[ad_1] Private insurers across the country and Texas have engaged in the very public fight against opioid addiction, with some totally refusing coverage of OxyContin, the best-known drug related to the crisis. …
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[ad_1] MONDAY, Sept. 10, 2018 (HealthDay News) – The United States is plagued by an epidemic of addiction to opioid analgesics. But now, research shows that in almost a third of cases, …
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[ad_1] TO CLOSE Karen Siska-Creel beat her when she decided that all schools in her district should have life-saving medication to treat heroin overdoses, but she would not wait for someone to …
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[ad_1] Broken emails Receive alerts and special reports. News and stories that matter, delivered in the morning on weekdays. SUBSCRIBE Doctors have given no good reason to prescribe opioids to patients nearly …
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[ad_1] In total, opioids were prescribed in nearly 809 million outpatient visits over a 10-year period, with 66.4% of these prescriptions being used to treat non-cancer pain and 5.1% for cancer pain, …
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[ad_1] On Friday, the Financial Times reported that billionaire pharmaceutical magnate Richard Sackler had been granted a patent for a new drug to treat opioid addiction. The drug, a buprenorphine reformulation, is …
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[ad_1] Richard Sackler and his billionaire family, who have been accused of promoting the country's ongoing opioid epidemic, own a second pharmaceutical company. The Sacklers are the owners of Purdue Pharma, which …
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[ad_1] By GEOFF MULVIHILLAssociated Press A company whose prescription opioid marketing practices are accused of triggering the drug and overdose crisis said it was helping to fund an antidote for overdoses at …
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[ad_1] After hundreds of lawsuits over the drug giant Purdue Pharma over the years, the Colorado Attorney General is suing the creator of OxyContin for his "significant role in spreading the opioid …
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