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Topic: Opioids (page 2)

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

When AI decides what pain meds you get

Andy Miller, Sam Whitehead - KFF Health News
Jamaal Grant as Shawn Flowers, Uzo Aduba as Edie Flowers in "Painkiller." (Keri Anderson/Netflix)

Painkiller's drug dealers who get away

D. Watkins
(L to R) John Rothman as Mortimer Sackler, Matthew Broderick as Richard Sackler, Sam Anderson as Raymond Sackler in Netflix's "Painkiller" (Keri Anderson/Netflix)

"Greedy evil" birthed the opioid crisis

D. Watkins
(Getty/Stuart Ritchie)

Opioid settlement cash going to police

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Opioid settlement payouts made public

Aneri Pattani - KFF Health News
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, over their recent controversial opioid settlement. Participants dropped hundreds prescription bottles of OxyContin while holding tombstones with the names of opioids casualties and banners reading "Shame on Sackler" and "200 Dead Each Day". (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Biden quiet on opioid settlements

Aneri Pattani - KFF Health News
A box of Narcan nasal spray (YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images)

NY docs must give naloxone with opioids

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
Magic Mushroom (Getty Images/VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Drug science in 2023 is gonna be lit

Troy Farah
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Republican Ticking Death Bomb (Illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

There really is a "great replacement"

Mike Lofgren
(Getty/Stuart Ritchie)

The toll of opioids in rural America

Aneri Pattani, Rae Ellen Bichell - KFF Health News
A big part of Donna Norton’s job as a peer support specialist with the Hornbuckle Foundation is building relationships with people in the early stages of recovery from substance use disorders. Norton draws from her own history with addiction, homelessness, and the justice system to help them get back on their feet. (Rae Ellen Bichell/KHN)

"Player-coaches" changing recovery game

Rae Ellen Bichell
At Lehman High School in Kyle, Texas, a poster warns about the dangers of fentanyl. Four students in the Hays Consolidated Independent School District, south of Austin, died from fentanyl overdoses in July and August. (Colleen DeGuzman/KHN)

When fentanyl came to a Texas school

Colleen DeGuzman
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A small bag of straight Fentanyl on display at the State Crime Lab at the Ohio Attorney General's headquarters of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. (Ty Wright for/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Rainbow fentanyl, a Halloween fright?

Joel Best - The Conversation
(Getty/Stuart Ritchie)

Brett Kelman
At a half way house for recovering addicts, supervisors who are in recovery themselves use a fentanyl strip to test for drugs in the urine of a fellow resident on March 22, 2019. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why fentanyl is so deadly

Kavita Babu - The Conversation
(Getty/Stuart Ritchie)

Docs: How opioid firms target doctors

Charles Ornstein - ProPublica
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Can addiction tech curb overdose deaths?

Brian Rinker - KFF Health News
Young woman with drug addiction (Getty Images/seksan Mongkhonkhamsao)

The phone volunteers stopping OD deaths

Mike Fitzgerald
Used hypodermic needles are seen in a bin at the India Street Public Health Center Needle Exchange in Portland, Maine. (Joel Page/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

We're treating addiction all wrong

Ryan Hampton
Rob Portman, Joe Biden and Joe Manchin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dems extend Trump-era drug policy

Igor Derysh
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A man uses heroin under a bridge where he lives with other addicts in the Kensington section of Philadelphia which has become a hub for heroin use on January 24, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Getty/Spencer Platt)

83% Americans think war on drugs failed

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
A worker at the Insite supervised injection Center in Vancouver, Canada, arranges syringes to be used by addicts on May 3, 2011 (Laurent Vu The/AFP via Getty Images)

Jonathan S. Jones
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Medicating isolation

Mattea Kramer - TomDispatch.com
Medics with the Cincinnati Fire Department work to keep a possible overdose victim awake after administering Naloxone while responding to a report at a gas station (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Why naloxone should be everywhere

Nancy D. Campbell
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