Category Archives: In the News

Commentary: Opioid crisis continues to ravage US as Trump administration dithers

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/29/opioid-crisis-continues-to-ravage-us-in-trumps-first-year-commentary.html

CNBC – 1.29.2018

How Many Opioid Pills Do You Need After Surgery?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-many-opioid-pills-do-you-need-after-surgery-1517236483

Wall Street Journal – 1.29.2018

States curb pain pill prescribing to try to prevent opioid addiction

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/01/26/opioid-epidemic-states-curb-pain-pill-prescribing/825643001/

Cincinnati Enquirer – 1.26.2018

How to fight the opioid epidemic

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/01/22/how-fight-opioid-epidemic/2qsau8XNwFz5WRfMguE0XJ/story.html?platform=hootsuite

Boston Globe – 1.22.2018

Opioid Special Master: ‘This Litigation is a Multilevel Chess Game.’

https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/sites/nationallawjournal/2018/01/19/opioid-special-master-this-litigation-is-a-multilevel-chess-game/?slreturn=20180102125425

National Law Journal – 1.19.2018

THIRTEEN: understanding the relationship between prescription drugs, heroin

http://www.thirteen.org/programs/understanding-the-opioid-epidemic/relationship-between-opioids-and-heroin-epeq5z/#.WlfNfRxeP6k.twitter

THIRTEEN – 1.19.2018

PBS premieres ‘Understanding the Opioid Epidemic’ on Jan. 17

http://www.pbs.org/wned/opioid-epidemic/home/

PBS – 1.17.2018

St. Paul police officer turned a traffic stop into an overdose rescue

https://www.twincities.com/2018/01/17/st-paul-police-officer-turned-a-traffic-stop-into-an-overdose-rescue/?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook

St. Paul Pioneer Press – 1.17.2018

Walmart Plans to Offer a Product to Curb Opioid Abuse

http://time.com/5106662/walmart-opioid-abuse/

Time – 1.17.2018

NYT: Help Shape The Times’s Opioid Coverage

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/us/opioid-heroin-fentanyl-survey.html

New York Times – 1.12.2018