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A new, non-opioid pain drug is here. Getting it to patients could be agony.
After decades of research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals now has an approved pain medication. Can one of the world’s most powerful ...
State of Addiction: Tackling the growing, dangerous xylazine epidemic
Hearst Television's National Investigative Unit is learning more about a substance, not considered an opioid, being mixed ...
Canada appoints former Mountie as fentanyl czar to combat production of the dangerous opioid
Canada has named a former deputy commissioner with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the country’s fentanyl czar ...
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Vertex lays out plan to increase access and launch non-opioid pain reliever Journavx
For Vertex these days, it’s all about the launches of three new products—sickle cell disease gene therapy Casgevy, the ...
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US approves a new painkiller with less risk of addiction than opioids and equally potent
The suzetrigine, which only acts on pain neurons, is the first innovation in analgesia in the last 20 years. "It stands out ...
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After 70 years of service, the need for LICADD continues to grow amid local opioid crisis
LICADD has been addressing substance use for nearly 70 years, but that fight is not stopping, nor is it's intensity lessening ...
Two meds commonly prescribed together linked to higher risk of DEATH
People prescribed both opioid painkillers and benzodiazepines have a 71 percent increased chance of dying from any cause, a ...
How opioid deaths tripled in Philly over a decade, and what may be behind a recent downturn
After nearly a decade of almost year-over-year increases in overdose deaths, the tide may finally be turning in Philadelphia.
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Ontario’s Closure of Safe Consumption Sites Draws Criticism
The replacement of safe consumption sites with Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment Hubs is dangerous and lacks a ...
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Griffith’s HALT act, which would create stiffer penalties for illicit fentanyl traffickers, passes U. S. House
The bill’s full name is the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl (or HALT) Act. It means traffickers of fentanyl-related substances would face tougher prison sentences. Southwest Virginia ...
Former senior Mountie Kevin Brosseau appointed as Canada's fentanyl czar
The federal government appointed former Mountie Kevin Brosseau as Canada's new "fentanyl czar" on Tuesday — a role created in ...
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'Classify this city as an open cemetery': Horse tranquilizer leading to spike in overdoses
Here in Jefferson County, the concoction is leading to a recent overdose spike. After seeing its first case of fentanyl mixed with xylazine in 2019, the Jefferson County Coroner's Office handled 40 ...