Kentucky sues Express Scripts, alleging it had a role in the deadly opioid addiction crisis ~health Article 834 words 15 votes
US Supreme Court rejects liability shield at center of Purdue Pharma settlement ~health medicine Article 1500 words 31 votes
The war on recovery: how the US is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic ~health medicine Article 4140 words, published Mar 5 2024 17 votes
EBay will pay $59 million settlement over pill presses sold online as US undergoes overdose epidemic ~health Article 929 words 10 votes
What a striking new study of death in America misses ~health Article 2480 words, published Oct 4 2023 15 votes
Size of McKinsey consulting firm opioid settlement increased by $230 million ~finance business Article 376 words 10 votes
There's hope for the US opioid crisis — but politics stands in the way ~health medicine Article 2582 words, published Jan 4 2021 8 votes
How the richest country in the world has allowed its poor to remain poor ~humanities Article 919 words, published Aug 17 2023 34 votes
US Supreme Court temporarily blocks $6 billion Purdue Pharma-Sackler bankruptcy ~finance business Article 441 words 28 votes
Inside Denmark's opioid crisis – more teens are abusing opioids because they take the pills both to get high and to cope with anxiety ~health.mental Article 673 words 3 votes
Sacklers raise their offer to settle opioid lawsuits by more than $1 billion ~health medicine Article 559 words 7 votes
The Sacklers, who made billions from OxyContin, win immunity from US opioid lawsuits ~health medicine Article 1345 words 10 votes
US states seek $2.2 trillion from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma: filings ~health medicine Article 649 words 15 votes
America’s first opioid epidemic: As the country struggles with a terrible opioid crisis, we remember a similar epidemic that raged through the US in the 1800s ~health healthcare medicine Article 960 words, published Aug 29 2019 6 votes
I was a drug rep. I know how pharma companies pushed opioids. ~health medicine Article 1671 words 12 votes
Sacklers would give up ownership of Purdue Pharma under settlement proposal ~health medicine Article 1022 words 11 votes
It’s not just for first responders anymore. Health experts want regular Coloradans to have Naloxone on hand ~health medicine Article 572 words 7 votes
Overdosing in Appalachia: Harm reduction strategies have their roots in 1980s HIV activism, but they are starting to spread in rural America in response to the opioid crisis ~health medicine Link 3 votes
Largest US drug companies flooded the country with seventy-six billion opioid pills, DEA data shows ~health medicine Article 3119 words 13 votes
Media frame: Fentanyl panic is worsening the overdose crisis ~health medicine Article 1319 words 5 votes
'This case will set a precedent': First major opioid trial to begin in Oklahoma ~health medicine Article 1180 words 4 votes
Lou Ortenzio was a trusted West Virginia doctor who got his patients—and himself—hooked on opioids. Now he’s trying to rescue his community from an epidemic he helped start. ~health medicine Article 5237 words 5 votes
There's a gold-standard treatment for opioid addiction, one of America's top killers. What keeps treatment centers from using it? ~health medicine Article 6589 words 11 votes
When the cure is worse than the disease ~health medicine Article 1603 words, published Feb 9 2019 13 votes
OxyContin maker explored expansion into “attractive” anti-addiction market ~health medicine Article 2460 words 7 votes
Damning court docs show just how far Sacklers went to push OxyContin ~health medicine Article 1331 words 8 votes
Americans more likely to die from accidental opioid overdose than in a car accident ~health medicine Article 531 words 12 votes
Sackler family members face mass litigation and criminal investigations over opioids crisis ~health medicine Article 4 votes
Sackler family members face mass litigation, criminal investigations over opioids crisis ~health medicine Article 1719 words 7 votes
Despite warnings, US FDA approves potent new opioid painkiller ~health medicine Article 946 words 7 votes
US DEA wants more marijuana grown and fewer opioids produced in 2019. Really. ~health medicine Article 760 words 8 votes
Text messaging tool may help fight opioid epidemic ~health medicine Article 988 words, published Apr 17 2018 6 votes
Cocaine deaths are rising at an alarming rate, and it’s because of fentanyl ~health Article 2680 words 5 votes