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Some spring break travelers misuse painkillers contaminated with fentanyl. Advocates hope equipping more people with Narcan will save lives.
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Under the agreement, McKinsey must establish a fund to reimburse insurers, private benefit plans and others for some or all of their prescription opioid costs.
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In a growing number of states, patients who get opioids for serious pain may leave their doctors’ offices with a second prescription — for naloxone, a…
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A Senate Democrat on Thursday filed a proposal that would allow public schools to buy a type of drug that is used to treat people who have overdosed on…
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A state medical board has agreed to add two more companies to the growing list of vendors authorized to offer a two-hour continuing education course on…
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Bills filed in the Florida House and Senate could give patients more control over how they're treated for pain.
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About one in four Florida health care providers failed to take a two-hour continuing education course on proper opioid prescribing by the required Jan....
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Palm Beach County has been the epicenter of the opioid crisis in Florida. But data from the county’s state attorney office shows opioid deaths decreased...
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Researchers sketched a vivid line Friday linking the dollars spent by drugmakers to woo doctors around the country to a vast opioid epidemic that has led…
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In a detailed memorandum, Attorney General Maura Healey alleges eight Sackler family members and nine Purdue board members or executives played key roles in the nation's deadly opioid epidemic.
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Opioids are prescribed differently to injured workers, with factors such as age, gender, type of job and size of business making a difference, a new…
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Opioid manufacturers and distributors will be defending themselves against cases brought by thousands of communities around the country.