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Linda E. Hurley

Hurley receives National Council for Mental Wellbeing Lifetime Achievement Award

LINDA E. HURLEY, CEO and president of CODAC Behavioral Health Care in Cranston, recently received the National Council for Mental Wellbeing’s Lifetime Achievement Award....
Philip Eil  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Five Questions With: Philip Eil

Philip Eil | Journalist and author, "Prescription for Pain: How A Once Promising Doctor Became the ‘Pill Mill Killer’ " 1. You’re a Rhode Island-based...

Do you support the proposed federal rule to reclassify marijuana as...

The U.S. Justice Department on May 16 moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, which would mark a significant shift in federal...

Cumberland man to plead guilty after record seizure of fake Adderall...

PROVIDENCE – A Cumberland man has agreed to plead guilty following his arrest connected to the seizure of the largest amount of counterfeit Adderall...

North Attleboro man charged with distributing steroids, money laundering

PROVIDENCE – David M. Esser, 47, of North Attleboro, has been arrested and charged with conspiring to distribute anabolic steroids and money laundering, U.S....
CVS DISTRIBUTED 7.7% of all opioid pills in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012, according to newly available data from the DEA. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/CHRISTOPHER LEE

WaPo: Opioid distributors, including CVS, cited in DEA data

PROVIDENCE – There were 76 billion opioid pills distributed in the United States over a seven-year period from 2006 to 2012, according to a...
RHODE ISLAND COLLECTED more than 3,000 pounds of unused, discarded prescriptions during National Drug Take-Back Day on April 28. / COURTESY DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION

R.I. nets 3K lbs. of surplus prescriptions for National Drug Take-Back...

PROVIDENCE – The Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England Field Division collected 44 tons of expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs at 580 collection sites...
CVS HEALTH has committed to installing 900 drug disposal kiosks in its stores throughout the United States. There are 500 installed so far. / COURTESY CVS HEALTH

CVS drug disposal program collects 350K pounds of unwanted medication

WOONSOCKET – CVS Health announced its drug disposal program had collected 350,000 pounds of unwanted medicine on April 26, two days before National Prescription...
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