A major opioid manufacturer vows to stop marketing the drugs that are at the forefront a nationwide opioid addiction crisis. Purdue Pharma will no longer market opioids, including Oxycontin, to doctors and their patients.
Purdue was recently served with lawsuits linking the drug maker to the ongoing opioid crisis.
Rapper Wiz Khalifa, 30, is using his substantial platform to warn vulnerable youth about the dangers of popping pills and sipping Lean or Sizzurp.
Police in an Ohio city shared shocking photos on Facebook.com of a couple unconscious from a heroin overdose while a young boy sat in the backseat of their SUV.
According to gossip tabloid TMZ, rappers are offering up to $100,000 for bottles of Promethazine and Codeine cough syrup, otherwise known as Phenergan-Codeine (with a prescription) or "Sizzurp" and Purple Drank on the streets.
Actavis, the makers of Phenergan-Codeine cough syrup, are fed up with rappers and wannabes like Lil Wayne and Justin Bieber abusing their product for cheap highs.
Lil Wayne was sidelined last year with seizures -- a known side effect of Codeine abuse.
According to gossip website TMZ.com, troubled rapper Lil Wayne was released from Cedars-Sinai hospital yesterday, where he was treated for recurrent seizures related to a reported drug overdose.
Confusion reigned when Wayne was re-admitted to Cedars-Sinai on Friday after a bodyguard found him unconscious on the floor of his hotel room.
Sources on the west coast told several websites, including this one, that Wayne was on his death bed. But the rumors turned out to be false. A tweet allegedly sent from Wayne's phone only added to the confusion -- and confirmed suspicions that Wayne was in no condition to send the tweet himself.