The latest bad rap for OxyContin threatens to inflict more pain on those who truly benefit from the drug.

The pharmaceutical drug OxyContin is a potent pain reliever, often the only help for hundreds of thousands of patients who suffer serious, relentless pain. The drug has recently been in the spotlight for its use as a street narcotic, sold on the black market and responsible for addiction and overdose...

Non-governmental organizations are scrambling to come up with a new strategy following the release of the interim UN report on human rights abuses.

The problem with OxyContin is not the medicine itself, but its deliberate misuse.

OxyContin, the potent prescription painkiller, is in the spotlight.

OxyContin, which offers relief to patients with searing, prolonged agony due to diseases such as cancer, neurological illness and degenerative discs, is getting a bad rap.

During the recent democratic revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine, the local branches of the Orthodox Church acted in full concordance with liberal democratic values, supporting the desire of people in these countries for political freedoms. However, they were resisted at every turn by the nationalistic Russian Orthodox Church, which is tightly tied to a Russian state that is still trying to reassert control over its former dominions.

President Obama's passivity before the threatened foreign prosecution of Bush administration officials achieves by inaction what he fears doing directly.