Tag: Opioids

The challenge of helping individuals with severe pain often leads physicians to overextend the dosage, or, due to fear of over-prescribing, they provide too little. (iStock Photo)

Caregivers need help navigating the opioid crisis

Peter Rosenberger · November 12, 2017 5:01 am

According to the DEA official, drug manufacturers are making "tweaks" to the chemical structure of legal fentanyl and other opioid drugs, which allows them to skirt U.S. scheduling laws when importing the drugs. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Justice Department and DEA expand scheduling and charging for fentanyl-related substances

Kelly Cohen · November 9, 2017 7:32 pm

Trump pressures China on drugs, North Korea

Pete Kasperowicz · November 9, 2017 12:04 pm

FDA hints at pulling more opioids from the market

Robert King · November 7, 2017 10:33 am

Dr. Scott Gottlieb said the Food and Drug Administration may need to be "more potentially intrusive" than it has been during the past decade on combatting the opioid crisis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

FDA chief urges ‘more dramatic action’ on opioids than past administrations

Kimberly Leonard · November 3, 2017 7:02 pm

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said the waiver would allow "thousands more" in the state receive access to treatment. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump administration announces opioid waivers for states

Kimberly Leonard · November 1, 2017 7:00 pm

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie chairs a President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis meeting in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Complex. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump’s opioid commission recommends ‘aggressive’ outreach on opioid awareness

Kimberly Leonard · November 1, 2017 6:59 pm

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported over 18,000 deaths related to opioid overdose in the U.S. in 2014. In 2015 that number nearly doubled and 45 percent of those deaths involved a prescription. (iStock)

A better strategy for treating chronic pain: Rely less on opioids

Paul Christo · November 1, 2017 4:01 am

GAO called on HHS to establish performance goals for expanding access to treatment centers and create timeframes for evaluating those efforts. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

Watchdog: HHS needs more oversight on opioid epidemic goals

Robert King · October 31, 2017 3:50 pm

A report on federal assistance for addiction medications was released two days after President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency, but did not add any new money to combatting the epidemic that kills 91 Americans a day. (iStock)

Federal money to fight opioid crisis may be going to wrong places, new report says

Robert King · October 28, 2017 4:00 pm

According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, its April Prescription Drug Take Back Day yielded nearly 1 million pounds of prescription drugs. In the past 13 Take Back events, the DEA and its partners have taken in more than 8.1 million pounds of pills. (iStock)

How the DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day works

Kelly Cohen · October 28, 2017 4:01 am

Illinois' lawsuit charged Insys Therapeutics with selling a drug intended to relieve cancer pain for other uses without approval.

DEA deploys six regional teams to fight opioid, fentanyl trafficking

Kelly Cohen · October 27, 2017 3:32 pm