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Why Big Pharma wants to keep these opioid lawsuits out of court.
After a meeting with the Chinese President, Trump continues to blame China for the opioid crisis. You know, rather than getting to the root...
The Council of Economic Advisors' report throws the inadequacy of the Trump administration's response to the opioid crisis into even sharper relief.
Although President Trump promised the American people last week that he would soon declare the opioid epidemic a national emergency, neither he or his...
It didn’t take long for America to conquer both prescription pain pills and the sea of good old William S. Burroughs-worthy street heroin that...
It’s wrong to call the opiate crisis an “epidemic.” Ucontrollable spreads of mosquito-borne diseases like malaria or Zika are epidemics. Humans can do a...
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday called drug overdose deaths “the top lethal issue” in the U.S. and urged...
For more than a decade, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been dealing with a quiet crisis in a way similar to how...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A picture in VCU Health’s ambulatory center downtown looks, from a distance, like a tree. “But if you get closer,”...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An organization representing Ohio big-city mayors is urging Gov. John Kasich to establish a dedicated emergency operations center to coordinate...
People who survive an opioid overdose are often prescribed the same dangerous drugs that had them one foot in the grave, a new study...
Over 40 years ago, Denise Kandel introduced her gateway drug theory to the world. Recently, Kandel herself, a scientist at Columbia University, debunked that theory in a...
BEIJING (AP) — China has been an “incredible partner” in cracking down on synthetic opioids seen as fueling fast-rising overdose deaths in the United...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation’s largest pharmacy benefit manager will soon limit the number and strength of opioid drugs prescribed to first-time users...
NEW YORK (AP) — After years of decline, teen deaths from drug overdoses have inched up, a new U.S. government report shows. The drop...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Police in Massachusetts are testing a new database for documenting opioid overdoses they hope will help departments share information in...
The underbelly of the capitalist beast that is the United States government is working to get to the bottom of the claims that have...
BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will officially declare the opioid crisis a “national emergency” and pledged to ramp...