• A festering opioid crisis, worn-out families and 'so much pain to process'

    A festering opioid crisis, worn-out families and 'so much pain to process'

    Aug 14, 2018 10:30 PM EST

    ... an admission that they had fraudulently marketed the drug for years. Beth Macy: The important thing to the families who had lost children to OxyContin overdose was they got to be here. They got to look them in the eye. And Federal Judge James Jones, who still presides over this ...

  • Poison control calls spike for unapproved drug that produces opioid-like highs

    Poison control calls spike for unapproved drug that produces opioid-like highs

    Aug 04, 2018 04:09 PM EST

    ... public health threat. In April, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder passed a measure to reclassify tianeptine as a Schedule II controlled substance after a series of overdoses linked to the drug in 2017. “In light of the ongoing U.S. opioid epidemic, any emerging trends in drugs with opioid-like effects ...

  • 5 important stories that have nothing to do with Russia

    5 important stories that have nothing to do with Russia

    Jul 17, 2018 11:31 PM EST

    ... Earlier this year, two Nigerian students were attacked after a rumor suggested “Africans had sold drugs to an Indian student who later died of an overdose,” and the next month, a mob of 200 people attacked and killed a Muslim man who they believed was transporting cows -- sacred in the ...

  • Nevada judge halts execution after objections from drug company

    Nevada judge halts execution after objections from drug company

    Jul 11, 2018 08:27 PM EST

    A third company, Pfizer, last year demanded Nevada return the third drug intended for use in the execution, the powerful opioid fentanyl. But the state refused. Fentanyl, which has been blamed for deadly overdoses across the country, has not been used before in an execution. Jordan T. Smith, an assistant ...

  • Jackson family patriarch dies at 89

    Jackson family patriarch dies at 89

    Jun 27, 2018 05:17 PM EST

    ve each other, and we have children. That's why we're together." When Dr. Conrad Murray went on trial in 2010, charged in Michael's overdose death from propofol, Joseph and Katherine attended court with several of Michael's siblings. Murray's conviction of involuntary manslaughter provided some measure ...

  • Mitt Romney wins GOP primary in Utah Senate race

    Mitt Romney wins GOP primary in Utah Senate race

    Jun 27, 2018 03:03 AM EST

    ... a lawsuit that overturned Utah's ban on gay marriage. He's facing physician Jennifer Plumb, a doctor who vows to work to reduce opioid overdoses, in the primary to replace outspoken Democratic state Sen. Jim Dabakis. GOP voters were also deciding the next sheriff of Utah County. Pleasant Grove ...

  • White House launches anti-opioid ad campaign aimed at youth

    White House launches anti-opioid ad campaign aimed at youth

    Jun 07, 2018 03:01 PM EST

    ... health emergency last October and the federal government is expected to spend a record $4.6 billion this year to fight the opioid crisis. Drug overdose deaths involving opioids rose to about 46,000 for the 12-month period that ended in October 2017, up about 15 percent from October ...

  • Judge sides with Philadelphia in sanctuary city fight

    Judge sides with Philadelphia in sanctuary city fight

    Jun 06, 2018 04:55 PM EST

    ... Philadelphia's attorneys had argued the move is unconstitutional and that it harms residents by withholding money earmarked to help buy kits to counteract opioid overdoses. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has said that cities that don't help enforce immigration law are endangering public safety, especially when it comes to ...

  • Mentoring program connects children of incarcerated parents with support

    Mentoring program connects children of incarcerated parents with support

    May 13, 2018 08:06 PM EST

    ... in terms of the substance abuse, drug trafficking, drug changing, you know, to new designer drugs. MEGAN THOMPSON: Last year, the Kokomo area had 44 overdose deaths - almost double the number during the previous year. The number of people put in jail has increased 18% over the last two years ...

  • Drug distributors missed suspicious opioid sales to West Virginia, lawmakers say

    Drug distributors missed suspicious opioid sales to West Virginia, lawmakers say

    May 08, 2018 06:11 PM EST

    ... The denials drew an angry response from Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., whose state has had the nation's highest death rate from drug overdoses. "The fury inside me right now is bubbling over," he told the executives. He added later, "I think you very much were responsible." George ...