Dr. Sarah Jones was acquitted on criminal charges related to overprescribing. She has now reached a settlement agreement with the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Trial dates have been set for Feb. 21 to 28 and March 1 to 7.

Health Canada doesn't think requiring potent painkillers to be tamper-resistant will have a significant effect on their misuse and abuse in Canada.

The questions have been raised after a doctor in Tantallon was recently charged with drug trafficking.

A Nova Scotia doctor is facing numerous charges after police allege she prescribed more than 50,000 oxycodone pills to a patient who did not receive them.

Readers share their stories of struggling with opioid use, abuse and addiction.

Prescription opioids kill hundreds of Canadians a year. Why are doctors still prescribing so many?

Mounties have seized more than 10,000 prescription pills from a home in Red Deer, Alta.

Ontario needs to rethink the way it treats addiction and pain if it wants to tackle a worsening prescription opioid health crisis, critics say.

Preliminary 2013 data from Ontario's coroner indicates these powerful drugs are killing more people each year - and the usual suspects are being replaced by drugs that are just as addictive and even more potent.