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Topic: Opioid Crisis

Members of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) and Truth Pharm staged a protest on September 12, 2019 outside Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Getty Images)

Victims shut out of Purdue settlement

Craig R. McCoy, Bob Fernandez - ProPublica
Prince performs his first of three shows onstage during "One Night... Three Venues" in 2009 t (Photo by Kristian Dowling/Getty Images)

Prince could only have died in America

Alex Galbraith
Opioid epidemic health danger and medical crisis with a prescription painkiller addiction concept as a group of pills devastating a patient (Getty Images)

Surviving Appalachia’s opioid crisis

Mandi Fugate Sheffel
Donald Trump silhouette over COVID-19 spores (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s cruel calculus on public health

Claire Zagorski, Chad Sabora
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Jamaal Grant as Shawn Flowers, Uzo Aduba as Edie Flowers in "Painkiller." (Keri Anderson/Netflix)

Painkiller's drug dealers who get away

D. Watkins
Police | Narcan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

After drug busts, drug overdoses soar

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/Stuart Ritchie)

The toll of opioids in rural America

Aneri Pattani, Rae Ellen Bichell - KFF Health News
J.D. Vance, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, speaks during a campaign rally at The Trout Club on April 30, 2022 in Newark, Ohio. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

J.D. Vance has a Purdue problem

Jon Skolnik
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Two prescription bottles with pain pills spilling out of them (Getty Images)

Reconsidering opioid treatment

Maia Szalavitz - Undark
Purdue Pharma headquarters stands in downtown Stamford, April 2, 2019 in Stamford, Connecticut. Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and its owners, the Sackler family, are facing hundreds of lawsuits across the country for the company's alleged role in the opioid epidemic that has killed more than 200,000 Americans over the past 20 years. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Victims of opioids stand to get nothing

Ryan Hampton
Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump, Giuliani's ties to opioid crisis

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story
Firefighters and paramedics with Anne Arundel County Fire Department wear enhanced PPE, during the coronavirus pandemic, as they treat a patient in cardiac arrest as a result of a drug overdose on May 6, 2020, in Brooklyn, Maryland. (ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

"Stealth" opioid overdoses on the rise

Nicole Karlis
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Dr. Michael Ford's office sits closed after he was found guilty on 15 charges of prescription and Medicaid fraud in a remote area of southwestern Virginias coal country where prescription opioids flooded the area decimating communities like Appalachia, Virginia, on Monday July 22, 2019. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Big Pharma needs an Appalachian elegy

Bobi Conn
Purdue Pharma headquarters stands in downtown Stamford, April 2, 2019 in Stamford, Connecticut. Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and its owners, the Sackler family, are facing hundreds of lawsuits across the country for the company's alleged role in the opioid epidemic that has killed more than 200,000 Americans over the past 20 years. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Purdue pleads guilty in opioid case

Matthew Rozsa
Opioid epidemic health danger and medical crisis with a prescription painkiller addiction concept as a group of pills devastating a patient (Getty Images)

Americans don't get the social contract

Jack Shuler
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, a democratic presidential candidate, prepares to speak during the U.S Conference of Mayors 88th Winter Meeting at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, January 22, 2020. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Bloomberg gave Sacklers PR help

Hannah Dreier - Common Dreams
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OxyContin pill bottles scattered in front of protestors of the opioid crisis. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The opioid crisis is a big issue in NH

Amanda Latimore - The Conversation
Tough Love Medicine (Salon/Ilana Lidagoster)

Tough love doesn't help addicts

Erin Khar
Scientists doing research on desktop PC in a laboratory. (Getty Images)

Pushing docs to prescribe opioids

Matthew Rozsa
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Purdue Pharma may become a public trust

David Herzberg - The Conversation
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OxyContin pill bottles scattered in front of protestors of the opioid crisis. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The opioid crisis in perspective

Mattea Kramer - TomDispatch.com
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Inside Purdue Pharma’s media playbook

David Armstrong - ProPublica
Democratic presidential candidate entrepreneur Andrew Yang speaks during the Climate Forum at Georgetown University, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Andrew Yang 2020 — but not for president

Bob Hennelly
In this photo taken Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018, Linda Montel shows off supplies on a check in desk at Safer Inside, a realistic model of a safe injection site in San Francisco. The model is an example of a supervised, indoor location where intravenous drug users can consume drugs in safer conditions and access treatment and recovery services. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

It’s time for drug policy reform

Louise Arbour, Geoff Gallop, Miriam Aroni Krinsky
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