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Health By Mike Stobbe — Associated Press

CDC encourages more Americans to consider N95 masks

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Martin Shkreli is ordered to pay $64 million and is banned from the pharma industry for life

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Could drug checking have prevented Prince’s overdose death?

Exclusive By David Armstrong

A potent painkiller, and the drug maker’s marketing, are faulted in a woman’s death

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Health By Allison Bond

Why fentanyl is deadlier than heroin, in a single photo

Public shame

First Opinion By Seth Mnookin

Public shaming of overdosed adults by police department’s Facebook post is ‘morally repugnant’

Fentanyl

Politics By Dylan Scott

US and China agree to work to block the potent drug fentanyl from coming into America

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Health By David Armstrong

Illegal street drugs, not prescriptions, now powering opioid abuse, study finds

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Special Report By Andrew Joseph

26 overdoses in just hours: Inside a community on the front lines of the opioid epidemic

Prince

Health By Associated Press

Official: Fentanyl pills found at Prince’s estate were falsely labeled

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Health By David Armstrong

Fentanyl blamed for rise in 2016 Massachusetts overdose deaths

Special Report By David Armstrong

Dope Sick: A harrowing story of best friends, addiction — and a stealth killer

Opioid Death Risks

Health By Associated Press

Opioids linked with deaths other than overdoses, study says

Prince

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Former pharma sales reps charged with bribing docs to prescribe opioids

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Health By STAT

3 things you need to know about fentanyl, the opioid tied to Prince’s death

Fentanyl

Politics By David Armstrong

Kerry urged to pressure China to do more to curb sale of deadly fentanyl to US

Fentanyl Painkillers Deaths California

Health By Associated Press

Painkiller laced with fentanyl kills 14 in California

Wuhan, Hubei province fentanyl

Health By David Armstrong

Chinese labs modify deadly fentanyl to circumvent ban on sales to US

Fentanyl Lookalike Pills

Health By David Armstrong

US refuses to release records on Chinese companies linked to deadly fentanyl trade

Fentanyl

Health By David Armstrong

‘Truly terrifying’: Chinese suppliers flood US and Canada with deadly fentanyl