An Indianapolis Police officer is facing felony charges after allegedly forging a prescription for painkillers.
IPD officer Mark Kuykendall was arrested at 4:45 Monday evening at a CVS pharmacy on the south side of Indianapolis. Police confirm the pain was from some surgeries that came after he was injured on duty.
Officer Kuykendall is an eight year veteran of IPD. Now he faces fel...
An Indianapolis police officer's arrest is putting a new focus on addiction to prescription drugs. Medical educator Alan Schmetzer says an addiction to prescription drugs can happen without the victim even knowing it.
"Our painkillers are pretty much medicines on which we become dependent. That is, they interact with the body in such a way that over time you have to have that medicati...
An Indianapolis policeman was charged Monday evening with altering a prescription for painkillers at the CVS Pharmacy in Decatur Township.
Marion County sheriff's deputies arrested Mark Kuykendall, a Heartland Crossing resident, after he left the CVS store on Kentucky Avenue Monday afternoon.
Kuykendall, an eight-year Indianapolis Police veteran, is assigned to the Indianapolis Nor...
By Georgetown University Medical Center , Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center say they now have a clearer picture of how an extract from the leaves of the Ginkgo biloba tree reduces the risk of aggressive cancer in animal experiments.
In the January-February issue of the journal Anticancer Research, the investigators reported that treating mice with an extract of leaves o...
Washington, DC -- Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center say they now have a clearer picture of how an extract from the leaves of the Ginkgo biloba tree reduces the risk of aggressive cancer in animal experiments.
In the January-February issue of the journal Anticancer Research, the investigators reported that treating mice with an extract of leaves of Ginkgo biloba both bef...
"God is testing me", said Dr. Robert Ladd as he was released from the Macon County Jail last Tuesday after posting a $25,000 bond.
The doctor, who has offices in the Westside and Red Boiling Springs areas of Macon County, was arrested at his Sumner County office Tuesday afternoon, February 7 by Jesse I. Richardson with the State of Tennessee Department of Finance and Administrati...
rescription pills caused nearly two-thirds of the drug overdose deaths in the state last year, according to authorities.
That comes as no surprise to a 22-year-old Brentwood man who says he was addicted for three years to OxyContin, a powerful prescription narcotic and painkiller.
"I've been to hell and back," said the young man, who spoke to the Portsmouth Herald on condition his ...
Pills responsible for more than half of N.H. drug deaths in 2005
Sam can list the friends he knows who've had their lives ruined by prescription pills as if he were reading from a telephone book.
"Dave, Rachel, Eli," Sam said. "OxyContin became a problem for my entire extended friend network. It took over us like the plague."
Sam (not his real name), 22, a graduate from a sma...
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