Opioid
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Business
McKinsey Is Under Criminal Investigation for Its Opioid Work
Federal prosecutors are examining the consulting company’s role in helping “turbocharge” the sale of painkillers like OxyContin.
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Politics
Say Hello to Your Addiction Risk Score — Courtesy of the Tech Industry
Before Dr. Bobby Mukkamala — an ear, nose, and throat specialist in Michigan — prescribed post-surgical opioids recently, he checked…
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Politics
Regulating Opioid Prescriptions
Pain management is an inexact science; there is plenty of blame to go around for the abuse of such drugs.
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Politics
The D.E.A. Needs to Stay Out of Medicine
Even when her pancreatic cancer began to invade her spine in the summer of 2021, my mother-in-law maintained an image…
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Politics
We’re Thinking About Pain All Wrong
For many years I’ve written about people suffering intractable pain, and how their agony and increased risk of suicide and…
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Health
‘A Monster’: Super Meth and Other Drugs Push Crisis Beyond Opioids
Dr. Nic Helmstetter crab-walked down a steep, rain-slicked trail into a grove of maple and cottonwood trees to his destination:…
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World
Some Key Facts About Fentanyl
It’s lowering American life expectancy and influencing the nation’s politics.
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Health
An Appeals Court Gave the Sacklers Legal Immunity. Here’s What the Ruling Means.
In return for the shield, the billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma are committed to paying up to $6 billion to…
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Health
Tranq Dope: Animal Sedative Mixed With Fentanyl Brings Fresh Horror to U.S. Drug Zones
PHILADELPHIA — Over a matter of weeks, Tracey McCann watched in horror as the bruises she was accustomed to getting…
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Politics
How to Stop Chronic Pain Suicides
Anne Fuqua keeps a list of suicide deaths. She’s chronicled hundreds of cases of chronic pain sufferers who have killed…