Top Executives of Insys, an Opioid Company, Found Guilty of Racketeering
The defendants, from Insys Therapeutics, were accused of conspiring to bribe doctors to prescribe a fentanyl-based paink...
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Top Executives of Opioid Company Found Guilty of Racketeering
The defendants, from Insys Therapeutics, were accused of conspiring to bribe doctors to prescribe a fentanyl-based paink...
The Giants at the Heart of the Opioid Crisis
Civil suits filed by three states accuse pharmaceutical distributors of flooding the country with opioids while devising...
Opioid Sales Reps Swarmed New York at Height of Crisis
New disclosures in the New York attorney general’s lawsuit detail the massive sales efforts of Purdue Pharma and other c...
Lawsuits Lay Bare Sackler Family’s Role in Opioid Crisis
Three generations of the Sackler family were deeply involved in running Purdue Pharma and knew of opioid abuse risks, ac...
Good News: Opioid Prescribing Fell. The Bad? Pain Patients Suffer, Doctors Say.
Doctors and insurers are using federal guidelines as cover to turn away patients, experts tell the C.D.C. and Congress.
The Opioid Dilemma: Saving Lives in the Long Run Can Take Lives in the Short Run
Limiting prescriptions seems logical, but a simulation study shows it would actually increase deaths, not decrease them,...
A Restaurant Takes On the Opioid Crisis, One Worker at a Time
A Kentucky couple realized that restaurants have an unusual power to help addicted people recover, and created DV8 Kitch...
Even More Doctors Are Cutting Back On Opioid Painkillers
Around 7 in 10 doctors have cut back on their prescriptions of opioid painkillers or stopped prescribing them entirely i...
Even More Doctors Are Cutting Back On Opioid Painkillers
Around 7 in 10 doctors have cut back on their prescriptions of opioid painkillers or stopped prescribing them entirely i...
