Hospitals in Mississippi and Alabama are suing more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies, claiming the companies deceptively marketed and sold...
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Officials in two Kentucky counties have voted to hire attorneys to file lawsuits against wholesale drug distributors to help pay...
Legislation to reduce opioid abuse and overdoses has passed the North Carolina House with unanimous bipartisan support. The House approved...
House Republicans filed 10 proposals Wednesday aimed at curbing South Carolina’s rampant prescription painkiller problem and promised more legislation would...

At first, the woman tried to hide her painkiller problem. She told the doctor that she still had pain from...
Mark Rosenberg doesn’t need to go to his job as chairman of emergency medicine at New Jersey’s busiest emergency room...
The Maine Legislature is poised to pass a bill sponsored by Gov. Paul LePage that would put the state on...
The American Insurance Association (AIA) lauded Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker for signing comprehensive opioid abuse legislation (H 4046) Monday. Opioids...