prescription drugs

Legalizing marijuana for recreational use has always seemed to make sense to me, simply because it’s being illegal now feeds the drug cartels that control its market here in the United States. However according to some, we run the risk of creating a generation of drug addicts once it becomes legal; although I'm certainly not one of them...

If you like America’s pastime and you have some used prescription drugs lying around the house, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office has a deal for you.

A New Jersey doctor faces sentencing in Trenton for her role in an illegal oxycodone distribution ring.

Popular prescriptions for high cholesterol, heart disease and even cancer treatments are among the list of drugs that had generic versions delayed intentionally.

The State Commission of Investigation (SCI) just wrapped up a more than year-long probe into prescription drug and heroin abuse in New Jersey.

Following yesterday’s report by the State Commission of Investigation (SCI) on its findings about prescription drugs and heroin abuse in New Jersey, Assembly Republicans Mary Pat Angelini and Dave Wolfe reiterated their call for consideration of a bill they introduced on June 10 that seeks to curb such abuses by revising provisions of the Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP).

Dirty doctors, some with ties to organized crime are running illegal medical practices in New Jersey.

Scheming entrepreneurs and corrupt physicians, some with ties to organized crime, are running illicit medical practices in New Jersey.

Middle-aged women account for the fastest-growing share of overdose deaths in the U.S., and their drug of choice is usually prescription painkillers, the government reported Tuesday.

Ocean County law enforcement officials have launched a multi-phase approach to battle a dramatic increase in heroin addiction and overdose deaths in its boarders.