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He credits a new program that the counseling center started with opioid settlement ... programs that aim to stop people from developing substance use disorders. States committed, on average ...

Dozens of interviews, thousands of pages of documents, an array of public records requests, and outreach to all 50 states resulted ... such as denying people medications for opioid use disorder.

Here’s a look at the opioid crisis. Experts say the United States is in the throes of an opioid epidemic. An estimated 8.9 million Americans aged 12 and older misused opioids in 2023. Opioids are ...

Ohio and Maryland are tied for having the sixth highest rate of pain reliever misuse in the nation, with 3.57% of the population reporting abusing pain medication.

At its peak in 2012, Alabama had the highest rate of opioid prescription in the country with 143.8 prescriptions per 100 people.

An NBC News report chronicled Derek Scott’s yearslong struggle to receive his law license while he continued to take his ...

The suit alleges the two pharmacy benefit managers have "substantially contributed to a quadrupling of the number of prescription opioids sold annually in the United States and a tripling of the ...