Tag: Opioids

Beltway Confidential

We’re at risk of losing all our progress in the fight against the opioid crisis

Kelly Sloan · December 13, 2019 4:29 pm

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

First-of-its-kind study concludes that 1996 release of OxyContin played major role in the opioid crisis

Cassidy Morrison · December 2, 2019 9:15 pm

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama pose with President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania at the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017.

‘We live in a democracy’: Melania Trump defends students who booed her

Caitlin Yilek · November 27, 2019 12:18 pm

A metal state trooper's hat hanging from a cross, Wednesday June 2, 2010 along an interstate highway in Miami, serves as a roadside memorial for Trooper Patrick Ambroise, who was killed after a teenage driver plowed into his parked patrol car.

Researchers say ‘something terribly wrong’ after study shows increasing mortality among Americans

Tim Pearce · November 27, 2019 12:22 am

First lady Melania Trump arrives at a roundtable on the opioid epidemic at Cabell-Huntington Health Center in Huntington, WVa., Monday, July 8, 2019.

WATCH: Melania Trump booed during speech about youth opioid awareness

Zach Halaschak · November 26, 2019 5:47 pm

The main activities that drug makers get penalized for are illegally marketing a drug to a doctor, and deliberately overcharging Medicare or Medicaid.

Federal prosecutors open investigation into opioid manufacturers through laws used to pursue drug dealers

Cassidy Morrison · November 26, 2019 1:52 pm

Trump donates third-quarter presidential salary to combat opioid epidemic

Madison Dibble · November 26, 2019 9:02 am

‘On it?’ Smuggling also fuels Wisconsin’s drug abuse problem

Scott Parks · November 25, 2019 12:00 am

The Obama administration's overlooked failure on opioids

Ian Prior · November 23, 2019 12:00 am

U.S. deterrence policy has generated plenty of criticism from Capitol Hill. But that has been aimed at the administration's supposedly narrow view of what constitutes an attack and unwillingness to spell out likely responses.

Meth: The other drug epidemic

Cassidy Morrison · November 14, 2019 11:00 pm

Rural social isolation

Rural areas fall further behind in suffering preventable deaths

Kimberly Leonard · November 7, 2019 4:16 pm

A sign of the Department of Veterans Affairs is shown above.

National Security

VA study finds veterans suffering from severe pain are at higher risk for suicide

Russ Read · November 7, 2019 3:38 pm