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  • Trump Donates Salary to Fight Opioid Crisis
    Trump Donates Salary to Fight Opioid Crisis
    WASHINGTON—Continuing his tradition, President Donald Trump has again donated his salary. The approximately $100,000 for his third quarter salary was given to Health and Human Services (HHS) to be put ...
    December 1, 2017BY Charlotte Cuthbertson
  • Opioid Crisis Cost Economy $504 Billion in 2015: White House
    Opioid Crisis Cost Economy $504 Billion in 2015: White House
    WASHINGTON—The economic cost of the opioid crisis in 2015 was $504 billion, or 2.8 percent of GDP, according ...
    November 20, 2017BY Charlotte Cuthbertson
  • Canada in Brief, Nov. 16-22
    Canada in Brief, Nov. 16-22
    Canada offers UN helicopters, planes, trainers; no decision on where The Trudeau government is formally offering helicopters, transport ...
    November 15, 2017BY The Canadian Press
  • ER Doctor Says We Can’t ‘Band-Aid Over’ Opioid Crisis
    ER Doctor Says We Can’t ‘Band-Aid Over’ Opioid Crisis
    WASHINGTON—A typical scenario looks like this: A 911 call comes in, then emergency services arrive on the scene, ...
    November 14, 2017BY Charlotte Cuthbertson
  • Emergency Doctors Caught in the Middle of Opioid Crisis
    Emergency Doctors Caught in the Middle of Opioid Crisis
    WASHINGTON—A veteran takes heroin to make his PTSD flashbacks stop. A 22-year-old with severe bipolar lives too far ...
    November 2, 2017BY Charlotte Cuthbertson
  • Trump Invokes Family Tragedy in Announcing Opioid Emergency Declaration
    Trump Invokes Family Tragedy in Announcing Opioid Emergency Declaration
    WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump talked about his older brother’s struggle with alcoholism during a speech on America’s opioid crisis ...
    October 26, 2017BY Charlotte Cuthbertson
  • Doctor Charged With Peddling Opioids in $250 Office Visits
    Doctor Charged With Peddling Opioids in $250 Office Visits
    WASHINGTON—A doctor in Western Pennsylvania has been charged with 13 counts of prescribing narcotics—Oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine sulfate, and ...
    October 26, 2017BY Charlotte Cuthbertson
  • Opioid Crisis Is a Nationwide Public Health Emergency: Officials
    Opioid Crisis Is a Nationwide Public Health Emergency: Officials
    WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is formally declaring America’s opioid addiction crisis a nationwide public health emergency this afternoon. Senior ...
    October 26, 2017BY Charlotte Cuthbertson
  • Melania Trump Visits Center for Babies Withdrawing From Drugs
    Melania Trump Visits Center for Babies Withdrawing From Drugs
    WASHINGTON—First Lady Melania Trump continued her work to help fight the opioid crisis on Oct. 10 with a ...
    October 11, 2017BY Charlotte Cuthbertson
  • The Winding Road of a Heroin Addict’s Recovery
    The Winding Road of a Heroin Addict’s Recovery
    DAYTON, Ohio—She was the perfect child, her mother said—straight A's and a 4.2 GPA in school. Then, just ...
    September 5, 2017BY Charlotte Cuthbertson
  • An Addicted County and a Sheriff’s Cry for Help
    An Addicted County and a Sheriff’s Cry for Help
    DAYTON, Ohio—The sheriff of Montgomery County is fighting an uphill battle. He has been fighting it for four ...
    August 23, 2017BY Charlotte Cuthbertson
  • More Access to Prescription Heroin Aims to Curb Opioid Crisis
    More Access to Prescription Heroin Aims to Curb Opioid Crisis
    VANCOUVER—Health Canada's proposal to loosen regulations on importing prescription-grade heroin to treat opioid addiction is being hailed as ...
    April 26, 2017BY The Canadian Press
  • Bronx Battles Opioid Addiction as Death Rate Soars
    Bronx Battles Opioid Addiction as Death Rate Soars
    NEW YORK—The Bronx and Staten Island, as unalike as they may be, share at least two unenviable traits: ...
