Midazolam—a sedative used in three botched executions this year—is included in two of four drug combinations that can now be used by Oklahoma executioners ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- It's been less than a week since New York City opened its first supervised injection sites, and the mayor says many lives have already been saved. Mayor Bill de Blasio says ...

Drug overdoses claimed the lives of more than 109,000 people in the United States in 2022, the highest number on record and a stark indication of the toll taken by the nation's opioid epidemic. Nearly ...

LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — The twice-arrested heroin user listened nervously as the judge reviewed her record, then offered a deal he thinks could save her life. “You’re not a criminal, you’re an addict,” ...

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In the weeks leading up to what was expected to be a second attempt to execute Idaho’s longest-serving death row prisoner, state prison officials found they had a problem: Their lethal injection drugs ...

The South Carolina State House in Columbia, South Carolina on Thursday, March 9, 2023. Joshua Boucher jboucher@thestate.com South Carolina is ready to resume executions by lethal injection. In a press ...

Doctors at DAP Health have begun administering a new twice-a-year injectable HIV prevention medication, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in June. Gilead's drug lenacapavir ...

(RTTNews) - Sagent Pharmaceuticals has recalled two lots of chemotherapy drug Docetaxel Injection, USP due to potential presence of particulate matter from the stopper in the drug, according to the ...