... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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.”
... 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 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.
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 ...
... States,” Schumer said. Preliminary data released by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in November showed that about 49,060 people died from opioid-related overdose deaths in 2017, a rise from the reported 42,249 opioid overdose deaths in 2016. Fentanyl and other related opioids, which tend to be ...
And he realized that they were all parents of other people who had also died from opiate overdoses. And he thought, you know, we already know this. We don't need to learn in lesson. We already learned it the hard way. Where is everyone else? And that was sort ...
... an attractive market," an internal memo read, according to the suit. The company later explored selling naloxone — known by its brand name Narcan — which reverses overdoses, the state's lawyers contend. A presentation made to the board in 2016 said that Narcan could bring in $24 million in sales to ...
... fentanyl overdoses are rising. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says in a recent report that fentanyl is now the drug most often involved in fatal overdoses across the country, accounting for more than 18,000, or almost 29 percent, of the 63,000 overdose fatalities in 2016.
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