The DEA wants people to remove unused prescription medications from their homes and dispose of them properly.

A man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly possessing Oxycodone and a loaded gun in his car.

The DEA’s annual National Drug Take Back Day is on Saturday, April 27, 2024.

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day returns on Saturday, Oct. 28, with plenty of drop-off locations around Metro Detroit.

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day returns on Saturday, Oct. 28, with plenty of drop-off locations around Metro Detroit.

New data shows that the number of prescription opioid pills shipped in the U.S. continued to fall through the late 2010s even as the nation's overdose crisis deepened.

Mexico has closed 23 pharmacies at Caribbean coast resorts, six months after a research report warned that drug stores in Mexico were offering foreigners pills they passed off as Oxycodone, Percocet, and Adderall.

A West Bloomfield doctor on Monday pleaded guilty to illegally distributing prescription drugs to patients without proper examination.

Get rid of expired or unused medications at this upcoming event at the University of Michigan.

The nation’s top public health agency has revised its guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers.

Drop off unused or expired medications in Ypsilanti this Saturday.

A grieving Birmingham family says enough is enough, as they’ve joined a lawsuit seeking damages from the social media site Snapchat over the death of their son.

Drop off unused or expired medications for safe disposal at this upcoming event.

The head of the Food and Drug Administration says a government review of prescription opioid medications, including their risks and contribution to the U.S. overdose epidemic, is still underway.

The nation’s top public health agency is proposing changing — and in some instances, softening — guidelines for doctors prescribing opioid painkillers.

Drop off any unused of expired medications at U-M on Oct. 5.

MSP requested a police woman to perform a search on the pregnant driver, which is when they found the driver wasn’t pregnant, but was wearing a stuffed pouch under her shirt.

A retired high-ranking official with the Drug Enforcement Administration has testified that three large opioid distributors had a “systematic failure” in monitoring suspicious pill orders.

DETROIT – Four doctors, two nurse practitioners and three pharmacists are among the 19 people who have been indicted in connection with an elaborate drug scheme that went on for years, officials said. The opioid epidemic is still very much a problem in Metro Detroit, with people addicted to and dying from pain pills, heroin and fentanyl. Oxycodone, Percocet and hydrocodone are powerful pain pills that were pedaled on the streets for cash. “These people are greedy and they don’t care about the average citizen,” said Steve Dolunt, the former assistant Detroit police chief. “Average people, some people, have pain,” Dolunt said.