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Aug 23

Proposed rule could make it easier to share addiction treatment records

By Laura Santhanam

On Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed a new rule that would give doctors greater access to records of patients who are being treated for substance use disorder, in an effort to better coordinate care.

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Jul 24

No obligation to the public, opioid distributor tells lawyer

By Megan Hoyer, Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press

An executive at one of the nation's largest drug distribution companies said under questioning recently that the business has no obligation to the public when it comes to the amount of prescription opioid painkillers it ships.

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Jul 18

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The opioid industry fought hard to keep this database hidden. Here’s what it shows

Over the past two decades, hundreds of thousands of Americans have died during a national opioid addiction crisis. As the drug manufacturers face a possible legal reckoning from multiple lawsuits, a newly uncovered database sheds more light on the scope…

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Jul 18

How racial inequity is playing out in the opioid crisis

By Jenae Addison

Non-whites make up 20 percent of deaths involving prescription and non-prescription opioids in the U.S. According to recent government data, the number is growing.

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May 16

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How the Met is handling dilemma of donor accountability

Pressure is increasingly being applied to institutions benefiting from philanthropy to be accountable for their funding sources. Lately, the opioid epidemic has highlighted that dilemma: New York's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art is the latest museum to turn down money…

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May 16

5 states announce new lawsuits over prescription opioids

By Anthony Izaguirre, Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press

With the suits, 45 states are now taking legal action against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, asserting that the company downplayed the addiction risks of its powerful prescription drug.

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May 01

Desperate to prevent opioid overdoses, states urge greater prescription of naloxone

By Christine Vestal, Stateline

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…

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Apr 24

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How federal case against drug distributor could change opioid fight

Amid the ongoing opioid epidemic, drug manufacturers, doctors and pharmacists have all come under fire. But it's a drug distributor, a company called RDC, at the center of a new federal criminal case that equates its business operations with illegal…

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Apr 23

Ex-CEO is first drug exec indicted in opioid crisis, U.S. Attorney says

By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press

The indictment unsealed Tuesday alleges former Rochester Drug Co-Operative CEO Laurence Doud III ordered subordinates to ignore red flags about certain pharmacy customers to maximize company revenues and his own pay, which more than doubled between 2012 and 2016 as…

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Apr 17

Dozens of medical professionals charged in illegal prescription opioid crackdown

By Dan Sewell, Associated Press

It's what federal authorities are calling the biggest known takedown yet of drug prescribers, which includes 31 doctors charged for their roles in illegally prescribing and distributing millions of pills containing opioids and other dangerous drugs.

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