Tag: Opioids

Nearly 41 million American adults lack access to a physical university, and of those, 3 million also lack access to an Internet connection suitable for online education.

Efforts to stem opioid abuse have side effects

Washington Examiner Staff · February 13, 2018 5:01 am

The proposal includes $5 billion over five years that would go toward fighting the opioid epidemic, which is responsible for most drug overdose deaths and involves overdoses from prescription painkillers such as OxyContin and illegal drugs like heroin and fentanyl. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Trump requests $5 billion for opioid battle in budget proposal

Kimberly Leonard · February 12, 2018 7:57 pm

OxyContin is Purdue's No.1 drug, although sales have decreased recently due to generics. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey).

Company behind OxyContin will stop promoting opioid drugs to doctors

Diana Stancy Correll · February 10, 2018 4:28 am

President Trump on Friday announced 32 appointments to the White House staff. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump announces 32 White House appointments, including a fill-in for Rob Porter

Daniel Chaitin · February 9, 2018 11:54 pm

Drug criminalization is little more than the state protecting its citizens from their own choices, and then making other citizens pay for that protection. (AP Photo/Mathew Sumner)

Beltway Confidential

Drug criminalization is intrinsically harmful to human societies

Louis Sarkozy · February 9, 2018 5:44 pm

The Tea Party had one tangible achievement to show for all of the havoc it caused: The enactment of spending caps that resulted from the 2011 standoff over raising the debt ceiling. Those caps are now under threat. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)

Republicans repeal the Tea Party

Philip Klein · February 9, 2018 3:44 am

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., (left) and Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., (right) of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee are two of the Advancing Cutting-Edge Research Act's cosponsors. It would give the National Institutes of Health more flexible authority to conduct research on how to address the opioid epidemic. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senators aim to spur creation of non-addictive painkillers

Robert King · February 8, 2018 11:38 pm

The drug is legal under federal law, but FDA officials have recommended it be categorized as a Schedule 1 drug, which would effectively mean that scientists would be unable to study its effects. (AP Photo/Mary Esch, File)

Scientists warn Trump administration that banning kratom will result in more opioid deaths

Kimberly Leonard · February 8, 2018 10:11 pm

The West Virginia state legislature is moving ahead with plans to provide free community college to its residents, so long as they pass a drug test — a contentious addendum in a state rife with opioid abuse. (iStock)

Red Alert Politics

Should West Virginia require drug tests in return for free college?

Brendan Pringle · February 7, 2018 10:54 pm

A budget deal reached Wednesday by Senate leadership includes $6 billion in funding to fight the opioid epidemic, according to a source familiar with the deal, a boost from the extra $1.4 billion that Congress devoted to it in the 2017 and 2018 fiscal years. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

Spending deal includes more funding for anti-opioid epidemic programs, NIH, community health centers

Robert King · February 7, 2018 7:59 pm

Data showed doctors are still prescribing too many opioids, a key driver that fueled the opioid epidemic that federal data shows kills 91 people each day. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Doctors are prescribing too many stronger opioids, says insurance lobby

Robert King · February 7, 2018 5:24 pm

The poll released Wednesday found that 38 percent thought Trump has done a "sufficient amount" to address opioid abuse and 36 percent felt he did not, with 26 percent who had no opinion or didn't know. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Public divided over Trump’s handling of opioid epidemic

Robert King · February 7, 2018 4:00 pm