Opioids

OxyContin pills are arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Healthcare

Senate inches forward on opioid package after Trump tweet

August 21, 2018 6:14 pm

Healthcare

The opioid epidemic is a cultural problem, it requires cultural solutions

Ericka Andersen -

August 21, 2018 12:00 am

In this Friday, June 1, 2018, photo, small vials of fentanyl are shown in the inpatient pharmacy at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City. Amid the nation's opioid epidemic, hospitals are struggling to get widely used injected pain medicines because of ongoing supply shortages. The shortages affect just about every corner of the hospital, from the operating room and emergency department.

Healthcare

Trump calls for ending fentanyl shipments through postal system

Robert King -

August 20, 2018 5:34 pm

Healthcare

Insurers, businesses and unions join to try to stop opioid bill in Senate

Robert King -

August 20, 2018 3:53 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018 file photo, paramedics and EMT members respond to one of three simultaneous drug overdose victims on the New Haven Green, a city park in New Haven, Conn. Police swarmed a Connecticut park near Yale University and searched people's homes for drugs Thursday in an effort to prevent more overdoses from a batch of synthetic marijuana blamed for sending more than 70 people to the hospital.

Beltway Confidential

Here’s why the term ‘synthetic marijuana’ is misleading

Erin Dunne -

August 17, 2018 4:43 pm

President Trump this week slammed Attorney General Jeff Sessions for asking the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General to investigate alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Healthcare

Trump urges federal lawsuit against opioid manufacturers

Melissa Quinn -

August 16, 2018 5:16 pm

Nurse Brian Toia holds tabs of buprenorphine, a drug which controls heroin and opioid cravings, as he prepares to administer the drug.

Beltway Confidential

To fight the opioid crisis, the US needs to look at what works

Erin Dunne -

August 16, 2018 5:02 pm

In this Sept. 27, 2017 photo, kratom capsules are displayed in Albany, N.Y. The Food and Drug Administration said in a notice Wednesday that manufacturers of supplements containing kratom should take their products off the market. (AP Photo/Mary Esch)

Healthcare

Salmonella scare prompts Kratom recall

Robert King -

August 16, 2018 2:35 pm

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.

Healthcare

Drugs killed almost 72,000 people last year, a record

Kimberly Leonard -

August 15, 2018 10:02 pm

Red Alert Politics

1 in 5 college students knows someone addicted to opioids

John Patrick -

August 15, 2018 7:18 pm

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Tag: Opioids

Senate inches forward on opioid package after Trump tweet

The opioid epidemic is a cultural problem, it requires cultural solutions

Trump calls for ending fentanyl shipments through postal system

Insurers, businesses and unions join to try to stop opioid bill in Senate

Here’s why the term ‘synthetic marijuana’ is misleading

Trump urges federal lawsuit against opioid manufacturers

To fight the opioid crisis, the US needs to look at what works

Salmonella scare prompts Kratom recall

Drugs killed almost 72,000 people last year, a record

1 in 5 college students knows someone addicted to opioids

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