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The boom in the Bakken that has brought thousands of workers into the area, has also brought organized crime, complete with drugs, prostitution and gun violence.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has responded to a request by Montana Attorney General Tim Fox and 42 other attorney's general to create new labeling rules for opioid drugs. “The opioid epidemic has taken the lives of many Americans and has affected many people, including newborn children,” Fox said...

A Great Falls woman was smart enough to take her child to the Benefis Hospital after the 9 month old began acting strangely, but only after she allowed him to indgest methamphetamine.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A medical marijuana provider facing more than 80 years in prison and the forfeiture of $1.7 million has reached a post-conviction plea agreement that dismisses six of eight drug-related convictions as long as Chris Williams agrees not to appeal. The agreement was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Helena.

A new study of 8,000 kids published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health finds those who had high IQs were more likely to use certain illicit drugs as they aged. Smarter girls in particular may tend to experiment with marijuana, cocaine, and other illicit drugs later on.

While researchers are reluctant to call idebenone a cure for blindness, the drug has restored the vision of some people who suffer from hereditary blindness in a recent clinical study.

An unprecedented wave of drug patent expirations in the next year will usher in generics that will dramatically reduce the prices of some of world’s best-selling medications, including cholesterol drug Lipitor and blood thinner Plavix. Other drugs used to treat conditions such as asthma, diabetes, HIV and depression will also be affected. “My estimation is at least 15 percent of the population is