Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, is testing the pain drug in kids ages 6 to 16 July 3, 2012— -- The maker of the powerful pain drug OxyContin is beginning to test the medicine in children, ...

Rapper Kodak Black is finally a free man after being locked up in Miami for two months. The entertainer, born Bill Kahan Kapri, is no stranger to legal troubles and was sentenced to spend time behind ...

Kodak Black bumped into some legal trouble last December after police discovered him asleep at the wheel of his car with a substance that was originally said to be cocaine in his mouth. Now, the ...

A reformulation of OxyContin that makes it harder to abuse has curtailed the drug's illicit use. But some 25 percent of drug abusers entering rehab said they still abused the prescription painkiller ...

A Manhattan, N.Y.-based physician and eight others have been charged for allegedly distributing oxycodone pills through a Manhattan-based drug ring, according to a news release by the Drug Enforcement ...

A New Windsor man was one of eight people accused Wednesday of conspiring to illegally distribute more than 1.2 million oxycodone pills through an operation based in a doctor's office in Brooklyn. The ...

Rapper Kodak Black stuffed oxycodone in his mouth, not cocaine, before he was arrested for drug possession and other charges last month in South Florida, prosecutors said. According to information ...

Stamford, Conn.-based Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin, announced successful results from a stage three clinical trial on its hydrocodone drug designed to prevent misuse and abuse of the ...