Tag: Opioids

Beltway Confidential

The death penalty for drug dealers won’t solve the opioid crisis, but the right to try weed might

Matthew Boyer · March 27, 2018 7:51 pm

Some of the 22,000 pills with faces carved into them in a memorial by the National Safety Council have a name under it at the University of Pittsburgh. The names can be entered into an accompanying web page where a visitor can learn the story of that person. The exhibit featuring the wall with the carved medicine pills, each representing the face of someone who fatally overdosed, was launched in Chicago in November 2017.

White House to host opioid memorial

Kimberly Leonard · March 27, 2018 7:40 pm

Five companies are named in the lawsuit, which says drugmakers engaged in fraudulent marketing and downplayed the addictive effects of prescription painkillers. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

DEA deploys 250 additional officers to fight nationwide opioid epidemic

Anna Giaritelli · March 27, 2018 3:38 pm

This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. Abuse of painkillers, heroin, fentanyl and other opioids across the country has resulted in tens of thousands of children being taken from their homes and placed in the foster care system.

Dentists urged to prescribe fewer opioids for tooth pain

Kimberly Leonard · March 26, 2018 10:24 pm

This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. Abuse of painkillers, heroin, fentanyl and other opioids across the country has resulted in tens of thousands of children being taken from their homes and placed in the foster care system.

National Security

Customs officials using new technology to hunt down imported drugs

Anna Giaritelli · March 26, 2018 9:36 pm

Amid a nationwide opioid scourge, a little hope in a small town

Salena Zito · March 25, 2018 3:29 pm

Opioid crisis, illegal immigration set to sabotage 2020 Census

Paul Bedard · March 23, 2018 12:50 pm

Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway arrives for a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

Kellyanne Conway’s advice to millennials: Eat more ice cream, don’t do drugs

Tristan Justice · March 22, 2018 8:08 pm

Eric Bolling pitches himself to Trump as someone who can ‘plug the White House leaks’

Katie Leach · March 22, 2018 8:07 pm

President Donald Trump walks down the steps of the Capitol building after a luncheon with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, Thursday, March 15, 2018, in Washington. From left, Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Varadkar, Trump, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., and Vice President Mike Pence.

Money to fight opioids, superbugs, gun violence included in spending deal

Robert King, Kimberly Leonard · March 22, 2018 2:20 am

Opioid battle gets $4 billion boost in spending bill

Kimberly Leonard · March 22, 2018 1:19 am

From left, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., and House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., appear for a Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony honoring the Office of Strategic Services in Emancipation Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 21, 2018.

Congress introduces $1.3 trillion, 2,232-page funding bill, hopes for passage this week

Susan Ferrechio · March 22, 2018 1:07 am