Report: America’s Overdose Deaths Are Falling
Nalaxone, better known by its brand name Narcan, can reverse opioid overdoes. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Drug overdose deaths have been on the rise for years, devastating communities nationwide. But as National Public Radio reported on Wednesday, that…
Why the Supreme Court Blew Up the Purdue Opioid Settlement
Signs in the shape of headstones, with information on people who died from using OxyContin, line a security fence outside the Supreme Court Monday, Dec. 4, 2023.Stephanie Scarbrough/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that members of the…
Will the Supreme Court Make the Sacklers Pay for the Opioid Crisis?
Allison Bailey/NurPhoto via Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Will the Sackler family finally begin paying out a multibillion settlement to cities, states, tribes, and individuals reeling from the opioid epidemic? The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Monday in a case that…
Remarkable Photos Show What Harm Reduction Actually Looks Like
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The numbers are now frighteningly familiar: Last year more than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses, bringing the total death toll to more than 1 million since the invention of OxyContin in 1996. By 2030 another million people are…
This Workplace Rule Could Have Blunted the Opioid Epidemic. Then Congress Killed It.
Robin Rayne/ Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This article was originally published by Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative news outlet. In January 2001, relief was in sight for hundreds of thousands of American workers with pinched nerves, herniated discs, carpal…
The Untold Story of Purdue Pharma’s Cozy Relationship With the American Medical Association
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The American Medical Association’s new training on pain management arrived in the midst of a burgeoning crisis. It was September 2007, and doctors were prescribing enough opioid painkillers each year for every American adult to have a…