NPR: University of Michigan Medical School Study: Opioid Addiction Drug Going Mostly To Whites, Even As Black Death Rate Rises
White drug users addicted to heroin, fentanyl and other opioids have had near exclusive access to buprenorphine, a drug that
Read more…Debt holders are placing all-or-nothing bets on junk bonds from drug makers embroiled in lawsuits over the opioid epidemic
Read more…WIRED: The Unseen Victims of the Opioid Crisis Are Starting to Rebel
https://www.wired.com/story/the-true-victims-of-the-opioid-crisis-are-starting-to-rebel/
The campaign to keep opioids away from people who abuse them has ended up punishing the people
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Congressional report: Purdue Pharma influenced World Health Organization’s opioid guidelines
Read more…Posted on by Dr. Francis Collins
A few weeks ago, I was pleased to take part in the announcement of NIH’s HEALing Communities Study in four states hard hit by the opioid epidemic. This study will
Read more…Most states are keeping a close eye on opioid overdose deaths, but they may need to start focusing
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Good afternoon, readers.
There may never be true justice for the countless American families who have suffered in the opioid addiction epidemic—a crisis for which the medical industry itself carries plent
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There has been an increasing interest in developing checklists and other types of succinct and enumerated approaches to concretely tackling the opioid crisis. Our colleague Paul Wormeli recently shared one such example, from Netsmart. Here
Read more…Here is a link to a YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qCKR6wy94U
Here is a link to the "Sackler Gallery" starring four famous actors: https://www.sacklergallery.com/
Read more…Last week, the NIC convened a webinar titled, "Getting Upstream of the Opioid Crisis - The Critical Role of Prevention". Its description reads as follows: "Our next Deeper Dive webinar will focus on the critical importance of “getting upstream” to mo
Read more…https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/15/health/opioid-traffic-accidents-study/index.html
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(CNN)Patients who are prescribed opioids and the clinicians who prescribe themhave more to be concerned a
Study: Long-term opioid use by one or more family members was associated to persistent opioid use by adolescents prescribed opioids after common
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CEO Steve Collis received a $1.6 million
New York Times Opinion:
Contrary to media portrayals, overdose deaths are ravaging communities of color.
By Abdullah Shihipar
FDA takes fresh look at whether opioids are effective for chronic pain
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Increasingly, pain patients who need high doses of opioids ar
CNN/JAMA: These states have been hit the hardest by America's opioid epidemic
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/22/health/opioid-deaths-states-study/index.html
(CNN)While there's early evidence that the explosive rate of opioid deaths has started to sl
Read more…Artist Drops Massive Opioid Spoon at Entrance of Another Sackler-Owned Drug Manufacturer
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Yesterday, February 7, artist
Read more…PAIN Sackler Storms Guggenheim and Metropolitan Museums for Financial Ties to Opioid Manufacturers
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Nan Goldin a
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