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Millions of dollars are expected to be paid out to Central Florida counties after lawsuit settlements were reached with Walmart, Walgreens and CVS regarding the opioid crisis.

Orlando Sentinel - 4 days ago

Sterling Elliott: As Illinois deals with opioid crisis, Congress can help expand pain management alternatives

Chicago Tribune - 5 days ago

Dozens arrested in crackdown on 'super cartel' that flooded Europe with cocaine

New York Daily News - 5 days ago

Police take down 'super cartel' dealing one-third of Europe's cocaine trade - video -- Record amounts of cocaine are being seized in Europe. Its availability on the continent has...

Daily Express - 6 days ago

Scientists modify a tobacco plant to produce COCAINE in its leaves

Daily Mail - 6 days ago

Baja California trafficking ring moved meth, fentanyl, cocaine throughout U.S., prosecutors say

The San Diego Union-Tribune - 9 days ago

Major pharmacy companies agree to settle in nationwide opioid cases

The Week - 1 month ago

CVS Health, Walgreen Co. to Pay About $5B Each in Opioid Settlement

Opioids, the powerful and addictive class of both prescription and illegal drugs, have been the cause for more than 500,000 overdose deaths over the past two decades including more than 80,000 in 2021 alone, CNN reported.

Inside Edition - 1 month ago

CVS Health agrees to $5 billion settlement of opioid lawsuits

In the lawsuits, governments said pharmacies were filling prescriptions that they should have flagged as inappropriate.

Chicago Tribune - 1 month ago

Fatal drug overdoses dropped in the first half of the year around Maryland, including in Baltimore and five surrounding counties, reversing some of the jump during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, but they remain a huge problem, state officials told treatment providers and policy makers gathered this week in Baltimore.

The Baltimore Sun - 1 month ago

'We're not monsters': Man credits Seminole center's 'understanding' with opioid recovery

Orlando Sentinel - 1 month ago

Israeli drug maker Teva fueled opioid addiction in New York, jury finds

YNET News - 1 month ago

Israel's Teva reaches opioid settlement in San Francisco

YNET News - 1 month ago

How Albanian gangs took control of Britain's cocaine

Telegraph UK - 2 months ago

Israeli pharma Teva Pharm expects to start paying U.S. opioid settlement in 2023

YNET News - 2 months ago

A shipment of baby wipes turns out to be $11.8 million worth of cocaine

NPR - 3 months ago

Inside Purdue Pharma’s Media Playbook: How It Planted the Opioid “Anti-Story”

OxyContin’s makers delayed the reckoning for their role in the opioid crisis by funding think tanks, placing friendly experts on leading outlets, and deterring or challenging negative coverage.

ProPublica - 6 months ago

New Documents Show How Drug Companies Targeted Doctors to Increase Opioid Prescriptions

A trove of documents published as part of a legal settlement offers an unvarnished look inside the financial relationships between pharmaceutical companies and the medical community — from the perspective of drug companies themselves.

ProPublica - 6 months ago

I've seen the ruined lives behind the cocaine habits of the dinner party set who love to brag about their ethical values, writes HARRIET SERGEANT

Daily Mail - 9 months ago

Heroin addict babies, leeches, dodgy spivs? Come on, nurse - it's meant to be Christmas!

Daily Mail - 9 months ago

4 Olympic Games staffers from U.S. and U.K. arrested for using cocaine

Tokyo Reporter - 11 months ago

We Are Releasing the Full Video of Richard Sackler's Testimony About Purdue Pharma and the Opioid Crisis

ProPublica - 1 year ago

Opioid Overdoses Keep Surging in Chicago, Killing Black People on the West Side

ProPublica - 2 years ago

Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers