#Opioid

Author: William K. Rashbaum / Source: New York Times Mustafa Hussain for The New York Times [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] For the first time, a major pharmaceutical distributor is facing federal criminal charges over its role in the opioid crisis

Author: Maria Temming / Source: Science News Synthetic opioids outlast current antidotes. A nanoparticle-based alternative could fix that. A newly developed single-dose opioid antidote lasts several days, a study in mice shows. If the results can be duplicated in humans, the treatment may one

Source: TMZ … ‘Chris’s Death Was Not Inevitable’ Chris Cornell‘s widow is speaking out about the opioid crisis in America and sharing her firsthand knowledge about the impact addiction has on families. Vicky Cornell was on Capitol Hill Monday to share her personal story of her husband’s tragic

Author: Ed Silverman / Source: STAT s efforts intensify to blunt the ongoing opioid crisis, a new study finds that increased marketing of the addictive painkillers to physicians resulted in more prescribing and, subsequently, more deaths from overdose. Interestingly, industry influence over

Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think Each American has about a 1 in 7,569 chance of dying from an opioid overdose, according to a National Safety Council report. The probability of dying in a motor vehicle accident is 1 in 8,096. The death rate for opioids is now six times higher than it