By Lisa Buie, Times Staff Writer Friday, January 6, 2012 Affiliated with Florida Hospital Zephyrhills, Dr. Maulik Bhalani is a certified pain specialist. Whenever police shut down a pill mill and lead a doctor away in handcuffs, Dr. Maulik Bhalani cringes. Not that he isn’t glad to see the white-coated drug dealers caught. But as someone who is board-certified and fellowship-trained in …

Burning Tree, a long term treatment center in Texas, announces plans to redouble efforts in the war against OxyContin addiction and abuse.Austin, Texas (PRWEB) January 06, 2012 The continuing rise in OxyContin abuse nationwide—combined with more high profile pharmacy robbery cases involving the prescription pain killer in 2011—has prompted a Texas treatment center to double efforts against this …

A new pain pill, one more powerful than OxyContin and 10 times stronger than Vicodin, is being tested on patients by four drug companies and could be out as early as 2013. The new medicine, which is a pure form of hydrocodone, has law enforcement in Eastern Kentucky worried, reports Ralph B. Davis of the Floyd County Times.

Told he had only months to live and given 14 times the painkillers his previous doctor prescribed, Charles Groomes died years later

Washington state will issue a public health advisory that singles out the unique risks of methadone, a commonly prescribed pain medicine that’s linked to the most accidental overdose deaths.

A Va. doctor is among four people arrested in an investigation involving the illegal selling prescription pain medications