Walmart proposed a $3.1 billion legal settlement on Tuesday over the toll of powerful prescription opioids sold at its pharmacies, becoming the latest major drug industry player to promise major support to state, local and […]
U.S. regulators on Friday approved the first high-dose nasal spray for reversing opioid overdoses. The Food and Drug Administration approved Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ Kloxxado, a spray containing 8 milligrams of naloxone — double the highest dose […]
RALEIGH — The N.C. Department of Justice joined in whistleblower litigation led by the U.S. Department of Justice accusing Insys Therapeutics of trying to generate more profit by paying kickbacks to doctors to prescribe powerful […]
Concord — On Tuesday, Serenity House in Concord outside of Charlotte opened its doors to policymakers to discuss ways to tackle opioid addiction. In a roundtable with local leaders, Congressman Richard Hudson (NC-08) heard from […]
BOSTON, MA – The billionaire founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc was arrested on Thursday on charges that he participated in a scheme with other executives to bribe doctors to prescribe a fentanyl-based cancer pain drug […]
ASHEVILLE — Nineteen health care workers have been charged in Buncombe County with a total of 61 felonies, including trafficking $72,000 in opium or heroin. The arrests come after a six-month anti-opioid abuse project called […]
DURHAM — As the opioid drug crisis escalates in North Carolina and state and national leaders across the nation scramble to combat the growing epidemic, anesthesiologists at Duke University and other leading health institutes are […]
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK (Reuters Health) — While policymakers continue to block supervised injection sites in the U.S., a anonymous nonprofit secretly opened an unlicensed five-booth facility in an undisclosed location where visitors shoot up heroin […]
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