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    OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. The global business consulting firm McKinsey & Company has agreed to a $573 million settlement over its role in the opioid crisis.
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    Consulting Giant McKinsey To Settle States' Opioid Claims For $573 Million

    Feb 04, 2021
    McKinsey is the latest major American corporation to face legal, financial and public relations peril stemming from its role in the nation's deadly opioid epidemic.
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    McKinsey Apologizes For Helping Purdue Pharma 'Turbocharge' Opioid Sales

    Dec 09, 2020
    The corporate consulting giant issued a rare apology for its behind-the-scenes work with Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin. One senator called McKinsey's behavior "abhorrent."
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    Newly public documents detail the role of members of the Sackler family, owners of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, during years when the privately owned drug company launched criminal schemes designed to "turbocharge" sales of Oxycontin and other highly a
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    Critics Want Sacklers To Face Criminal Charges For Role In Opioid Crisis

    Nov 25, 2020
    A new plea deal with the Justice Department is the second time the family-owned company admitted criminal schemes to boost Oxycontin sales. Despite their hands-on role, the Sacklers face no charges.
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    'We Are Shipping To The U.S.': Inside China's Online Synthetic Drug Networks

    Nov 17, 2020
    China banned fentanyl last year, but an NPR investigation reveals how Chinese vendors continue to market the chemicals used to make the drug on e-commerce and social media sites.
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    Researchers point to a devastating new development: Fentanyl is making swift inroads in the western U.S., where it used to be rare.
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    Street Fentanyl Surges In Western U.S., Leading To Thousands Of Deaths

    Nov 17, 2020
    New research shows the use of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl spreading fast in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Seattle. Chinese companies are routing the street drug through cartels in Mexico.
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    President Donald Trump speaks at the Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit on April 24, 2019 in Atlanta. President Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency.
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    Opioid Crisis: Critics Say Trump Fumbled Response To Another Deadly Epidemic

    Oct 29, 2020
    President Trump promised to end America's opioid crisis. On his watch overdose deaths flattened in 2018 then surged again to record levels.
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    Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, Conn., in 2019. Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and its owners, the Sackler family, have faced hundreds of lawsuits over the company's alleged role in the opioid epidemic that has killed more than 200,000 Am
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    Purdue Pharma Reaches $8B Opioid Deal With Justice Department Over OxyContin Sales

    Oct 21, 2020
    Critics say the settlement doesn't hold company executives or members of the Sackler family accountable for their aggressive marketing of OxyContin, which helped fuel the nation's opioid epidemic.
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    The federal government estimates one in 10 healthcare workers experience substance use disorder. There is rising concern that medical professionals are stealing powerful opioid pain medications meant for their patients.
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    Some Health Workers Suffering From Addiction Steal Drugs Meant For Patients

    Oct 05, 2020
    The Drug Enforcement Agency relies on hospitals to identify nurses and doctors who misuse drugs such as morphine and fentanyl. But "only a fraction of those who are diverting drugs are ever caught."
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    Reno Doctor Faces Up To 20 Years After Guilty Opioid Plea

    Mar 03, 2020

    RENO, Nev. (AP) — A 51-year-old Nevada doctor faces a maximum of up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to illegally distribute opioids.

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    Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor was convicted in a bribery and kickback scheme that prosecutors said helped fuel the opioid crisis.
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    Pharmaceutical Executive John Kapoor Sentenced To 66 Months In Prison In Opioid Trial

    Jan 23, 2020
    His sentencing is the culmination of a months-long criminal trial that resulted in the first successful prosecution of pharmaceutical executives tied to the opioid epidemic.
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    John Kapoor, founder of Arizona-based Insys Therapeutics, is scheduled to be sentenced this month.
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    Pharmaceutical Executives Face Prison Time In Case Linked To Opioid Crisis

    Jan 13, 2020
    John Kapoor, the former billionaire who founded drugmaker Insys Therapeutics, is among the executives to be sentenced for racketeering.
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    Cardinal Health was one of a handful of corporations to strike a last-minute settlement with two Ohio counties, to avoid the first major trial in the landmark federal litigation effort concerning the opioid health crisis.
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    Opioid Trial: 4 Companies Reach Tentative Settlement With Ohio Counties

    Oct 21, 2019
    Four defendants, including three big U.S. distributors, have struck a deal with Summit and Cuyahoga counties. It doesn't resolve thousands of other lawsuits filed against the firms across the U.S.
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    Dr. Joel Smithers was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Wednesday for illegal opioid prescriptions.
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    Doctor Gets 40 Years For Illegally Prescribing More Than Half A Million Opioid Doses

    Oct 02, 2019
    Dr. Joel Smithers was convicted in May of more than 800 federal counts of illegal drug distribution. He was facing life in prison and a $200 million fine. The court ordered him to pay $86,000.
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    Brian Benczkowski, assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's criminal division, announcing arrests for illegal opioid sales in April. On Wednesday, he revealed another 11 arrests of doctors for illegal distribution of opioids.
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    U.S. Accuses 11 Doctors Of Illegally Peddling Opioids In Appalachian States

    Sep 25, 2019
    "We will find you and ensure that the justice system treats you like the drug dealer you are," said Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski.
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    Utah Man Found Guilty Of Running Massive Opioid Ring

    Aug 31, 2019

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man has been found guilty of running a multimillion-dollar opioid ring that sent hundreds of thousands of potentially deadly pills across the country from his suburban basement.

