More Doctors Can Now Prescribe Buprenorphine to Opioid Users. Will It Help?
The federal government loosened regulations for buprenorphine, but health experts [...]
New Approaches to the Drug Overdose Crisis
Responses to Jeneen Interlandi’s article and the accompanying editorial. Also: [...]
Opioid Distributors Cleared of Liability to Georgia Families Ravaged by Addiction
The case illustrates the enormous challenges that victims of the [...]
Biden Proposal Would Ban Online Prescribing of Certain Drugs
Some medications, like Ritalin and Vicodin, would require an in-person [...]
Narcan Is Safe to Sell Over the Counter, Advisers to the FDA Conclude
The overdose reversal drug has been administered mostly by emergency [...]
Justice Dept. Sues AmerisourceBergen Over Role in Opioid Crisis
Investigators said the pharmaceutical manufacturer, one of the nation’s largest, [...]
Walmart Agrees to Pay $3.1 Billion to Settle Opioid Lawsuits
The money would help pay for addiction treatment and drug [...]
Medication Treatment for Addiction Is Shorter for Black and Hispanic Patients, Study Finds
The analysis of 15 years of prescription data showed that [...]
Drug Maker Teva to Pay Over $500 Million in New York Drug Case Settlement
The last remaining defendants in New York’s once-sprawling opioid trial [...]
CVS and Walgreens Near $10 Billion Deal to Settle Opioid Cases
The dual agreements would resolve thousands of lawsuits over the [...]