• Andrew Yang on how the U.S. can adapt to its new economic realities

    Andrew Yang on how the U.S. can adapt to its new economic realities

    Apr 15, 2019 10:25 PM EDT

    ... should be referring you straight to treatment, and not a jail cell. And in other countries, that has reduced both the usage rate and the overdose rate over time. Lisa Desjardins: I want to turn to foreign policy. We're in a time of very significant global tension. And there ...

  • Lethal plans: When seniors turn to suicide in long-term care

    Lethal plans: When seniors turn to suicide in long-term care

    Apr 10, 2019 10:26 PM EDT

    ... own lives. Many used guns, sometimes in places where firearms weren’t allowed or should have been securely stored. Others hanged themselves, jumped from windows, overdosed on pills or suffocated themselves with plastic bags. (The analysis did not examine medical aid-in-dying, a rare and restricted method by which ...

  • What New York state’s lawsuit against Purdue Pharma says about U.S. opioid battle

    What New York state’s lawsuit against Purdue Pharma says about U.S. opioid battle

    Mar 28, 2019 10:40 PM EDT

    ... Pharma, which manufacturers OxyContin, an opioid sold and abused throughout the crisis. More than 400,000 people have died in the past two decades from overdoses involving legal and illegal opioids, according to the federal government. At least three dozen states and more than 1,500 cities and counties are ...

  • What Purdue Pharma's settlement with Oklahoma means for the opioid crisis

    What Purdue Pharma's settlement with Oklahoma means for the opioid crisis

    Mar 26, 2019 11:50 PM EDT

    ... to tobacco industry settlements from the 1990s, saying these agreements “are not structured to meaningfully improve access to treatment or take other measures to reduce overdose deaths.” “The amount and structure of the settlement enables the state to do a victory lap, while allowing the pharmaceutical giant to walk away ...

  • Oklahoma settles with maker of OxyContin over opioid crisis

    Oklahoma settles with maker of OxyContin over opioid crisis

    Mar 26, 2019 03:11 PM EDT

    ... Pharma, did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Oklahoma sued opioid manufacturers in 2017, accusing them of fraudulent marketing that led to thousands of overdoses and deaths. State officials have said that since 2009, more Oklahomans have died from opioids than in vehicle crashes.This month, Purdue Pharma officials ...

  • What novelist Don Winslow thinks of America's war on drugs

    What novelist Don Winslow thinks of America's war on drugs

    Mar 23, 2019 09:25 PM EDT

    Don Winslow: And all you have to do is look at the numbers. Since he was captured and recaptured or re-recaptured, the importation of drugs into America has not fallen, it's risen. The number of overdose deaths have not fallen, it's risen. Jeff Greenfield: And as for ...

  • Will fewer opioid prescriptions help kick the crisis?

    Will fewer opioid prescriptions help kick the crisis?

    Mar 15, 2019 09:49 PM EDT

    ... health outcomes without intervention or treatment, possibly perpetuating more overdoses and deaths. “We're cautiously optimistic that providers are changing their behavior, but we really do have quite a ways to go,” Maestas said. “Until we see overdose mortality come down, we can't say we've figured this out.”

  • Australian cardinal Pell sentenced to six years for child sex abuse

    Australian cardinal Pell sentenced to six years for child sex abuse

    Mar 13, 2019 12:10 PM EDT

    ... is no rest for me. Everything is overshadowed by the forthcoming appeal." The father of one of Pell's victims who died of a heroin overdose in 2014 at the age of 31 paid tribute to his son's childhood friend for speaking out. "I commend the young fellow who ...

  • Drug company CEOs admit prescription prices are too high. But will they change?

    Drug company CEOs admit prescription prices are too high. But will they change?

    Feb 27, 2019 02:05 PM EDT

    ... drug prices. In his State of the Department address on Feb. 22, he said lowering prescription drug prices was one of his top four policy priorities for 2019, along with combating opioid overdoses and deaths, improving the individual insurance market and injecting value-based practices into the health care system.

  • Vatican official convicted of child sex abuse in Australian court

    Vatican official convicted of child sex abuse in Australian court

    Feb 26, 2019 01:38 AM EDT

    The other victim died of a heroin overdose in 2014 without ever complaining of the abuse, and even denying to his suspicious mother that he had been molested while he was part of the choir. Neither boy can be identified. More than a month later, the complainant testified that Pell ...