Category Archives: In the News

Kaleo Hikes Price Of Opioid Overdose Antidote Evzio From $690 To $4,500

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2017/01/31/kaleo-hikes-price-of-opioid-overdose-antidote-evzio-from-690-to-4500/2/#1753450f4a4d

FORBES – 01/31/2017

Citing Opioid Crisis, Obama’s Drug Czar Warns Against Repealing Affordable Care Act

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aca-opioid-epidemic_us_5889fdbfe4b0737fd5cba6b0

THE HUFFINGTON POST – 01/26/2017

Doctors Prescribed Me Pain Meds But Couldn’t Help Me Get Off Them

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/doctors-prescribed-me-pain-meds-but-offered-no-help-when-i-got-hooked/2017/01/20/d68a0f42-c171-11e6-9578-0054287507db_story.html?utm_term=.caac99baf986

THE WASHINGTON POST – 01/22/2017

New York City Sues Drug Companies Over Opioid Crisis

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/nyregion/nyc-de-blasio-opioid-lawsuit.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com

New York Times – 1.23.18

McKesson, nation’s largest drug distributor, to pay $150 million in fines in opioid settlement

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/01/18/mckesson-nations-largest-drug-distributor-to-pay-150-million-in-fines-in-opioid-settlement/?utm_term=.a5c45ec09729

THE WASHINGTON POST – 01/18/2017

Opioid epidemic continues in wrong direction, doc tells Montevideo crowd

http://www.wctrib.com/news/region/4199038-opioid-epidemic-continues-wrong-direction-doc-tells-montevideo-crowd

WEST CENTRAL TRIBUNE – 01/16/2017

Young Victims of the Opioid Epidemic

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/opinion/young-victims-of-the-opioid-epidemic.html?emc=eta1&_r=0

THE NEW YORK TIMES – 01/16/2016

Brother’s death leads Colorado software engineer to connect victims of opioid abuse through maps

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/01/15/colorado-opioid-deaths-maps/

THE DENVER POST – 01/15/2016

New state rules are forcing opioid prescribers to confront ‘doctor shopping’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/new-state-rules-are-forcing-opioid-prescribers-to-confront-doctor-shopping/2017/01/14/21e02e88-d68d-11e6-b8b2-cb5164beba6b_story.html?utm_term=.2c6bd0db19b9

THE WASHINGTON POST – 01/14/2016

How an ‘abuse-deterrent’ drug created the heroin epidemic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/01/10/how-an-abuse-deterrent-drug-created-the-heroin-epidemic/?utm_term=.fc82a9202909

THE WASHINGTON POST – 01/10/2016