Opioid
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News
States and Creditors for Purdue Pharma Threaten Sacklers With Gush of Lawsuits
Legal maneuverings followed a Supreme Court ruling last month that denied the Sackler family immunity from liability over its role in the opioid crisis.
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McKinsey Is Under Criminal Investigation for Its Opioid Work
Federal prosecutors are examining the consulting company’s role in helping “turbocharge” the sale of painkillers like OxyContin.
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Newyork
Say Hello to Your Addiction Risk Score — Courtesy of the Tech Industry
Before Dr. Bobby Mukkamala — an ear, nose, and throat specialist in Michigan — prescribed post-surgical opioids recently, he checked state records of his patient’s existing controlled substance prescriptions, as legally required. A score generated by ...
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Newyork
Regulating Opioid Prescriptions
Pain management is an inexact science; there is plenty of blame to go around for the abuse of such drugs.
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Newyork
The D.E.A. Needs to Stay Out of Medicine
Even when her pancreatic cancer began to invade her spine in the summer of 2021, my mother-in-law maintained an image of grace, never letting her own pain stop her from prioritizing the needs of others. Her appointment for a nerve block was a month ...
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Newyork
We’re Thinking About Pain All Wrong
For many years I’ve written about people suffering intractable pain, and how their agony and increased risk of suicide and death has been ignored in the rush to end the overdose crisis. I’ve told the story of a woman who hoped for a cancer diagnosis ...
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‘A Monster’: Super Meth and Other Drugs Push Crisis Beyond Opioids
Dr. Nic Helmstetter crab-walked down a steep, rain-slicked trail into a grove of maple and cottonwood trees to his destination: a dozen tents in a clearing by the Kalamazoo River, surrounded by the detritus of lives perpetually on the move. Discarded ...
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US
Some Key Facts About Fentanyl
It’s lowering American life expectancy and influencing the nation’s politics.
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News
An Appeals Court Gave the Sacklers Legal Immunity. Here’s What the Ruling Means.
In return for the shield, the billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma are committed to paying up to $6 billion to help compensate communities and individuals for the ravages of the opioid epidemic.
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Tranq Dope: Animal Sedative Mixed With Fentanyl Brings Fresh Horror to U.S. Drug Zones
PHILADELPHIA — Over a matter of weeks, Tracey McCann watched in horror as the bruises she was accustomed to getting from injecting fentanyl began hardening into an armor of crusty, blackened tissue. Something must have gotten into the supply ...
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