Tag: Synthetic drugs
Protesters rally outside court during Purdue Pharma hearing
BOSTON (AP) - Parents who lost children to fatal overdoses and other addiction recovery activists are rallying outside a Boston courthouse Friday as a...
Trump administration tightens opioid prescriptions for feds
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government's employee health plan will tighten its rules for covering prescription opioid painkillers starting this fall, the Trump administration said...
Big question in opioid suits: How to divide any settlement
The roughly 2,000 state and local governments suing the drug industry over the deadly opioid crisis have yet to see any verdicts or reach...
Big question in opioid suits: How to divide any settlement
The roughly 2,000 state and local governments suing the drug industry over the deadly opioid crisis have yet to see any verdicts or reach...
As the nation’s opioid crisis grew, the pills got stronger
WASHINGTON (AP) - In 2012, as the death toll from the nation's opioid crisis mounted, drug companies shipped out enough of the powerful and...
No obligation to the public, opioid distributor tells lawyer
WASHINGTON (AP) - An executive at one of the nation's largest drug distribution companies said under questioning recently that the business has no obligation...