Politics Apr 29 California is joining with a New Jersey company to buy a generic opioid overdose reversal drug By Adam Beam, Associated Press
Health Mar 29 Narcan just got over-the-counter approval. Here’s what you need to know The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter. By Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press
Health Dec 28 What’s behind the historic spike in drug overdose deaths under COVID-19 Drug overdoses were linked to more than 81,000 people’s deaths, jumping 18 percent between June 2019 and May 2020, according to recently released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By Laura Santhanam
Health May 01 Desperate to prevent opioid overdoses, states urge greater prescription of naloxone In an effort to reduce opioid overdoses, a handful of states are requiring doctors to give, or at least offer, a prescription for naloxone to patients taking high doses of opioid painkillers. Naloxone saves lives by reversing the effects of… By Christine Vestal, Stateline
Health Apr 05 Surgeon general urges Americans to carry opioid overdose antidote Speaking at the National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit in Atlanta on Thursday morning, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams issued his office's first national public health advisory in 13 years. By R.J. Rico, Associated Press
Mar 14 Purdue Pharma promoted Oxycontin for years. Now, it is combating the opioid crisis By Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News After years of aggressively promoting OxyContin as a safe and effective way to combat pain, the company is — equally aggressively — recasting itself as a fundamental player in the response to a crisis that many experts say it helped… Continue reading
Oct 11 Twitter chat: The realities of opioid addiction and recovery By Lora Strum What does addiction really look like, and what does it mean to recover? Join us for a #NewsHourChats and hear from our guests. Continue reading
Aug 10 These states declared an emergency over the opioid crisis. Here’s what happened By Erin Mershon, Andrew Joseph, STAT Most national emergency declarations, which grant the government temporary new powers with little in the way of oversight, have come in response to natural disasters or the spread of infectious diseases like the H1N1 virus. They allow the federal government… Continue reading
Mar 29 Here’s what Trump’s new executive order means for opioid addiction By Laura Santhanam New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will lead a commission designed to combat opioid addiction, part of Trump's plan to fight the crisis. Continue reading