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The Food and Drug Administration says abuse of the painkiller Opana ER has fueled an outbreak of HIV, hepatitis C and a serious blood disorder, though it was reformulated to try to reduce abuse.
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The state's attorney general filed the lawsuit Wednesday, alleging fraudulent marketing. "They knew they were wrong," Mike DeWine says, "but they did it anyway — and they continue to do it."
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Trump administration officials have been visiting parts of the country affected by the opioid addiction crisis, including the Ohio Valley region. The…
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Nearly 700 experts signed a letter to HHS Secretary Tom Price asking that he correct remarks in which he called medication-assisted treatment for addiction "substituting one opioid for another."
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People often turn to public restrooms as a place to get high on opioids. It has led some establishments to close their facilities, while others are training employees to help people who overdose.
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Max Baker got treatment for his opioid dependency and kicked the habit. He'd been clean for more than a year when a car accident and subsequent surgery returned him to addiction's spiral.
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Addiction treatment specialists in the Ohio Valley are closely watching Washington’s health care debate. The Affordable Care Act helped expand treatment…
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Kentucky is hoping to secure up to 10-million dollars in federal support to fight the opioid addiction epidemic.The federal government recently announced…
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Charlie Oen was addicted to heroin as a teenager. At 25, he's now clean and a peer counselor in Lima, Ohio, where he tries to help people who started using drugs before he was born.
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The federal government's top doctor has released a report detailing substance misuse in the U.S. and how it can be addressed. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy…