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September 11, 2019

Purdue Pharma reaches tentative settlement in opioid lawsuit, but some states aren't on board

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, reached a tentative deal Wednesday with dozens of states and thousands of local governments over its role in exacerbating the nation's opioid crisis.

May 1, 2019

West Virginia hospitals sue opioid companies; want damages

Hospitals in West Virginia have banded together to sue some of the country's largest opioid companies, saying they flooded Appalachia with powerful painkillers and forced medical centers to deal with the financial repercussions.

April 11, 2019

Health officials warn against rapidly tapering down opioids for pain patients: ‘It’s a game-changer’

The U.S. federal health agencies behind efforts to address the nation's harrowing opioid epidemic took major steps this week to address a brewing public health crisis involving pain patients who have been wrongly cut off or abruptly tapered down from their prescription painkillers. 

March 27, 2019

Gov. Cuomo's proposed prescription opioid surcharge under fire, critics call it tax on pain

A proposal by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to impose a surcharge on the sale of prescription opioids is drawing fire from a coalition of doctors, pharmacists and patients who say it amounts to a tax on pain.

February 20, 2019

Doctors have been prescribing fentanyl to the wrong patients for years, new study finds

Prescription fentanyl, a highly potent and immediate-release drug meant for people with advanced cancer who have been on an opioid treatment, has been inappropriately prescribed to people who did not meet the criteria, says a new study by Johns Hopkins University researchers.

January 30, 2019

Former stripper-turned-drug exec gave doctor lap dance while pitching painkiller, witness testifies

A witness has testified that an ex-stripper-turned-drug company executive gave a doctor a lap dance as part of a sales pitch for an addictive fentanyl spray.

January 22, 2019

New Jersey mom allegedly on drugs rolls onto toddler son, killing him, prosecutors say

A New Jersey mother allegedly killed her young son when she passed out on him while she had alcohol and drugs in her system.

December 19, 2018

Frustrated opioid patients speak out: 'I now buy heroin on the street'

Hundreds of people who reached out to Fox News through emails, and messages on social media, following the publication of a three-part series on the nation's struggle to address its crippling opioid crisis caused mainly by illegal drugs, and the unintended victims – chronic pain sufferers who have relied on prescribed opioids for relief -- left in its wake. 

December 14, 2018

Fentanyl now deadliest drug in America, meth overdoses growing, CDC says

Fentanyl is now the deadliest drug in America, beating out heroin and oxycodone which had previously been involved in the most overdose fatalities between 2011 and 2016.

December 12, 2018

Tough new opioid policies leave some cancer and post-surgery patients without painkillers

New federal and state hard lines on painkiller prescriptions are affecting even cancer patients and people fresh out of major surgeries.