Sacklers Up Their Offer to Settle Purdue Opioids Cases, With a New Condition
A group of 15 states have reached a tentative new deal that would require them to set aside hundreds of millions of dollars ...
Texas one of 15 states to reach $7.4 billion opioid settlement with Purdue Pharma
Texas and 14 other states have secured a $7.4 billion settlement from the Sackler family and their company, Purdue Pharma, for their roles in creating the opioid crisis. Purdue Pharma was the ...
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Complaint: Walgreens fueled opioid crisis, ignored red flags, filled unlawful prescriptions
Examples of opioids include morphine, heroin, codeine, oxycodone, hydrocodone and fentanyl. If Walgreens is found liable, it could face civil penalties of up to $80,850 for each unlawful ...
Opioid overdose deaths throughout Midwest most strongly linked to a lack of economic upward mobility, Boston College study finds
The unprecedented increase in drug overdose deaths in the U.S., long believed to be driven by access to legal and illegal opioids, is most closely tied to an equally dramatic decline in upward income ...
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Smoking opioids is associated with lower mortality than injecting but is still high-risk
A new study published today in the scientific journal Addiction has found that opioid smoking appears to be associated with lower mortality risk compared with opioid injecting. The authors, however, ...