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Rhode Island Prisons Push To Get Inmates The Best Treatment For Opioid Addiction
by Ari Shapiro November 19, 2018Enlarge this image A view inside Rhode Island’s John J. Moran Medium Security Prison, in Cranston. Rhode Island is the only state…
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Enlarge this image Andy Baker/Ikon Images/Getty Images Andy Baker/Ikon Images/Getty Images When President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency,…
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Doctor Who Wrote 1980 Letter On Painkillers Regrets That It Fed The Opioid Crisis
by NPR June 16, 2017Enlarge this image A 1980 letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine was later widely cited as evidence that long-term…
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A Drugmaker Tries To Cash In On The Opioid Epidemic, One State Law At A Time
by NPR June 12, 2017Enlarge this image Kim Ryu for NPR Kim Ryu for NPR Two years ago, a mental health advocate named Steve McCaffrey stood…
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Enlarge this image Opana ER, a potent extended-release opioid, was approved by the FDA for pain management in 2006. But the agency…
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Enlarge this image Allyson and Eddie, clients at the AAC Needle Exchange and Overdose Prevention Program in Cambridge, Mass., say they carry…
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Former Drug Czar Says GOP Health Bill Would Cut Access To Addiction Treatment
by NPR March 15, 2017Enlarge this image Michael Botticelli, former director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing…