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Addiction

Pharmalot

Pharmalittle: N.H. city considers the latest opioid lawsuit; drug industry middlemen criticized, again

By Rebecca Robbins

Health

In one night, she lost two sons to opioids. She’s on a mission to spare others that unfathomable pain

By Megan Thielking

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Hospitals

The cost of treating opioid overdose victims is skyrocketing

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Politics

Trump to declare national emergency over opioids two days after top aide rejected notion

By Andrew Joseph

Health

32 churches and no methadone clinic: struggling with addiction in an opioid ‘treatment desert’

By Brian Rinker — California Healthline

Pharmalot

How many doctors have received payments from opioid makers? Look here

By Ed Silverman

Politics

White House rejects appeal to call national emergency over opioid epidemic

By Erin Mershon and Andrew Joseph

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First Opinion

There’s little evidence abuse-deterrent opioids work. Why should we use them?

By C. Bernie Good, Chronis Manolis, and William Shrank

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Pharmalot

Abuse-deterrent opioids aren’t effective enough and are too expensive, ICER report says

By Ed Silverman

Health

‘Doctors are getting shot’: Navigating the perils of pain pill prescribing in the midst of an opioid crisis

Special Report

A doctor’s murder over an opioid prescription leaves an Indiana city with no easy answers

By Megan Thielking

Health

Doctors who attend lower-tier medical schools prescribe far more opioids, study finds

Politics

Trump is on his way to an epicenter of the opioid crisis. Here’s what he’ll find

By Andrew Joseph

Health

One state takes a novel approach to opioid addiction: access to treatment for all inmates

By Andrew Joseph

Pharmalot

Where have all the opioids gone? Most prescribed pills go unused after surgery

By Ed Silverman

First Opinion

4 steps to reversing the epidemic of opioid use disorders

By Brian D. Sites and Matthew A. Davis

Health

Prescription opioid use is widespread. Here’s who is most vulnerable to misuse

By Megan Thielking

Politics

White House panel urges Trump to declare state of emergency over opioid crisis

Pharmalot

Senator expands opioid probe to more drug makers and wholesalers

By Ed Silverman

Pharmalot

McKesson shareholders reject executive pay amid pressure on opioid distribution

By Ed Silverman

Pharmalot

Pharmalittle: Shire does a 9 percent price hike; FDA wants more abuse data for an opioid

By Ed Silverman

Pharmalot

Pharmalittle: Ontario ministers want to prosecute Purdue; cancer docs promote ‘value’ for cancer meds

By Ed Silverman

In the Know

Meet the chemist who’s working to come up with an ‘addiction vaccine’

Pharmalot

Anthem sues Insys over a ‘creative’ scheme to win reimbursement for its painkiller

By Ed Silverman

Pharmalot

Former Insys reps plead guilty to bribing docs for opioid prescribing; they wanted ‘money’ and ‘dark chocolate’

By Ed Silverman

Pharmalot

Mallinckrodt pays $35 million fine for failing to report suspicious oxycodone orders

By Ed Silverman

Pharmalot

Teamsters criticize McKesson for ‘excessive’ CEO pay and its role in the opioid crisis

By Ed Silverman

Health

More opioids were prescribed here per person than anywhere else in the U.S.

By Andrew Joseph

Health

Ohio sheriff won’t let deputies carry Narcan, citing safety

By Associated Press

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