The government is currently investigating 120 deaths among patients using patches containing the painkiller fentanyl, warning patients Friday to properly use the narcotic, in order to avoid a potentially fatal overdose.

The Food and Drug Administration is currently investigating whether the deaths were related to inappropriate use of the painkiller or the quality of the product

More than 2 million of the 15 million Americans that admit to abusing prescription drugs, are under age 17.

A report released by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, went on to say that the number of 12-to-17-year-olds who abused controlled prescription drugs rose 212 percent, while the number of adults jumped 81 percent

A study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, at Columbia University, reveals doctors' and pharmacists' limited training contributes to the rapidly growing problem of prescription drug abuse.

The study pinpoints another factor involving the accessibility of the drugs from doctors, friends, relatives, and the Internet

Two medical ethics experts believe that prisoner's medical records may have been used to the military's advantage in Guantanamo Bay, in order to find the best way to get prisoners to talk.

The Pentagon's top health official said the allegation is "an outrageous distortion" of what actually was going on at the prison camp in Cuba

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is hospitalized Tuesday after suffering a mild stroke and fainting in his home. He later regains consciousness at a local military hospital.

Pinochet, 89, has suffered several strokes in recent years, including one a month ago for which he was also hospitalized