant, to do.
November 5, 2018 FDA approves super-potent opioid more powerful than morphine Critics of the new drug call it "dangerous" and say it "will kill people."
October 5, 2018 Florida doctor sells cannabis-infused ice cream A doctor in Florida has taken an unconventional approach to help his patients deal manage pain: ice cream -- specifically cannabis-infused ice cream.
July 10, 2018 Tragic photo shows parents comforting daughter, 5, hours before her death An emotional photograph shows the parents of Zoey Daggett holding her in their arms just hours before her death.
July 7, 2018 Dr. Marc Siegel: The opioid crisis has a solution -- Here it is Locking up addicts in jail and prisons instead of providing the treatment they desperately need is the wrong way to deal with the opioid addiction epidemic.
