Painkillers

A contest deadline is approaching for West Virginia schoolchildren to raise awareness of prescription painkiller abuse.The Kids Kick Opioids contest is…

Several West Virginia municipalities are suing The Joint Commission, claiming the Chicago-based health care accreditation group downplayed the dangers of…

A former physician in West Virginia has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for writing a bogus prescription to get pain…

West Virginia's Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin and two colleagues have introduced legislation that would require all states getting certain federal…

Two major prescription drug distributors have agreed to pay $36 million to settle a West Virginia lawsuit alleging they fueled West Virginia's opioid…

West Virginia's attorney general has sued a third pharmacy alleging it dispensed too many prescription painkillers and violated state consumer protection…

West Virginia's attorney general has sued a second pharmacy alleging it dispensed too many prescription painkillers and violated state consumer protection…

Drug wholesalers shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia in just six years, a period when 1,728 people fatally overdosed on…

Information about pill shipments that prescription drug distributors being sued by the state had sought to keep secret show that the firms flooded rural…

A man has been sentenced to 11 years and seven months in prison for a Florida-to-West Virginia pain pill trafficking operation.Forty-six-year-old William…