Enlarge this image In 2016, Donald Trump captured 68 percent of the vote in West Virginia, a state hit hard by opioid…
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Enlarge this image Surgeon General Jerome Adams is recommending that more Americans be prepared to save people from opioid overdoses. Chip Somodevilla/Getty…
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Enlarge this image Researchers looked at states with medical marijuana dispensaries and those that allow home cultivation. Evelyn Hockstein/The Washington Post/Getty Images…
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Enlarge this image Mady Ohlman, who lives near Boston and has been sober for more than four years, says many drug users…
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Enlarge this image Emergency rooms are seeing a jump in opioid overdoses. Timely treatment with naloxone can reverse the effects of opioids.…
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States Seek More Federal Funding For Opioid Treatment, Not More Promises
by Penci March 1, 2018Enlarge this image Colorado State Rep. Brittany Pettersen (right) is advocating for more treatment money for opioid addiction, in part because of…
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Enlarge this image Ashley Copeland (right) talks to her mom Sue Iverson in the Swedish Medical Center emergency department, near Denver. Copeland…
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Doctors In Maine Say Halt In OxyContin Marketing Comes ’20 Years Late’
by Patty Wight February 13, 2018Enlarge this image Bottles of Purdue Pharma L.P. OxyContin medication sit on a pharmacy shelf in Provo, Utah, in 2016. George Frey/Bloomberg…