... services that meet local needs. Separately, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will get $900 million under a three-year program to help state and local governments better track overdose data. Forty-seven states and the District of Columbia are among jurisdictions sharing $301 million in the first year.
... the Cleveland negotiations. The settlement talks involve more than 2,000 lawsuits against the company and other players in the painkiller industry over the opioid overdose epidemic that has killed more than 400,000 people in the U.S. since 2000 and torn apart communities. The first federal trial over ...
... Boston Medical Center’s Grayken Center for Addiction. He has researched how the pharmaceutical industry’s marketing practices may have laid the groundwork for rising overdose deaths. Companies marketed prescription opioids to doctors in regions where opioid use had become problematic, he said, perpetuating a cycle of use. “Our nation ...
... Those actions compromised the health and safety of thousands of Oklahomans. Specifically, defendants caused an opioid crisis that is evidenced by increased rates of addiction, overdose deaths, and neonatal abstinence syndrome in Oklahoma. The opioid crisis has ravaged the state of Oklahoma. It must be abated immediately. John Yang: Johnson ...
... campaign that overstated how effective the drugs were for treating chronic pain and understated the risk of addiction. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter says opioid overdoses killed 4,653 people in the state from 2007 to 2017. Hunter has called Johnson & Johnson a "kingpin" company that was motivated by greed ...
... stop this wave of opioids is sort of where they need to be. Right now, the current solution to that is using sort of these overdose reversing drugs like Narcan and that is sort of stemming the problem a little bit in places like Ohio. But it's just sort ...
... court's findings. One of the choirboys, identified by the sentencing judge as J.J., was the key prosecution witness. His friend, identified as M.R., died of a heroin overdose in 2014 at the age of 31 without ever complaining he had been abused. Neither victim can be named.
... Arthur further alleged that Fleming pushed Groucho to perform, whether he was able or not, for her own financial gain. Groucho’s nurses claimed Erin overdosed the comedian on tranquilizers and called him nasty names like “pig” and “crazy old man.” Accoridng to court testimony, There were other occasions when ...
... following the lead of several states that have already restricted opioid prescriptions for their employees. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced that overdose deaths appear to have declined last year for the first time in nearly three decades. Data show nearly 68,000 reported deaths in 2018 ...
... to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As alarming as that number may appear, a dozen other states had even higher prescription rates. Further, overdose death rates from these powerful drugs have increased 500 percent during the past 20 years, a trend that appears to have worsened as use ...
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