Researchers investigate factors that influence the choice of abused drugs, and report their findings in a new article. Prescription opioid abuse has reached epidemic levels in the past 15 years.

Two pharmacists for a Columbia-area chain of drugstores testified Tuesday in a federal criminal drug trafficking trial that an Irmo doctor’s Oxycodone prescriptions were numerous enough to make them ...

The quality of the 'high' that its abusers experience was the key reason for the widespread popularity of oxycodone, which along with hydrocodone is the drug of choice for more than three quarters of ...

The current neurobiologic framework for understanding addiction rests upon the nearly ubiquitous manifestation of dopamine surges within the mesolimbic system of the brain, including nucleus accumbens ...