Tag: Opioids

Doctors may feel pressure to prescribe opioids because it may lead to a better score on a patient satisfaction survey, experts said. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

A flawed counter-opioid strategy

Kelly Sloan · July 10, 2021 10:00 am

This Feb. 19, 2013, photo shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy, in Montpelier, Vt. The wealthy family who owns the company that makes OxyContin says Massachusetts got the facts wrong in a lawsuit. Legal papers made public Tuesday, April 2, 2019, represent the first time the Sackler family, who owns the Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma, has responded in court to allegations about its role in the opioid crisis.

Purdue Pharma and states agree to $4.5 billion OxyContin settlement

David Hogberg · July 8, 2021 4:41 pm

In this Jan. 18, 2018 photo, used needles sit in a container inside the Baltimore City Health Department's Needle Exchange Team van in Baltimore.

Biden funds controversial ‘harm reduction’ approach to drug treatment

David Hogberg · July 7, 2021 10:02 am

In this Jan. 18, 2018 photo, used needles sit in a container inside the Baltimore City Health Department's Needle Exchange Team van in Baltimore.

Judge temporarily halts bill to restrict needle exchanges in West Virginia

Washington Examiner · June 30, 2021 8:00 pm

In this Jan. 18, 2018 photo, used needles sit in a container inside the Baltimore City Health Department's Needle Exchange Team van in Baltimore.

ACLU sues West Virginia over needle exchange law

Washington Examiner · June 29, 2021 8:00 pm

The Drug Enforcement Administration reported that fentanyl is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. (Tommy Farmer/Tennessee Bureau of Investigation via AP)

More lethal fentanyl found along the border this year than last

Washington Examiner · June 28, 2021 6:00 pm

Letitia James.

Johnson & Johnson reaches $230 million settlement with New York to end opioid business

Carly Roman · June 26, 2021 8:01 pm

In this Wednesday, April 1, 2015 photo, closed and out of service, the entrance to Sac-Osage Hospital stands empty in Osceola, Mo. After 45 years of providing health are in rural western Missouri, Sac-Osage Hospital is being sold piece-by-piece.

Rural-urban mortality gap points toward a healthcare crisis

David Hogberg · June 18, 2021 3:00 am

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.

Missouri joins rest of nation in creating opioid prescription database

Washington Examiner · June 8, 2021 8:00 pm

In Erie, local politics is practical before it is historic

Salena Zito · June 6, 2021 4:00 am

There are deep roots in these mountains

Salena Zito · May 30, 2021 4:12 am

The Justice Department’s opioid lawsuit against Walmart is pure monkey business

The Justice Department’s opioid lawsuit against Walmart is pure monkey business

Quin Hillyer · May 26, 2021 12:00 am