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  • Advertising agency for OxyContin agrees to pay $350 million rather than face lawsuits

    Advertising agency for OxyContin agrees to pay $350 million rather than face lawsuits

    Feb 01, 2024 08:03 PM EDT

    ... conglomerate Publicis Groupe, agreed to pay the entire settlement in the next two months, with most of the money to be used to fight the overdose epidemic. It is the first advertising company to reach a major settlement over the toll of opioids in the U.S. It faced a ...

  • Hours of more video show more of officers in fatal police beating of Tyre Nichols

    Hours of more video show more of officers in fatal police beating of Tyre Nichols

    Jan 31, 2024 07:12 PM EDT

    ... officers and others tending to Nichols appeared fixated with the idea that he was high on drugs. Medics administered Naloxone to reverse a potential opioid overdose as Nichols slouched, unresponsive, after officers propped him up against a car. One emergency medical technician even claimed, “He’s not injured. He’s ...

  • U.S. and China commit to tackling fentanyl trafficking in a sign of cooperation amid differences

    U.S. and China commit to tackling fentanyl trafficking in a sign of cooperation amid differences

    Jan 30, 2024 10:19 PM EDT

    ... opioids are the biggest killers in the deadliest drug crisis the U.S. has ever seen. More than 100,000 deaths were linked to drug overdoses in 2022, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than two-thirds involved fentanyl or similar synthetic drugs. China ...

  • Alcohol-related deaths surge in Colorado with a higher mortality rate than opioids

    Alcohol-related deaths surge in Colorado with a higher mortality rate than opioids

    Jan 24, 2024 11:30 PM EDT

    ... had actually just kind of stumbled across these numbers on alcohol-related deaths and looked at those, and that seemed high, compared it to the overdoses. But as I started talking to people more about the number of conditions that it's involved in, it makes sense. The odds an ...

  • Washington state reaches $149.5 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson over opioid crisis

    Washington state reaches $149.5 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson over opioid crisis

    Jan 24, 2024 08:52 PM EDT

    ... a part in creating the opioid crisis. Under the agreements, most of the money is to be used to combat the nation’s addiction and overdose crisis. Drug overdoses caused more than 1 million deaths in the U.S. from 1999 through 2021, and the majority of those involved opioids ...

  • With Oregon facing rampant public drug use, lawmakers backpedal on pioneering decriminalization law

    With Oregon facing rampant public drug use, lawmakers backpedal on pioneering decriminalization law

    Jan 23, 2024 11:22 PM EDT

    ... a way to treat addiction as a public health matter, not a crime, are now contending with one of the nation's largest spikes in overdose deaths, along with intensifying pressure from Republicans and growing calls from a well-funded campaign group to overhaul it. WATCH: Oregon decriminalization reveals possible ...

  • House GOP is moving swiftly toward Mayorkas' impeachment

    House GOP is moving swiftly toward Mayorkas' impeachment

    Jan 18, 2024 11:58 PM EDT

    One of the witnesses, Josephine Dunn, testified that her daughter, Ashley, died of a fentanyl overdose and said that she traveled from Arizona to appear at the hearing for the opportunity to question Mayorkas. “Mr. Mayorkas is partly responsible for my daughter's death,” she said, calling fentanyl a "weapon ...

  • Congress sends Biden temporary funding bill to avert government shutdown

    Congress sends Biden temporary funding bill to avert government shutdown

    Jan 18, 2024 11:55 PM EDT

    ... deporting people that we have ever seen, more fentanyl seizures than we have ever seen. But Republicans brought a series of witnesses today that were emotional, one mother, for example, whose daughter was killed by an undocumented immigrant, MS-13 member, another mother whose daughter died from a fentanyl overdose.

  • Some New Hampshire residents want better answers from the 2024 candidates on the opioid crisis

    Some New Hampshire residents want better answers from the 2024 candidates on the opioid crisis

    Jan 18, 2024 02:08 AM EDT

    ... coming to speak in New Hampshire should be talking about this issue.” After two big leaps at the beginning of the COVD-19 pandemic, drug overdose deaths nationally rose 2 percent in 2022 to nearly 110,000. In New Hampshire, overdose deaths declined significantly before the pandemic and held steady ...

  • House Republicans poised to impeach DHS secretary over problems at southern border

    House Republicans poised to impeach DHS secretary over problems at southern border

    Jan 10, 2024 11:45 PM EDT

    ... now finding that the migrant surge has affected more communities than it did before, cities dealing with populations of migrants. They are dealing with fentanyl overdoses. I talked to one member of Congress, a senior Republican, who said he's been to five fentanyl funerals blamed on problems at the ...

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