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It was no surpriseTommy Chongshowed up inColoradolast Sunday at the so-calledMile High420 Festival. The onetime comedian and sometime actor was best k...

YORK — To fight prescription drug misuse, National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day creates convenient ways to dispose of medication that could otherwi...

Is the Washington Post journalistically challenged when it comes to science? You decide. An April 6 article in the WaPo , one of the most recent as th...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., joined Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., to introduce the Bureau of Prisons Security Check and Action against N...

As part of his plan to juice tax revenues for his 2025-26 budget, Gov. Josh Shapiro is proposing to legalize and tax recreational marijuana — which he...

HARRISBURG — Lawmakers are hoping to expand and improve upon a 2015 law that offers grants to county jails treating inmates experiencing substance use...

How many of us know what goes into the development of the medications we take? We take a medicine and hope that it will work, that we’ll feel better s...

(TNS) With the rise of obesity drugs a pair of Penn State researchers set out to answer a question: could drugs aimed at weight loss help battle opioi...

HARRISBURG – Attorney General Dave Sunday joined a multi-state coalition in a letter to the U.S. Senate asking for passage of the HALT Fentanyl Act, w...

DuBOIS — When you take more than one medication a day, it’s easy to sometimes forget to take a pill. In fact, practically everyone has missed taking a...

ST. MARYS — City of St. Marys Police Department Sgt. Mike Shaffer introduced K-9 Officer Draco on Dec. 20 following the retirement ceremony of his pre...

McKean County District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer reported the McKean County Detective Bureau received credible information that an extreme...

Cancer patients can ward off waves of vomiting after treatment with a relatively cheap anti-nausea pill, but some are running into coverage limits. Do...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Independence Health System has introduced a new service that capitalizes on an overwhelming patient medical need and two new medici...

(Editor’s note: The information in this special series is for educational purposes only and is not intended to address any particular case, nor should...