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McKinsey advised drug companies on how to 'turbocharge' opioid sales. Now it's under criminal investigation.
Prosecutors are probing McKinsey's role in advising opioid drugmakers. The opioid crisis has killed…
Meghan Morris
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Ukraine should give its soldiers weed instead of opioids so it can avoid a US-style drugs crisis, doctor says
A Ukrainian doctor said soldiers should be prescribed cannabis instead of opioids as the country fa…
Thibault Spirlet
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I conquered a reliance on opioids by using orgasms to control chronic pain
The author shares how she was taking up to 15 opioid pills to manage her pain. She now uses orgasms…
Hannah Shewan Stevens
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1 toddler is dead and 3 others hospitalized after suspected opioid exposure at a day care, police say
Police say they administered Narcan to three toddlers inside a New York City daycare after possible…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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The controversial Sackler family is the focus of Netflix's opioid-crisis drama 'Painkiller.' Here's where the family is now.
Many believe that the Sackler-owned company Purdue Pharma is responsible for igniting the opioid ep…
Libby Torres
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'Painkiller' fact vs. fiction: What the Netflix show got right about the opioid crisis, OxyContin, and the Sackler family
Broderick plays Richard Sackler, a member of the controversial Sackler family that owns Purdue, and…
Libby Torres
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Family of woman who died from ingesting kratom, a legal opioid-like herbal extract, awarded $11 million in damages
A mother of four died in 2021 after ingesting kratom, a legal herbal extract. Its seller has been o…
Tasmin Lockwood
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Jamie Lee Curtis says she'd 'be dead' if she hadn't overcome her opioid addiction: 'I'm lucky'
The "Halloween" actor, who has long been open about her struggles with opioid addiction, discussed …
Barnaby Lane
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Walmart says it's been sued for giving out too many opioids, but also for not giving out enough opioids
Walmart said on Tuesday that lawsuits brought against it over the opioid crisis are "misguided and …
Grace Dean
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Walmart to pay $3.1 billion to settle opioid lawsuits
Walmart joins CVS and Walgreens in paying more than $13 billion to communities to fight opioid addi…
Dave Smith
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Hayden Panettiere reveals she sent her daughter to live with her dad in Ukraine when her alcohol addiction escalated: 'I would have the shakes when I woke up'
"I wanted to be a good mom to her — and sometimes that means letting them go," the "Nashville…
Esme Mazzeo
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Johnson & Johnson and 3 major drug distributors to pay $590 million settlement to Native American tribes that were impacted by opioid epidemic
According to a 2020 Washington Post analysis, Native Americans are 50% more likely to die from an o…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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'Gruesomely disfiguring' zombie drug hits the streets disguised as counterfeit opioids, worrying addiction specialists who warn of flesh-eating effects
Xylazine, known as "tranq" or "tranq dope," is a sedative typically used by veterinarians that has …
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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A man bought seeds online to brew tea for his chronic pain. It led to an opioid addiction.
The 65-year-old patient used poppy seed tea for chronic pain and struggled to stop drinking it on h…
Andrea Michelson
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Snapchat rolls out safety features to cut down on sales of illegal drugs after string of fentanyl deaths
Insider previously found at least two dozen fentanyl-related deaths in which the dealer used Snapch…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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America's deadly synthetic opioid epidemic is being driven by free market capitalism
"We live in a time when certain corporations behave like drug traffickers, and drug traffickers beh…
Paul Constant
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States are banning an energy pill dubbed 'gas station heroin' after people suffer opioid-like withdrawals, paranoia, and hallucinations
Tianeptine, sold under names like Za Za Red, Tianna, and TD Red, will be illegal in Mississippi sta…
Alex Bitter
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Members of the super-rich Sackler family that profited from OxyContin were forced to listen to opioid victims call them the 'scum of the earth'
People who had OxyContin addictions, and who had lost loved ones to the drug, denounced the multi-b…
Bethany Dawson
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NYC Mayor Eric Adams says it's hard to tell the difference between a person 'hooked on cheese' and someone 'hooked on heroin'
Touting plant-based eating, Adams misleadingly said studies show "the same level of brain that enco…
Jake Lahut
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Matthew Perry reveals he almost died after his colon burst from opioid use
Matthew Perry nearly died after his colon burst from opioid use. He wrote about addiction in his me…