To kick off the launch of the safe medication disposal program in California, Walgreens will host a series of events with local lawmakers working to fight the drug abuse crisis in the state leading up ...

California’s recycling regulator is turning up the heat on one of the state’s key drug disposal players, moving to hit the ...

Medication theft from the home is a leading cause of prescription drug overdose deaths, but nearly 70 percent of prescription opioid medications kept in homes with children are not stored safely, ...

Twice a year—in April and October—the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) hosts National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, an initiative designed to mitigate the dangers of unused or expired ...

The abuse of prescription drugs has become widespread over the past several years. Cowlitz County got its wake-up call a couple of years ago, when area law enforcement rounded up nearly two dozen ...

The recent demise of a Drug Enforcement Administration program has left local police scrambling to figure out what to do with unwanted drugs collected from the public. Thanks to EPIC -- Early ...