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Drug overdoses soar in 2016, fueled by fentanyl
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Drug overdoses soar in 2016, fueled by fentanyl

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FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. With an overdose epidemic worsening, nearly one-third of Medicare beneficiaries received at least one prescription for commonly abused opioids such as OxyContin and fentanyl in 2015.
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Democrats call for opioid crisis to be treated like AIDS epidemic

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A naloxone nasal injector is demonstrated during a news conference. It is becoming easier for friends and family of heroin users or patients abusing strong prescription painkillers to get access to naloxone, a powerful, life-saving antidote, as state lawmakers loosen restrictions on the medicine to fight a growing epidemic.
Healthcare

Medicaid-covered opioid abuse treatments skyrocket

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First lady Melania Trump listens during a roundtable on cyberbullying in the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Washington.
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Melania Trump encourages people to visit ‘powerful’ opioid memorial exhibit next month

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The amount of opioids prescribed in 2015 was enough for every American to be medicated around the clock for three weeks. (AP Photo/Chris Post)
Economy

Opioid crisis caused almost 1 million to be absent from workforce, cost $700 billion: Study

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The death penalty for drug dealers won’t solve the opioid crisis, but the right to try weed might
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The death penalty for drug dealers won’t solve the opioid crisis, but the right to try weed might

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Some of the 22,000 pills with faces carved into them in a memorial by the National Safety Council have a name under it at the University of Pittsburgh. The names can be entered into an accompanying web page where a visitor can learn the story of that person. The exhibit featuring the wall with the carved medicine pills, each representing the face of someone who fatally overdosed, was launched in Chicago in November 2017.
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White House to host opioid memorial

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Five companies are named in the lawsuit, which says drugmakers engaged in fraudulent marketing and downplayed the addictive effects of prescription painkillers. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
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DEA deploys 250 additional officers to fight nationwide opioid epidemic

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This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. Abuse of painkillers, heroin, fentanyl and other opioids across the country has resulted in tens of thousands of children being taken from their homes and placed in the foster care system.
Healthcare

Dentists urged to prescribe fewer opioids for tooth pain

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This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. Abuse of painkillers, heroin, fentanyl and other opioids across the country has resulted in tens of thousands of children being taken from their homes and placed in the foster care system.
National Security

Customs officials using new technology to hunt down imported drugs

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