Tag: DEA
Alabamians encouraged to participate in Prescription Drug Take-Back Day
Do you have unused prescription drugs collecting dust in your medicine cabinet? Well it's time to clean them out this Saturday.
Saturday marks the 16th...
Hill panel probing opioids abuse targets distributor firms
Congressional investigators say wholesale pharmaceutical distributors shipped hundreds of millions of prescription opioid pills to West Virginia, a state disproportionately ravaged by deaths caused...
Mobile, Ala. joins the fights against opioid manufacturers
The City of Mobile, Ala. is hoping to hold the companies it says is responsible for dumping millions of dollars' worth of prescription opiates into...
Feds investigate dozens of thefts of opioids, other drugs at VA...
Federal authorities are investigating dozens of new cases of possible opioid and other drug theft by employees at Veterans Affairs hospitals, a sign the...
A look at border security, fencing as Donald Trump announces wall
President Donald Trump announced his long-awaited plan Wednesday to build a wall on the 1,954-mile U.S. border with Mexico, calling for its "immediate construction"...
5 things to know about America’s synthetic-opioid epidemic
Government scientists say they're seeing the emergence of a new class of deadly drugs built to mimic the potent prescription painkiller fentanyl. What you...
Alabama to participate in National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day
It's time to clean out the medicine cabinet — the National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day is this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Considering Alabama has...
Alabama bans ‘Kratom’ over addiction and abuse fears
A little-known plant-based substance often sold as an herbal supplement to address chronic pain is raising alarm bells in states concerned that it could...
Gov. Robert Bentley speaks out against “pill mill” doctors amid federal...
Gov. Robert Bentley has made remarks about an epidemic of unscrupulous doctors intentionally over-prescribing powerfully addictive painkillers across the South, recently highlighted by a...
