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Top Drug & Alcohol News of the Week
Judge Approves $8.3 Billion Settlement With OxyContin Maker Purdue
Pharma
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Judge Approves $8.3 Billion Settlement With OxyContin Maker Purdue
Pharma
This week a federal bankruptcy judge authorized a settlement valued at
$8.3 billion between OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and the Department
of Justice, NPR reports. Read More
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Supervising Drug Consumption at Needle Exchange Program Would Save
Lives: Study
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Supervising Drug Consumption at Needle Exchange Program Would Save
Lives: Study
Supervising drug consumption at a needle exchange program in Boston
would save three to four lives a year, and more than $4 million,
according to a new report. Read More
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Fentanyl Deaths Increase in Western U.S.
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Fentanyl Deaths Increase in Western U.S.
A new study finds fentanyl deaths have increased in states west of the
Mississippi River, according to NPR. Read More
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Bipartisan Support for Marijuana Legalization Grows Across Country
A recent Gallup poll and the passage of state marijuana legalization
measures indicate that bipartisan support for legalization is growing,
AP reports. Read More
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New York Excise Tax Makes It Harder To Fill Opioid Prescriptions
After New York State implemented an excise tax on many opioids in July
2019, some patients have had difficulty filling opioid prescriptions,
Kaiser Health News reports. Read More
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Other Headlines of Interest
Listen now: David Sheff on parenting, perseverance and relapse (Heart
of the Matter with Elizabeth Vargas)
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Why Voters Are Rejecting The War On Drugs (WBUR)
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Opinion: Jail can make drug addiction worse. Oregon decriminalizing
hard drugs can break the cycle. (NBC News)
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I Got Addicted to Dark Web Opiates During Lockdown (Vice)
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How the pandemic got people smoking again (Vox)
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Opinion: Doctors need a full range of options to combat opioid crisis
(Tennessean)
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Opioid Deaths in Canada Were Falling, Then Came Coronavirus (The Wall
Street Journal)
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Psychedelics as health and wellness aid? Not a hallucination (NBC
News)
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Opinion: Next attorney general must embrace marijuana law reforms (The
Hill)
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Amid Research into Vaping, a Whiff of a Familiar Tactic Emerges
(Scientific American)
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Naloxone Should Be As Ubiquitous As Tylenol (Slate)
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Saying It Nicer: Why Language Matters For People With Addiction
(Forbes)
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The grief of losing my son and husband drove me to drug addiction (The
Guardian)
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