The University of Maryland School of Dentistry is taking steps to curb opioid misuse using new software paired with a state database.According to the American Dental Association, dentists write about ...

Think you can keep a medical condition secret from life insurers by paying cash for prescription meds? Think again. A for-profit service called ScriptCheck exists to rat you out regardless of how ...

The new budget deal dedicates millions of dollars to fighting the state's heroin crisis.Click to view News 9's coverage.The money will help fund technology used by doctors to get a handle on addiction ...

After you see a doctor, he or she gains access to all the prescriptions you're taking, which is necessary for proper care. However, that prescription history is valuable to many companies as well.

WOONSOCKET, R.I. As Americans begin gathering their receipts for healthcare expenditures this tax season, CVS/pharmacy is urging patients to access their prescription history through CVS.com. Patients ...

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A House bill introduced on Aug. 30 would create a nationwide Prescription Safety Alert System, designed to better protect patients at risk of opioid overuse. If passed, the Analyzing and Leveraging ...

Pharmacies and doctors are legally bound to safeguard your prescription records. But some of that information can still be shared and used in ways you might not expect, like when you apply for life ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — By the time the 59-year-old woman overdosed in the late summer of 2013, she’d been given 75 prescriptions by three primary care doctors, a psychiatrist and a pain specialist in ...

In December 2016, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act, which included $1 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic. The Cures Act allocation is the latest government effort to ...