The program will also educate and connect patients to local resources. The trust manages Georgia's share from a 2021 national settlement of several billion dollars from three pharmaceutical ...

In 2021, over 1.1 million seniors were diagnosed ... among adults aged 55 and older between 2022 and 2023. The opioid crisis does not discriminate by age, and seniors are increasingly at risk ...

In their 2016 New England Journal of Medicine article on opioids, Dr. Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and Dr. A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D., who served as ...

In their 2016 New England Journal of Medicine article on opioids, Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D., who served as deputy ...

But he died in February 2021, at age 51, after ingesting a drug ... the fast-acting drug that has fueled the national opioid crisis. Many also had a history of incarceration.

Purdue Pharma and the members of the Sackler family who own the company agreed in principle to pay a $7.4 billion settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits over their alleged role in the opioid ...

Sackler family, who owned pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, will no longer be in control of the company or permitted to sell opioids if the new settlement plan is approved ...

FROM 2021 TO 2023, OVERDOSES AMONG BLACK PEOPLE ... stations are now equipped with naloxone boxes to help combat the opioid crisis.That's thanks to funding from Vital Strategies and efforts ...