Jun 26 J&J agrees to pay $230M to settle New York opioid claim By Associated Press The deal announced on Saturday requires Johnson & Johnson to make a series of payments over nine years that will cover the total. The drugmaker also agreed to end the manufacturing and distribution of opioids across New York and the… Continue reading
Apr 27 U.S. lifts barriers to prescribing opioid addiction treatment By Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press New guidelines announced Tuesday mean doctors will no longer need extra hours of training to prescribe buprenorphine, a gold standard medicine that helps with cravings. Continue reading
Feb 04 McKinsey & Company agrees to pay nearly $600 million over opioid crisis By Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press In a deal announced Thursday with attorneys general for most states, the company agreed to make public documents showing communications with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and three other companies that have been in the opioid business. Continue reading
Dec 22 Before COVID-19, U.S. life expectancy was making a slight rebound By Laura Santhanam New federal data shows life expectancy before the pandemic was on the rise, but tens of thousands of deaths caused by opioids… Continue reading
Oct 22 Watch 6:15 Conn. attorney general calls Purdue Pharma settlement ‘a mirage’ A historic settlement was announced Wednesday among the Department of Justice, Purdue Pharma and members of the Sackler family over the drug giant’s role in the national opioid crisis. The CDC estimates roughly 450,000 people died from opioid overdose between… Continue watching
Oct 21 Worsening opioid crisis overshadowed in presidential race By Farnoush Amiri, Report for America, Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press The coronavirus outbreak and the Trump administration's response to the pandemic have been a dominating theme in this year's presidential race. That has overshadowed debate over how to handle the nation's drug overdose crisis, which has contributed to the deaths… Continue reading
Mar 10 In Ohio, this effort aims to heal the youngest victims of the opioid crisis By Emily Tate, EdSurge A specialized program helps children process the trauma they have endured and reduce the symptoms that come with it. Continue reading
Feb 11 What New Hampshire voters want to hear about opioids from 2020 Democrats By Amanda Latimore, The Conversation America’s opioid crisis has hit New Hampshire hard, creating an epidemic of overdoses and addiction-related health issues in the early primary state. Continue reading
Jan 24 Watch 10:31 Drug company executives face prison time for role in opioid epidemic By William Brangham Thursday, several executives at Insys Therapeutics were sentenced to prison for a bribery scheme that paid doctors to prescribe the company’s lucrative and addictive painkiller. These sentences are a landmark moment in the push to hold drug makers accountable for… Continue watching
Jan 23 Former Insys Therapeutics Chairman sentenced for role in opioid scheme By Collin Binkley, Associated Press The founder of an Arizona pharmaceutical company has been sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison for his role in a bribery and kickback scheme that prosecutors said helped fuel the opioid crisis. John Kapoor, the 76-year-old former chairman of… Continue reading