Former Walmart Pharmacists Say Company Ignored Red Flags As Opioid Sales Boomed The giant retailer shipped billions of opioid pills to pharmacies nationwide. An NPR investigation found employees warned company executives their stores were being used by "pill mill" doctors.
Walmart Is Latest Big-Name Company Embroiled In Opioid Crisis The Justice Department says the retailer ignored red flags for years, filling suspicious prescriptions for opioids and contributing to America's deadly addiction crisis. Walmart denies wrongdoing.
Doctors And Dentists Still Flooding U.S. With Opioid Prescriptions Forty Americans die every day from overdoses linked to prescription opioids, but researchers say many doctors and dentists still have a "prescribe and forget" attitude toward the medications.
Changes In Opioid Supply Create New Risks As Stay-At-Home Rules Ease The disruption in the illegal opioid trade had varying impacts around the country. As stay-at-home orders lift, that creates different risks of overdose that public health is trying to manage.
Sacklers Withdrew Nearly $11 Billion From Purdue As Opioid Crisis Mounted According to a court filing Monday, the family pulled about $10.7 billion from Purdue since 2008 — ramping up withdrawals even after executives pleaded guilty to misleading regulators about OxyContin.
Major League Baseball Drops Marijuana, Adds Opioids, Cocaine To 'Drugs Of Abuse' List The changes follow the death of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs, who was found with opioids and alcohol in his system.
All Things Considered In The Fight For Money For The Opioid Crisis, Will The Youngest Victims Be Left Out? The opioid epidemic is intergenerational, with tens of thousands of babies born every year dependent on opioids. Advocates worry lawsuits against the drug industry might overlook these children.
Oklahoma Judge Shaves $107 Million Off Opioid Decision Against Johnson & Johnson The new number from Judge Thad Balkman comes nearly three months after he ordered the drugmaker to pay $572 million for its role in the opioid crisis. Both sides had questioned that sum.
The Opium Cycle There is a pattern that has repeated itself throughout the history of the opium trade.
KUOW Newsroom Report: Giving naloxone to cops saves lives in Washington Twenty-one people are likely alive today because police officers in Thurston County were armed with a drug overdose reversal medicine, according to a new report by a University of Washington professor of public health.
