• Opioid crisis renews focus on expanding access to methadone treatment

    Opioid crisis renews focus on expanding access to methadone treatment

    Dec 17, 2024 11:35 PM EDT

    But that legislation stalled and made concerns among some in the medical community that loosening methadone safeguards could backfire. Dr. Kenneth Stoller, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: People who are just starting on methadone are actually at a higher risk of overdose for the first couple of weeks than ...

  • WATCH: DOJ holds briefing on $650M settlement with McKinsey for its role in opioid epidemic

    WATCH: DOJ holds briefing on $650M settlement with McKinsey for its role in opioid epidemic

    Dec 13, 2024 05:33 PM EDT

    ... regret for our firm.” It's the latest effort by federal prosecutors to hold accountable companies officials say helped fuel the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis, with opioids linked to more than 80,000 annual deaths in some recent years. For the past decade, most of them have been ...

  • U.S. Biathlon leaders ignored reports of sexual harassment and abuse for decades, female athletes say

    U.S. Biathlon leaders ignored reports of sexual harassment and abuse for decades, female athletes say

    Dec 11, 2024 06:23 PM EDT

    ... stop coaching Boutot, the treatment summary said. “He did not do this until after the suicide attempt,” Pauli-Ritz wrote, referring to Boutot's 2010 overdose on antidepressants at training camp. The next day, Colliander resigned. He took a coaching job in Colorado and was hired in December 2016 by ...

  • People hit hardest by opioid crisis often don't get a say in how settlement money is spent

    People hit hardest by opioid crisis often don't get a say in how settlement money is spent

    Dec 09, 2024 11:01 PM EDT

    ... made those decisions thinks that’s the best use of the funding,” said Alicia House, executive director of the Steve Rummler Hope Network, which provides overdose prevention and education across Minnesota. Renville County Sheriff Scott Hable said in an interview that keeping drugs out of the jail — without subjecting people ...

  • Meet the health care critics Trump picked to lead top U.S. health agencies under RFK Jr.

    Meet the health care critics Trump picked to lead top U.S. health agencies under RFK Jr.

    Nov 27, 2024 10:03 PM EDT

    Weldon's congressional voting record suggests he may go along with Republican efforts to downsize the CDC, including to eliminate the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, which works on topics like drownings, drug overdoses and shooting deaths. Food and Drug Administration Kennedy has been extremely critical of the ...

  • Trump names a Fox News personality, a COVID mandate critic and an anti-vaccine doctor to key public health roles

    Trump names a Fox News personality, a COVID mandate critic and an anti-vaccine doctor to key public health roles

    Nov 24, 2024 12:47 AM EDT

    ... with Republican efforts to downsize the CDC, including to eliminate the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, which works on topics like drownings, drug overdoses and shooting deaths. Weldon also voted to ban federal funding for needle-exchange programs as an approach to reduce overdoses, and the National Rifle ...

  • News Wrap: Blinken pledges to rush aid to Ukraine in Biden administration's final months

    News Wrap: Blinken pledges to rush aid to Ukraine in Biden administration's final months

    Nov 13, 2024 11:40 PM EDT

    Federal authorities have been looking into recent security breaches involving telecoms companies, random individuals and public figures, including president-elect Donald Trump. Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. appear to be showing a sustained decline. Provisional data from the CDC today shows there were 97,000 overdose deaths in ...

  • October 20, 2024 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    October 20, 2024 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    Oct 20, 2024 09:57 PM EDT

    Sunday on PBS News Weekend, as recovery from Helene and Milton continues, why the economic toll of these massive hurricanes can reach far beyond the storm’s path for months to come. Then, how laws targeting transgender people affect the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth. Plus, why overdose deaths involving ...

  • News Wrap: 100 people dead or missing in latest Israeli strikes on northern Gaza

    News Wrap: 100 people dead or missing in latest Israeli strikes on northern Gaza

    Oct 20, 2024 09:45 PM EDT

    ... sent half of them into the water. It was on Sapelo Island, where a celebration of a community of slave descendants was being held.Still to come on PBS News Weekend, the effect anti-transgender legislation is having on LGBTQ youth and the complex connection between antidepressants and overdose deaths.

  • Ethel Kennedy, social activist and Kennedy matriarch, dies at 96

    Ethel Kennedy, social activist and Kennedy matriarch, dies at 96

    Oct 10, 2024 04:30 PM EDT

    In 2019, she was grieving again after granddaughter Saoirse Kennedy Hill died of an apparent drug overdose. “One wonders how much this family must be expected to absorb,” family friend Philip Johnson, founder of the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation, told the Boston Herald after Michael Kennedy’s death. Ethel Kennedy ...