The Arkansas State Medical Board has approved draft regulations aimed at reducing opioid abuse. The board unanimously voted in favor...
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Just over 60 percent of individuals who died from an opioid overdose had been diagnosed with a chronic pain condition,...
The city of Indianapolis sued several manufacturers and distributors of prescription painkillers in federal court on Nov. 14, alleging that...
New data from the Louisiana Department of Health and the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy show there are fewer opioids being...
Nearly two dozen Wisconsin counties say in a federal lawsuit that “nefarious and deceptive” marketing campaigns from pharmaceutical companies are...
Louisiana’s attorney general is trying to take control of a lawsuit filed by Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration accusing pharmaceutical...
U.S. shareholder activists are addressing a soaring death toll from opioid drug abuse, asking companies that make and distribute the...
County officials in Ohio’s Cuyahoga County are suing several large prescription drug companies saying they intentionally misled the public about...

U.S. President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency on Thursday, stopping short of a national emergency...

At Philip Tulkoff’s food-processing plant in Baltimore, machines grind tough horseradish roots into puree. “If you put your arm in...