How the US Postal Service Became Entangled in the Opioid Epidemic

Fortune-Jan 25, 2018

There's little argument that opioids are overprescribed in the United States, but it can still be challenging for some Americans to get the medication after their prescriptions run out, especially with increased scrutiny of late. That has opened a gray market in China, where users can easily buy drugs like fentanyl online without ...

Probe: Chinese opioid sellers exploit US postal service flaw
WOODTV.com-Jan 25, 2018

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Drugs kill more Americans than guns and cars. Kentucky was ...

The Courier-Journal-Jan 28, 2018

Editor's note: More Americans die each year now from drug overdoses than from car crashes and gun homicides combined. Most of the overdoses come from opioids, which since ancient days have been relieving pain, providing pleasure and destroying lives. Today, opioid addiction has become the new American plague, ..

DEA To Target Opioid Over-Prescribers

Hartford Courant-6 hours ago

In Connecticut, the over prescribing of opioids in the past has helped fuel an epidemic of deadly opioid overdoses, as reported by politicians, medical professionals and law enforcement. The state in recent years has taken steps to stymie those prescriptions, capping them to seven days in most cases. In a national effort last ...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks on the fight against the ...
fox4kc.com-Jan 29, 2018

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House panel to begin hearings on bills to fight opioid crisis

The Hill-2 hours ago

The House Energy and Commerce Committee announced Tuesday that it will begin holding legislative hearings on measures to fight the opioid crisis the week of Feb. 26, a step forward in addressing the epidemic. The panel said that there will be multiple hearings to consider legislation aimed at fighting opioid abuse, ...

The Opioid Epidemic: Costs, Causes, and Efforts to Fight It

American Action Forum (press release) (blog)-4 hours ago

While President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency in late October 2017, it is an issue that has been ravaging American families for decades. The opioid epidemic has now claimed more American lives than the AIDS epidemic at its peak in the mid-1990s, yet unlike the AIDS epidemic, the opioid ...