Bankrupt Purdue buys time to advance $7.4 billion opioid deal
Purdue Pharma said on Friday it needs more time to build support for a new $7.4 billion settlement that could complete the ...
NY paramedics could get a tool to help opioid abusers break the habit
Proponents of the plan to equip paramedics with buprenorphine call it the "missing link" in the bridge to recovery for many ...
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Commentary: Opioid overdoses are falling, but the trauma persists
Rather than further criminalizing substance use disorder, we must legitimize trauma-informed care as a key pathway to ending ...
Opioid overdose deaths throughout Midwest most strongly linked to a lack of economic upward mobility, study finds
The unprecedented increase in drug overdose deaths in the U.S., long believed to be driven by access to legal and illegal ...
The opioid crisis is a crime. So addiction treatment should be free.
For people who study the opioid epidemic, 2025 marks a grim anniversary: It has been 30 years since the Food and Drug ...
Movie shows opioid epidemic from the perspective of those in the middle of it
A movie filmed in eastern Kentucky last summer is making the rounds in movie theatres all over the world. The movie is called ...
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Englewood Health's Strategies to Combat Rising Opioid Use in Post-Pandemic America
Vinnidhy Dave, D.O., hospice specialist and director of palliative medicine at Englewood Health Physician Network, and Lauren Savage, director of population health at Englewood Hospital, discuss what ...
There’s a new opioid antidote. But Mass. health officials are hesitant to endorse it
A new "powerful tool" for combatting opioid deaths isn't settled science. For that reason, the state is taking a measured ...
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NY to receive up to $250M in landmark $7.4B opioid settlement
The agreement also ends the Sacklers’ control of Purdue Pharma and prohibits them from selling opioids in the United States.
Massachusetts to receive more than $100 million from landmark opioid settlement with Purdue Pharma, Sacklers
Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion ...
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Nearly half of Ohio's opioid settlement money is untraceable, according to new database
A new database tracks how state and local governments across the country are spending billions of dollars in opioid ...
Sackler family, Purdue Pharma reach $7.4 billion settlement with 15 states over opioid crisis
The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, the maker of the addictive painkiller oxycontin, have reached a $7.4 billion settlement ...