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    State's attorney Brad Beckworth lays out one of his closing arguments in Oklahoma's case against drugmaker Johnson & Johnson at the Cleveland County Courthouse in Norman, Okla. in July. The judge in the case ruled Monday that J&J must pay $572 million to
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    Oklahoma Wanted $17 Billion To Fight Its Opioid Crisis: What's The Real Cost?

    Aug 26, 2019
    The $572 million judgment against Johnson & Johnson will cover one year of addiction treatment and prevention the judge says. But health economists predict it will take decades to abate the problem.
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    Drug agents last fall worked with a Minneapolis police SWAT team to seize just under 171 pounds of methamphetamine. Many U.S. states say they face an escalating problem with meth and drugs other than opioids.
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    Federal Grants Restricted To Fighting Opioids Miss The Mark, States Say

    Jun 13, 2019
    The U.S. government has doled out at least $2.4 billion in state grants since 2017, specifically targeting the opioid epidemic. Yet drug abuse problems seldom involve only one substance.
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    Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor departs federal court in Boston, Jan. 30. On Monday the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, saying it needs to sell its assets to pay back creditors. Kapoor, who was convicted last month of racketeering, owns m
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    Insys Files For Chapter 11, Days After Landmark Opioid Settlement Of $225 Million

    Jun 10, 2019
    The maker of a highly addictive fentanyl-based drug wants to sell its assets to pay some $250 million in debts. The move could let the company out of part of the settlement deal reached last week.
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    Teva Pharmaceuticals has reached a settlement with the state of Oklahoma over its alleged role in fueling the opioid epidemic. In March, drugmaker Purdue Pharma agreed to a $270 million settlement.
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    Teva Pharmaceuticals Agrees To $85 Million Settlement With Oklahoma In Opioid Case

    May 26, 2019
    Oklahoma's attorney general had filed a lawsuit against the Israel-based company for its alleged role in fueling the opioid crisis.
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    In Massachusetts last July, several Franklin County Jail inmates, seated, were watched by a nurse (left) and a corrections officer after receiving their daily doses of buprenorphine, a drug that helps control opioid cravings. By some estimates, at least
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    County Jails Struggle With A New Role As America's Prime Centers For Opioid Detox

    Apr 24, 2019
    The National Sheriffs' Association has published a detailed guide to jail-based medication-assisted treatment. States hardest hit by opioids are moving fastest to get inmates the help needed to quit.
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    One person has died and a total of 12 people were taken to the hospital after a mass drug overdose in Chico, Calif. Above, syringes of the opiate fentanyl appear at an inpatient pharmacy.
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    1 Dead And 12 Hospitalized After Mass Drug Overdose In California

    Jan 13, 2019
    Police officers administered CPR after arriving at a home in Chico, California, where the drug overdose occurred. Four people are in critical condition.
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    "People have to be alive to get the help that they need," said Brittney Webster, who got free naloxone at a health center in Carlisle, Pa.
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    In Pennsylvania, People Lined Up For Free Naloxone

    Dec 14, 2018
    Across the state, volunteers in Pennsylvania distributed naloxone on Thursday. The drug reverses the effects of opioid overdose. The giveaway was part of a state plan to combat the opioid epidemic.
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    Offering therapy to children in need at school makes sense, says Sarah Nadeau, who adopted two girls from a family that struggled with addiction, because sometimes school is the only stable place they have.
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    School-Based Counselors Help Kids Cope With Fallout From Drug Addiction

    Dec 05, 2018
    More than 50 Massachusetts schools are participating in a new program that brings counselors in to help children deal with the stress and trauma of living in families struggling with drug addiction.
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    Kristen Philman first tried methamphetamine in her early 20s, as an alternative to heroin and other opioids. When she discovered she was pregnant, she says, it was a wake-up call, and she did what she needed to do to stop using all those drugs.
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    Another Drug Crisis: Methamphetamine Use By Pregnant Women

    Nov 29, 2018
    As illegal meth use has made a comeback across the U.S., pregnant women have not been spared, doctors say. New research shows rural areas in the South, Midwest and West have been hit hardest.
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    Nicole and Ben Veum, with their little boy, Adrian. Nicole was in recovery from opioid addiction when she gave birth to Adrian, and she worried the fentanyl in her epidural would lead to relapse, but it didn't.
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    Childbirth In The Age Of Addiction: New Mom Worries About Maintaining Her Sobriety

    Nov 10, 2018
    Pain medications commonly used in labor present medical and mental challenges for pregnant women recovering from opioid addiction.
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