What started as a medical solution for pain management spiraled into a nationwide addiction crisis. Drugs like OxyContin, fentanyl and hydrocodone—once praised as breakthroughs—became some of the ...
The official sum of opioid-related settlements between U.S. state and local governments and major pharmaceutical opioid ...
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South Carolina sees second consecutive drop in overdose deaths but still faces opioid epidemic
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – South Carolina sees a decline in fatal drug overdoses for the second year in a row, but the ...
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a serious and complex condition affecting millions of people across the country and contributing to a national public health emergency. Yet stigma and misinformation about ...
Boxes of Narcan sit on the top of a refrigerator in case of an overdose in Lexington, Kentucky, on May 23. (Michael Swensen for The Washington Post) Drug overdose deaths from synthetic opioids — ...
New York-based Fair Health recently conducted a study on national opioid practices. The nonprofit data bank analyzed anonymous claims data — provided by insurers — that contained information for 150 ...
The opioid epidemic that started in the late 1990s has taken a staggering toll. We have lost more people to drug overdoses than in all the wars since the beginning of the past century. Sadly, although ...
The next fentanyl may not come from drug cartels and basement labs — but your local truck stop. Pharmacist TikToker Grant Harting recently bought a gas station pill with ‘super concentrated’ amounts ...
A white van rattles northward on Staten Island's narrow roads, rumbling past wooded lots and vinyl-sided homes beneath a web of electrical wires and telephone lines. One of its passengers is ...
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