Nearly a year after a sweeping opioid settlement imposed new requirements on the companies that provide medications to pharmacies, patients across the United States are having difficulty obtaining drugs to…
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Asthma, cancer, erectile drugs sent from abroad make up are most confiscations, despite opioid claims
For years, the FDA has defended its efforts to intercept prescription drugs coming from abroad by mail as necessary to keep out dangerous opioids, including fentanyl. The pharmaceutical industry frequently…
More Doctors Can Now Prescribe Buprenorphine to Opioid Users. Will It Help?
BALTIMORE — Buprenorphine, a medication to treat opioid addiction, has quietly stabilized Randall Lambert’s drug use over the past 15 years, even as chaos surrounded him. He cycled in and…
Opioid Distributors Cleared of Liability to Georgia Families Ravaged by Addiction
The Georgia law says that relatives of drug users can sue for harms they endured from the “individual drug abusers.” Even so, defense lawyers for the distributors often turned the case…
Tracking the opioid crisis: Inside the DEA’s secret lab
Watch CNN Films’ “American Pain” at 9 p.m. ET Sunday, February 5. CNN — Sitting among the warehouses of Dulles, Virginia, is one of the US Drug Enforcement Administration’s forensic…
Justice Dept. Sues AmerisourceBergen Over Role in Opioid Crisis
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Thursday against AmerisourceBergen, one of the country’s largest pharmaceutical distributors, accusing the company of knowingly distributing opioids that were later resold illegally. The…
Justice Department sues pharmaceutical company for failing to report suspicious opioid sales
Washington CNN — The Justice Department on Thursday alleged that the AmerisourceBergen Corporation, one of the country’s largest pharmaceutical distributors, and two of its subsidiaries failed to report hundreds of…
Opioid prescribing guidelines: CDC updates with new recommendations on tapering or continuing prescriptions
CNN — For the first time since 2016, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidelines for clinicians and patients on the use of prescription opioids…
Allergan Reaches Tentative $2.37 Billion Deal to Settle Opioid Suits
A bipartisan group of state attorneys general announced Friday morning that it had struck an agreement in principle with the pharmaceutical company Allergan for $2.37 billion to resolve more than…
McKinsey Guided Companies at the Center of the Opioid Crisis
In 2017, less than two years later, the F.D.A. took the rare step of demanding that Endo pull Opana from the market, citing the grave public health consequences of its…