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Tracking the opioid lawsuit settlements amidst calls for oversight
Pharmaceutical Technology via Yahoo Finance· 15 hours agoIn 2019, Purdue Pharma, the maker of opioid painkiller OxyContin, faced extensive litigation for its...
US overdose deaths decline slightly in 2023, CDC reports
FOX 10 Phoenix· 24 hours agoDr. Caleb Alexander, epidemiologist and drug safety expert at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of...
The U.S. Is Easing Marijuana Restrictions. Here’s How It Works.
New York Times· 4 hours agoA new federal rule would reclassify marijuana as a less-dangerous, Schedule III drug. The Biden...
Fatal drug overdoses decreased in 2023, CDC reports
WJBK fox local articles via Yahoo News· 20 hours ago"What I’m seeing in particular is that users are, now more than ever, buying these counterfeit pills in order to get high," said licensed psychologist and addiction counselor ...
Three doctors who helped fuel drug abuse in southeastern Kentucky sentenced to prison
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIt is a legal drug used in treating addiction to opioid painkillers because it blocks withdrawal...
A tribe in Maine is using opioid settlement funds on a sweat lodge to treat addiction
NPR· 4 days ago"This is going to absolutely be fundamental to our patients' well-being" because connecting with...
Kentucky doctor sentenced to 20 years over prescribing that led to patient’s death
Lexington Herald-Leader McClatchy via AOL· 3 days agoDefense attorneys argued that Sadrinia was convicted based on a single prescription to a person who...
Walgreens is launching a generic version of over-the-counter Narcan
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 day agoWalgreens said Wednesday that it will sell its own generic version of over-the-counter Narcan, the...
CT OKs $8M in opioid settlement money for a range of services
Hartford Business Journal· 1 day agoThe committee members, which are responsible for allocating the state’s share of several national...
U.S. drug deaths decline, hinting at progress against opioid crisis
The Raw Story· 11 hours agoDrug overdose deaths in the United States declined last year for the first time since 2018, provisional data released Wednesday showed, suggesting tentative progress in combating the opioid ...