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  • York County Now A Part Of The Fight Against Opioid York County Now A Part Of The Fight Against Opioid
    12/20/2021 - 13:26
    York County joined statewide and national fight against opioid companies for the devastating opioid crisis. A 283-page complaint blaming Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson, and other opioid manufacturers for the epidemic was originally…
  • Drug Distributors Win First Opioid Trial Against GA Families Drug Distributors Win First Opioid Trial Against GA Families
    03/02/2023 - 20:08
    Cardinal Health Inc, McKesson Corp, and JM Smith Corp won a trial in Georgia against families of opioid addicts who accused the firms of functioning as drug traffickers.After two days of deliberation, a jury in Glynn County Superior Court…
  • Opioid-reversal Drug's Vending Machine's Popularity Grows Opioid-reversal Drug's Vending Machine's Popularity Grows
    09/13/2022 - 19:32
    A vending machine that can carry up to 150 units of naloxone, the opioid-reversing medicine, has been put in the lobby of the Forsyth County Detention Center to make that transition safer for drug users.According to a drug use educator with…
  • Rising Fentanyl Overdoses Mark '4th Wave' Of Opioid Crisis Rising Fentanyl Overdoses Mark '4th Wave' Of Opioid Crisis
    09/26/2023 - 18:39
    Researchers from the University of California-Los Angeles have reported a dramatic increase of over 50 times in U.S. overdose deaths involving a combination of fentanyl and stimulants over the past 13 years.Fentanyl, an incredibly potent…
  • Practice Fusion, Inc. To Pay $145M In Opioid Case Practice Fusion, Inc. To Pay $145M In Opioid Case
    12/17/2021 - 15:45
    On Monday, Vermont U.S. Attorney Christina Nolan announced that the company Practice Fusion, Inc., will pay $145 million to settle criminal and civil charges as they encouraged physicians to prescribe opioids to patients who might not need…
  • CDC Reports Rural-Urban Gap in Opioid Prescription CDC Reports Rural-Urban Gap in Opioid Prescription
    12/20/2021 - 11:25
    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported that around 9% of rural residents received an opioid prescription in recent years as compared to 5% of urban residents. The reports were published in the latest…
  • Summit County To Get $17B In Opioid Settlement Summit County To Get $17B In Opioid Settlement
    06/21/2023 - 19:23
    Summit County stands to earn a piece of the $209 million that Utah will get as part of a recent nationwide opioid settlement with drugstore chains and pharmaceutical companies.The most recent accord, which is a part of a $17.3 billion…
  • Purdue Hit With Illinois Attorney General’s Lawsuit Purdue Hit With Illinois Attorney General’s Lawsuit
    12/21/2021 - 08:20
    Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma L.P. and Purdue Pharma Inc. (Purdue) blaming them of following deceptive marketing techniques to explode the prescription rates of opioids.Raoul's lawsuit asserted…
  • Antibody Created To Neutralize Deadly Opioid Overdoses Antibody Created To Neutralize Deadly Opioid Overdoses
    08/10/2023 - 21:34
    According to preclinical experiments, scientists created an antibody that has a great chance of undoing the fatal consequences of a carfentanil overdose.A lot of overdoses occur because carfentanil, a strong variation of the synthetic…
  • $600M Settlement Reached Over Opioid Addiction Drug Suboxone $600M Settlement Reached Over Opioid Addiction Drug Suboxone
    12/13/2021 - 11:45
    On Friday, Indivior PLC, a Chesterfield County-based drug company, agreed to pay $600 million after its subsidiary Indivior Solutions Inc., pleaded guilty in federal court in Abingdon over its opioid addiction treatment drug Suboxone.…