LAS VEGAS (AP) - Thanksgiving and Christmas came and went, and Jan hardly noticed. She slept a lot, trying to get off the prescription painkillers that consumed her days. She crashed her car for the ...

Eye-catching billboards recently have gone up along some of Waco’s busiest roadways to try to capture a slice of an increasingly booming business — the treatment of people addicted to pain pills. But ...

Although it is a common misconception that an addiction to powerful painkillers can only manifest after long periods of abuse, a new study has found that it is actually possible for people to become ...

March 9, 2011 (Orlando, Florida) — Editor's note: Patients who are addicted to drugs pose a special challenge when they present with pain at hospital emergency departments (EDs). Clinicians struggle ...

A new study finds chronic pain patients show a high prevalence of addiction to prescription pain medications, according to a news release by Geisinger Health System. The study by Geisinger researchers ...

Bogle described the back fracture as the worst pain he’d ever felt. In agony and struggling to sleep, he turned to sleeping pills and, similarly to the painkillers he was taking, at the beginning, he ...

Shaquille O’Neal was candid about his use of pain pills and the “lifetime ban on strip clubs” that he sentenced himself to after going off the rails during his NBA career. During an appearance on the ...