KFF Health News — Over the past two years, rural Greene County in northeastern Tennessee has collected more than $2.7 million from regional and national settlements with opioid manufacturers and…
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Sacklers Gave Millions to Institution That Advises on Opioid Policy
For the past decade, the White House and Congress have relied on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, a renowned advisory group, to help shape the federal response…
FDA approves first over-the-counter version of opioid overdose antidote Narcan
CNN — With drug overdose deaths continuing to hover near record levels, the US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved for the first time an over-the-counter version of the…
How an Opioid Settlement Hinders Patients’ Access to ADHD Medication and Other Drugs
Nearly a year after a sweeping opioid settlement imposed new requirements on the companies that provide medications to pharmacies, patients across the United States are having difficulty obtaining drugs to…
More Doctors Can Now Prescribe Buprenorphine to Opioid Users. Will It Help?
BALTIMORE — Buprenorphine, a medication to treat opioid addiction, has quietly stabilized Randall Lambert’s drug use over the past 15 years, even as chaos surrounded him. He cycled in and…
Opioid Distributors Cleared of Liability to Georgia Families Ravaged by Addiction
The Georgia law says that relatives of drug users can sue for harms they endured from the “individual drug abusers.” Even so, defense lawyers for the distributors often turned the case…
Narcan: FDA considers making Narcan opioid overdose antidote available without prescription
CNN — Advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration will meet Wednesday to discuss whether a nasal spray version of the opioid overdose antidote Narcan should be made available…
Tracking the opioid crisis: Inside the DEA’s secret lab
Watch CNN Films’ “American Pain” at 9 p.m. ET Sunday, February 5. CNN — Sitting among the warehouses of Dulles, Virginia, is one of the US Drug Enforcement Administration’s forensic…
Justice Dept. Sues AmerisourceBergen Over Role in Opioid Crisis
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Thursday against AmerisourceBergen, one of the country’s largest pharmaceutical distributors, accusing the company of knowingly distributing opioids that were later resold illegally. The…
Cannabis users had worse bypass outcomes, increased amputation and opioid use, study shows — ScienceDaily
The use of cannabis may have a negative impact on outcomes for a common bypass surgery, a study suggests. Researchers at Michigan Medicine analyzed more than 11,000 cases from the…