addiction

Politics By Nicholas Florko

The American Medical Association is fighting an otherwise popular bill to require training doctors about opioid use disorder

Health By Mike Stobbe — Associated Press

U.S. overdose deaths hit record 107,000 in 2021, CDC says

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: How should doctors treat chronic pain in the wake of the opioid crisis?

First Opinion By Haider J. Warraich

Medicine needs to do right by patients prescribed opioids

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

CVS, Teva, Allergan and Endo reach $878 million deal with Florida over the opioid crisis

First Opinion By John C. Messinger, Anand Chukka and J. Wesley Boyd

The case for decriminalizing the street sale of buprenorphine

First Opinion By Emma Biegacki

Emergency response systems must not overlook people with substance use disorders

Pharma By Geoff Mulvihill and Jennifer Peltz — Associated Press

‘Scum of the earth’: Opioid crisis victims face Purdue Pharma owners

Health By Andrew Marquardt — Medill News Service

Doctors, companies push to keep looser, pandemic-era rules for prescribing opioid addiction treatment via telemedicine

First Opinion By Nicholaus Christian

‘I trust my drug dealer more than I trust this vaccine’

First Opinion By Jim Crotty

Preventing overdose deaths starts with reducing demand for drugs in the U.S.

First Opinion By Ryan Hampton and William Stauffer

Recovery community organizations need more than bake sales to help people survive addiction

First Opinion By Donald Norcross

Opioid overdoses are killing Americans. Improving access to methadone can save lives

First Opinion By Paul J. Joudrey and Adam J. Gordon

Inflexible methadone regulations impede America’s efforts to reduce overdose deaths

Pharma By Geoff Mulvihill — Associated Press

States: Sackler family members abusing bankruptcy process

Health By Andrew Joseph

Her husband died by suicide. She sued his pain doctors — a rare challenge over an opioid dose reduction

First Opinion By Matthew Stefanko, Brea Perry and Anne Krendl

A new index measures the extent and depth of addiction stigma

First Opinion By William F. Haning, III

Overdose prevention sites can save lives and promote recovery. We must be willing to try them

Health By John Seewer and Geoff Mulvihill — Associated Press

Purdue bankruptcy settlement leaves families angry, conflicted

First Opinion By Sika Yeboah-Sampong and Gail D'Onofrio

Medically, legally, and morally, emergency departments cannot ignore addiction care

First Opinion By William Cooke

Harm-reduction programs acknowledge the difference between ‘do no harm’ and ‘protect from harm’

First Opinion By Dick Durbin

With the tobacco settlement, the U.S. missed its moment to fortify public health. We can’t make that mistake with the opioid settlement

First Opinion By Nora D. Volkow

Punishing drug use heightens the stigma of addiction

Health By Andrew Joseph

States could get billions from opioid lawsuits. They have to decide how to spend it

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A journalist on what the Vietnam War taught us about addiction