A fan favorite TLC reality star recently opened up about her struggle with oxycodone addiction. Sister Wives star Christine Brown revealed in her new book that she developed dependency on painkillers ...

The 53-year-old reality star — who appears on the TLC show with her ex-husband Kody Brown and their polygamist family — revealed in her new memoir that she started taking oxycodone in 2016, after ...

Sister Wives star Christine Brown got candid about a lot of topics in her new book — including an addiction to oxycodone that started after a knee surgery. Brown, 53, revealed that she developed a ...

For people who study the opioid epidemic, 2025 marks a grim anniversary: It has been 30 years since the Food and Drug Administration approved the opioid OxyContin for the treatment of chronic pain.

Despite the growing prevalence of addiction among seniors, many cases go undetected even in health care settings where older adults seek care.

Two of the owners of the company that makes OxyContin acknowledged to a congressional committee on Thursday that the powerful prescription painkiller has played a role in the national opioid crisis ...

During the New Year holidays, I came across a non-fiction contemporaneous book entitled The Empire of Pain by Patrick Ra ...

Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, is testing the pain drug in kids ages 6 to 16 July 3, 2012— -- The maker of the powerful pain drug OxyContin is beginning to test the medicine in children, ...