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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 medicine Article 559 words 7 votes
The Sacklers, who made billions from OxyContin, win immunity from US opioid lawsuits medicine Article 1345 words 10 votes
US states seek $2.2 trillion from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma: filings 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 healthcare medicine Article 960 words, published Aug 29 2019 6 votes
Sacklers would give up ownership of Purdue Pharma under settlement proposal medicine Article 1022 words 11 votes
It’s not just for first responders anymore. Health experts want regular Coloradans to have Naloxone on hand 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 medicine Link 3 votes
Largest US drug companies flooded the country with seventy-six billion opioid pills, DEA data shows medicine Article 3119 words 13 votes
'This case will set a precedent': First major opioid trial to begin in Oklahoma 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. 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? medicine Article 6589 words 11 votes
OxyContin maker explored expansion into “attractive” anti-addiction market medicine Article 2460 words 7 votes
Damning court docs show just how far Sacklers went to push OxyContin medicine Article 1331 words 8 votes
Americans more likely to die from accidental opioid overdose than in a car accident medicine Article 531 words 12 votes
Sackler family members face mass litigation and criminal investigations over opioids crisis medicine Article 4 votes
Sackler family members face mass litigation, criminal investigations over opioids crisis medicine Article 1719 words 7 votes
US DEA wants more marijuana grown and fewer opioids produced in 2019. Really. medicine Article 760 words 8 votes
Text messaging tool may help fight opioid epidemic medicine Article 988 words, published Apr 17 2018 6 votes
Cocaine deaths are rising at an alarming rate, and it’s because of fentanyl Article 2680 words 5 votes