Two major prescription drug distributors have agreed to settle a West Virginia lawsuit alleging they fueled West Virginia’s opioid epidemic...
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Drug wholesalers shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia in just six years, a period when 1,728...
The health insurer Cigna has agreed to end a policy that required physicians to fill out extra paperwork before they...
Experts are warning about the dangers of opioid and heroin abuse in South Carolina, pointing out that almost as many...
There have been fewer drivers killed in car crashes who tested positive for opioids in states with medical marijuana laws...
As the number of overdose deaths from prescription painkillers has soared in recent years, pharmaceutical companies that manufacture opioid painkillers,...
Alabama has the highest level of prescription opioid use in the country, and companies that make the painkillers and their...
As New Hampshire considers mandatory drug prevention education in all grades, the state’s opioid crisis has heightened the sense of...
The Reno, Nev. doctor at the center of a federal investigation into an illegal prescription drug ring is being accused...
Nearly one out of every three (32 percent) opioid prescriptions, which are subsidized by America’s employers, is being abused, according...