    December 18, 2016BY Petr Svab
  • Father Livestreams Moment Telling Son His Mother Died of Drug Overdose
    Father Livestreams Moment Telling Son His Mother Died of Drug Overdose
    Ohio Parents Brenden Bickerstaff-Clark and Lacy Wood were drug addicts raising their eight-year-old son Cameron Clark together. Bickerstaff-Clark ...
    October 13, 2016BY Chika Dunu
  • The Rise and Fallout of Prescribing Painkillers: How Americans Bought Into the ‘Epidemic of Pain’
    The Rise and Fallout of Prescribing Painkillers: How Americans Bought Into the ‘Epidemic of Pain’
    For more than a decade, members of a little-known group called the Pain Care Forum have blanketed Washington ...
    September 19, 2016BY The Associated Press
  • Pain Care Lobby Gave $3.5M in Ohio as Opioid Deaths Climbed
    Pain Care Lobby Gave $3.5M in Ohio as Opioid Deaths Climbed
    COLUMBUS, Ohio—As Ohio's overdose epidemic has climbed toward a record high, an army of lobbyists representing makers of ...
    September 18, 2016BY The Associated Press
  • Pennsylvania Opioid Debate May Include Push for Pricier Pill
    Pennsylvania Opioid Debate May Include Push for Pricier Pill
    HARRISBURG, Pa.—Pennsylvania's fight against opioid addiction may include a measure that could pave the way to more expensive ...
    September 18, 2016BY The Associated Press
  • NY Lower Than Most States in Rate of Opioid Prescriptions
    NY Lower Than Most States in Rate of Opioid Prescriptions
    ALBANY, N.Y.—New York ranked fourth among states whose lawmakers drew the most contributions from the opioid industry but ...
    September 18, 2016BY The Associated Press
  • Drug Company Donations Are Large Share of Campaign Cash
    Drug Company Donations Are Large Share of Campaign Cash
    CONCORD, N.H.—Though New Hampshire's Legislature has made tackling the state's opioid abuse crisis a priority, lawmakers also get ...
    September 18, 2016BY The Associated Press
  • Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Opioids Sold as Counterfeits in Deadly New Trend
    Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Opioids Sold as Counterfeits in Deadly New Trend
    In March and April, 56 people in the Sacramento area were hospitalized after taking Norco brand hydrocodone pills. ...
    September 12, 2016BY Axel Adams, Roy Gerona and Samuel Banister
  • Police: Couple Passed out From Heroin in Hot Car With Small Child
    Police: Couple Passed out From Heroin in Hot Car With Small Child
    A North Carolina couple has been accused of injecting heroin while a baby was still in the vehicle. ...
    July 22, 2016BY Jack Phillips
  • DEA: Heroin Epidemic ‘Unprecedented and Horrific’ as Number of Overdose Deaths Triple
    DEA: Heroin Epidemic ‘Unprecedented and Horrific’ as Number of Overdose Deaths Triple
    Fentanyl disguised as prescription pills is a new phenomenon, appearing in the report for the first time. Those ...
    June 30, 2016BY Denisse Moreno
  • Higher Risk of Death With Opioids Than Other Painkillers
    Higher Risk of Death With Opioids Than Other Painkillers
    Long-acting opioids have a significantly higher risk of death when compared with other medications for moderate-to-severe chronic pain.
    June 20, 2016BY Vanderbilt University
  • Opioids Linked With Deaths Other Than Overdoses, Study Says
    Opioids Linked With Deaths Other Than Overdoses, Study Says
    Accidental overdoses aren't the only deadly risk from using powerful prescription painkillers—the drugs may also contribute to heart-related ...
    June 14, 2016BY The Associated Press
  • Fight the Deadly Opioid Epidemic at Its Roots
    Fight the Deadly Opioid Epidemic at Its Roots
    We are in the midst of a deadly drug epidemic so severe and widespread that few people in ...
    June 13, 2016BY Alan Cassels
  • Are Pop Stars Destined to Die Young?
    Are Pop Stars Destined to Die Young?
    Prince's autopsy has determined that the artist died of an accidental overdose of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. The ...
    June 12, 2016BY Greg Hall
  • Prince’s Death From Fentanyl Is Only the Tip of the Global Overdose Iceberg
    Prince’s Death From Fentanyl Is Only the Tip of the Global Overdose Iceberg
    A United States medical examiner has reported that musician Prince died from an overdose of fentanyl, a powerful ...
    June 4, 2016BY Julaine Allan
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