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First Opinion Linda Richter and Diana Fishbein

Allocate opioid settlement dollars to real addiction-ending solutions

Health Lev Facher

When it comes to addiction, Americans’ word choices are part of the problem

Health Andrew Joseph

‘This program’s really saved us’: As Canada offers safer opioids to curb overdoses, will U.S. follow?

Health Lev Facher

Fentanyl test strips could help save lives. In many states, they’re still illegal

Health Andrew Joseph

With overdoses at record highs, a veterinary tranquilizer spreading through the U.S. drug supply poses new threats

First Opinion Mason Marks

FDA’s kratom ban would harm the public and damage the agency’s credibility

First Opinion David Eddie and John Kelly

People recover from addiction. They also go on to do good things

Exclusive Shraddha Chakradhar and Casey Ross

The history of OxyContin, told through unsealed Purdue documents

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Pharmalot Ed Silverman

Walmart agrees to pay $3.1 billion in latest settlement stemming from the opioid crisis

Health Andrew Joseph

New CDC opioid guidelines emphasize flexibility in treating pain

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Health Geoff Mulvihill — Associated Press

CVS, Walgreens announce opioid settlements totaling $10B

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Will opioid settlement money actually go to opioid prevention? Here’s hoping

Health Andrew Joseph

Medicare provides insufficient access to opioid addiction treatment, report finds

Health Lev Facher

Biden administration has simple way to cut overdose deaths, experts say: expand methadone access

Health Associated Press

Judge rules CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart owe $650M in opioids suit

First Opinion Jim Crotty

The next generation of illicit drugs? Think ‘synthetic’

Health Tech Akila Muthukumar

Buprenorphine treatment for veterans with opioid use disorder increased as care shifted to telehealth during Covid, study finds

Pharma Geoff Mulvihill — Associated Press

Drugmaker Teva latest to settle opioid lawsuits nationally

First Opinion Reuben Guttman and Liza Vertinsky

Demanding more impact from impact litigation: lessons to be learned from multi-state opioid settlements

Special Report Andrew Joseph

Two deadly days in St. Louis: An overdose cluster kills 8 Black people — and shows the new shape of the addiction crisis

Health Andrew Joseph

As overdose deaths exploded during the pandemic, racial disparities widened, CDC report shows

Health Carla K. Johnson — Associated Press

Relaxed methadone rules appear safe, researchers find

First Opinion Ed Bisch

My son died of an Oxy overdose. Drug company execs who are responsible should be sent to jail

Health Andrew Joseph

Supreme Court rules that doctors need to knowingly misprescribe opioids for it to be a crime

Politics Nicholas Florko

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

Health Mike Stobbe — Associated Press

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

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

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

First Opinion Shravani Durbhakula and Joshua M. Sharfstein

HHS needs to step up so CDC’s new guidelines won’t be ‘a bridge to nowhere’ for most Americans living with chronic pain

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

Pharmalittle: Amgen faces $7B IRS back-tax bill and fine; McKinsey exec apologizes for opioid work during hearing

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

Endo wins a reprieve in an opioid lawsuit in Tennessee as appeals court overturns sanctions

First Opinion Haider J. Warraich

Medicine needs to do right by patients prescribed opioids

Health Andrew Joseph

Driven by fentanyl, rates of fatal teen overdoses doubled in 2020

First Opinion Antje M. Barreveld

As a pain specialist, I may have caused more harm by underprescribing opioids