Tag: Opioids

South Carolina is suing the maker of popular painkiller Oxycontin for deceptively marketing the addictive opioid. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

South Carolina sues Oxycontin maker

Robert King · August 15, 2017 3:31 pm

First lady Melania Trump is expected to announce the causes she will champion as first lady "in the coming weeks." (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Melania Trump likely to champion causes on ‘well-being of children’

Caitlin Yilek · August 15, 2017 3:04 pm

Caldwell on Addiction and Religion

John McCormack · August 14, 2017 7:00 pm

President Trump: Opioid Crisis a “National Emergency”

Andrew Egger · August 11, 2017 9:05 am

Gov. Chris Christie, with his wife Mary Pat Christie, after the two cast their votes at the Brookside Emergency Services Building during the primary election on Tuesday in Mendham, N.J. Christie, neutral during the race, said he voted for longtime ally Kim Guadagno and would campaign for her, but his unpopularity makes it unclear whether that would help. (Bob Karp/The Daily Record via AP)

Chris Christie says Trump ‘deserves credit’ for declaring opioid epidemic national emergency

Josh Siegel · August 11, 2017 1:51 am

"Building upon the recommendations in the interim report from the president's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, President Donald J. Trump has instructed his administration to use all appropriate emergency and other authorities to respond to the crisis caused by the opioid epidemic," Trump said in a statement. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump officially declares opioid epidemic a national emergency

Josh Siegel · August 10, 2017 10:29 pm

Formal declaration would lead to greater access to grant funding and would waive rules to expand access to opioid treatments. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Emergency declaration could cut red tape on fighting opioids

Robert King · August 10, 2017 8:33 pm

The Trump administration is drawing up paperwork to make an official declaration, the president said Thursday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump: Opioid crisis a ‘national emergency’

Kimberly Leonard · August 10, 2017 7:17 pm

New Hampshire on Tuesday became the latest state to launch a lawsuit against a prescription painkiller manufacturer, Perdue Pharma, for deceptively marketing OxyContin. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

New Hampshire sues opioid makers for deceptive marketing

Kimberly Leonard · August 9, 2017 3:39 pm

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito is proposing a solution to the GOP's healthcare woes that pleases West Virginians -- one that would keep parts of Obamacare, but let people and companies escape the law's mandates, and also boost funding to fight opioid addiction. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Shelley Moore Capito: Kill Obamacare mandates, but keep the subsidies

Susan Ferrechio · August 9, 2017 4:01 am

Trump Declares War on Opioids

Andrew Egger · August 8, 2017 9:45 pm

Trump declined to accept a recommendation by the administration's opioid commission to declare a national emergency for the crisis. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Kellyanne Conway: US ‘currently on losing side’ of opioid epidemic

Gabby Morrongiello · August 8, 2017 9:24 pm