While use of methamphetamine is down in Gilbert, heroin and prescription drugs are on the uptick, according to the Gilbert Police Department.

LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — As he sat in the doctor's office, ex-boxer and weightlifter Gerald Dixon explained that years of sports had left him in pain, especially his hands, and he was looking for relief.

Chandler police are warning parents across the Valley about growing numbers of teenagers whose abuse of some prescription drugs has spiraled into an addiction to heroin.

A former Chandler plastic surgeon is among a group of four colleagues accused of running a prescription drug ring that used and sold pain pills.

Early last month, a report came to several community agencies stating there had been an apparent eight drug overdose deaths in seven days in Maricopa County.

SAN FRANCISCO - Christopher Patterson, co-owner of High Street Pharmacy in Oakland, Calif., didn't panic when two young thieves in masks walked in last month and pointed a gun at him. He and his staff simply gave them what they wanted: the store's entire supply of a prescription narcotic cough syrup that that sells for up to $200 a bottle on the street.

The Holistic Farmer’s Market is no more because of a lack of attendance, but the person behind it has now turned her attention to another venture – medicinal marijuana.

Students, faculty and visitors to the state's three universities are going to have to go without their medical marijuana even though it's legal under state law.

Students, faculty and visitors to the state's three universities are going to have to go without their medical marijuana even though it's legal under state law.

Students, faculty and visitors to the state's three universities are going to have to go without their medical marijuana even though it's legal under state law.

A group representing would-be medical marijuana dealers is objecting to what it says are burdensome - and illegal - rules being proposed by the state health department.

A group representing would-be medical marijuana dealers is objecting to what it says are burdensome - and illegal - rules being proposed by the state health department.

A group representing would-be medical marijuana dealers is objecting to what it says are burdensome - and illegal - rules being proposed by the state health department.

A frazzled mother on a crowded flight tries to coax a screaming baby to sleep as surrounding passengers stare -- some in empathy, some in barely disguised annoyance. When the child doesn't calm down, the parent discreetly pulls a bottle of children's Benadryl from a diaper bag and administers a small dose.

Gov. Jan Brewer said Wednesday voters should reject Proposition 203 at least in part because it would let someone get marijuana with a doctor's recommendation rather than an actual prescription.

It isn’t even legal yet. And it won’t be unless voters approve.

Harrison Hays would take a couple bottles of water with him to bed each night.

Harrison Hays would take a couple bottles of water with him to bed each night.

Harrison Hays was grabbed so violently by a devilish little pill that little else mattered.

Harrison Hays was grabbed so violently by a devilish little pill that little else mattered.