Legal maneuverings followed a Supreme Court ruling last month that denied the Sackler family immunity from liability over its role…
Opioid
Federal prosecutors are examining the consulting company’s role in helping “turbocharge” the sale of painkillers like OxyContin.
Before Dr. Bobby Mukkamala — an ear, nose, and throat specialist in Michigan — prescribed post-surgical opioids recently, he checked…
Pain management is an inexact science; there is plenty of blame to go around for the abuse of such drugs.
Even when her pancreatic cancer began to invade her spine in the summer of 2021, my mother-in-law maintained an image…
For many years I’ve written about people suffering intractable pain, and how their agony and increased risk of suicide and…
Dr. Nic Helmstetter crab-walked down a steep, rain-slicked trail into a grove of maple and cottonwood trees to his destination:…
It’s lowering American life expectancy and influencing the nation’s politics.
In return for the shield, the billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma are committed to paying up to $6 billion to…
PHILADELPHIA — Over a matter of weeks, Tracey McCann watched in horror as the bruises she was accustomed to getting…
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