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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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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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The $7 billion Purdue bankruptcy plan giving the Sacklers immunity from more lawsuits gets nixed by Supreme Court
A 5-4 split among Supreme Court justices just killed Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy plan — and th…
Jack Newsham
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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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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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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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New York City will install 10 vending machines that dispense Naloxone and clean needles to help fight the opioid crisis
In New York City, 2,062 people died from unintentional overdoses in 2020, the highest rate since re…
Francis Agustin
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A Long Island doctor has been charged with murder after prescribing painkillers to 5 patients already addicted to opioids
Prosecutors called the doctor a "serial killer," and said he prescribed drugs from his car, an aban…
Michelle Mark
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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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Walmart says the Justice Department's opioid epidemic lawsuit is 'tainted by historical ethics violations'
Walmart's statement says the DOJ is trying to shift blame for its own failures, and says the lawsui…
Mary Meisenzahl
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The Justice Department is suing Walmart, accusing the retailer of turning its pharmacies into a network of opioid suppliers that helped fuel the epidemic
The DOJ alleges Walmart did not properly screen opioid prescriptions, understaffed pharmacies, and …
Mary Meisenzahl
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New York City opens the country's first official center for drug users to shoot up safely to prevent overdose deaths
On the first day of operations, staff at the East Harlem and Washington Heights centers saw more th…
Andrea Michelson
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Walmart is suing the federal government in a preemptive strike against claims the retailer fueled the opioid crisis by filling suspicious prescriptions
"Unfortunately, certain DOJ officials have long seemed more focused on chasing headlines than fixin…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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The fentanyl-laced cocaine that killed an LA comedian is showing up everywhere - here's why it's so deadly and how to avoid it
Comedian Fuquan Johnson died in Los Angeles after taking fentanyl-laced cocaine. Similar overdoses …
Andrea Michelson
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An FDA official who led the approval of OxyContin got a $400,000 gig at Purdue Pharma a year later, a new book reveals
The FDA approved OxyContin in 1995 believing it would result in "less abuse potential." In 2001, th…
Allana Akhtar
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The oxycontin-peddling Sackler family has tried to get immunity from civil lawsuits by filing for bankruptcy. That might be illegal.
The US Supreme Court will hear arguments that could have far-reaching effects on how corporations d…
Katie Balevic
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The deaths of actor Michael K. Williams and comedian Fuquan Johnson show the opioid epidemic is far from over
The prevalence of fentanyl - a highly potent synthetic opioid - in street drugs is putting even cas…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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McKinsey has agreed to pay $573 million over its role in boosting opioid sales during an epidemic that has killed more than 450,000 Americans
The global consulting firm will not admit wrongdoing in the settlement, which was made with 47 stat…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Stop treating prescription meds and illegal drugs differently
Stigmatizing illegal drugs pushes people who need help to the margins, and treating all prescriptio…