Oxycontin
Walmart's Dumb New Opioid Policy Could Cost Lives
The retail giant is joining other big pharmacies in setting seven-day caps on new opioid scripts. This is extremely dangerous, and may end in death.
This OxyContin Salesman of the Year doesn’t regret his work
He also takes opioids to manage his own debilitating back pain.
Facebook Needs to Do More to Stop the Online Opioid Market, Says FDA Chief
Scott Gottlieb, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, called on social media sites and internet service providers to crack down on the online drug trade.
The Maker of OxyContin Is Funding Efforts to Fight Addiction: Is It ‘Blood Money’ or Charity?
Purdue Pharma, whose top-selling painkiller, OxyContin, helped fuel the opioid epidemic, now wants to help treat it—or at least salvage its own reputation.
Trump Thinks Executing Drug Dealers Will Stop the Opioid Epidemic
But doing so would likely make the drug problem worse.
Canadian doctors are writing more opioid prescriptions despite overdose crisis, study says
Researchers say the overprescription of opioids has contributed to the overdose crisis in Canada.
I Was a Teen Oxy Kingpin
Douglas Dodd had a fast rise as a serious player in the illegal painkiller scene in Florida. Then he got busted by the feds and tried to turn his life around.
'I Try Not to Judge': A Conversation With Louis Theroux
In ‘Heroin Town’, your favourite bumbling BBC host embeds with opioid addicts in West Virginia.
The Faces of Americans Who Died From Opioid Overdoses
This interactive map humanizes the opioid epidemic.
Another state sues OxyContin maker over the opioid epidemic
In a nearly 100-page-long complaint, New Hampshire's attorneys accuse Purdue Pharma of trivializing the risk of opioid addiction.