Read more prescription drugs stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/4483/prescription-drugs.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:32:21 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74122/drugmakers-hike-prices-ahead-of-reform.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBracing for health care reform, drug companies have been raising prices at the fastest rate in almost 20 years—even as they pledge to support Washington's goal of cutting the nation's drug bill. The pharmaceutical industry is scrambling to get the price base as high as possible before legislation to...http://www.newser.com/story/74122/drugmakers-hike-prices-ahead-of-reform.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 16 Nov 2009 7:08:02 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73798/ama-mellows-on-medical-marijuana.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe American Medical Association has finally softened on marijuana, urging the government to give it a new classification that would open the door to serious research on its medical merits. Now a Schedule I drug, with no accepted medical uses, under the AMA proposal it would become a Schedule II...http://www.newser.com/story/73798/ama-mellows-on-medical-marijuana.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Nov 2009 9:12:15 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73615/big-pharma-flouts-laws-on-off-label-uses.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBack in 2004, a unit of drug giant Pfizer pleaded guilty to marketing a drug, Neurotonin, for unapproved uses, paid $430 million in fines, and promised to clean up its act—which it had no intention of doing. "At the very same time Pfizer was in our office negotiating and...http://www.newser.com/story/73615/big-pharma-flouts-laws-on-off-label-uses.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Nov 2009 8:19:14 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73389/sean-penns-son-dodges-drug-charges.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSean Penn’s son, arrested last week at his Malibu high school, is not facing drug charges. Sources close to the investigation say he was picked up for drug possession, but tell Radar that the drugs—no names given—were medications prescribed to Hopper, and that the district attorney's office has...http://www.newser.com/story/73389/sean-penns-son-dodges-drug-charges.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 05 Nov 2009 8:20:05 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72735/suit-wants-pharmacies-to-bust-drug-abusers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen a driver, high on painkillers, ran her car into two guys fixing a flat tire on the side of the highway, killing one of them, the victims' families filed a lawsuit—against the pharmacies that sold the painkillers. That case, pending before the Nevada Supreme Court, will be the...http://www.newser.com/story/72735/suit-wants-pharmacies-to-bust-drug-abusers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 28 Oct 2009 10:05:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72144/big-brother-winner-nabbed-for-peddling-oxy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBig Brother 9 winner Adam Jasinski made his first court appearance today in Massachusetts after being charged with trying to sell 2,000 prescription painkiller pills. After a brief struggle with agents, the DEA says Jasinski waived his Miranda rights and confessed to using his $500,000 winnings from the...http://www.newser.com/story/72144/big-brother-winner-nabbed-for-peddling-oxy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 20 Oct 2009 13:37:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69966/anna-nicole-had-lesbian-affair-with-drug-happy-shrink.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNewly unsealed documents in the Anna Nicole Smith investigation reveal the Playmate had a lesbian tryst with her psychiatrist, Khristine Eroshevich—the same psychiatrist who ordered a drug cocktail so dangerous that one pharmacist who refused to fill the order called it “pharmaceutical suicide,” the Los Angeles Times reports. Smith’s...http://www.newser.com/story/69966/anna-nicole-had-lesbian-affair-with-drug-happy-shrink.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 22 Sep 2009 9:07:34 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68385/dj-am-gobbled-9-oxycontin-before-death-source.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDJ AM was found dead with eight OxyContin pills in his stomach and another in his mouth, supporting the theory that he committed suicide, a law enforcement source tells People . He wanted to die," the source said. "He was going unconscious when he took the last one. He didn't even...http://www.newser.com/story/68385/dj-am-gobbled-9-oxycontin-before-death-source.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 02 Sep 2009 2:42:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68374/drug-giants-target-cancer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMajor drug companies are tying their fortunes to cancer like never before, the New York Times reports. The firms—inspired by advancements in science as well as the high prices cancer drugs command—are pouring unprecedented resources into the search for new cancer drugs. The drug giants hope cancer treatments...http://www.newser.com/story/68374/drug-giants-target-cancer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 02 Sep 2009 2:16:47 CDT