The White House Isn’t Declaring Opioids a National Emergency
The number of Americans who have died of opioid overdoses has grown every year since 2002.
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What Would Happen If Trump Declared the Opioid Epidemic a National Emergency?
National-emergency laws were designed to help America deal with hurricanes. Will they work against addiction?
Department of Justice to Send 12 Federal Prosecutors After Pill Mills
The unit will use data on doctors' prescribing patterns and pharmacies' dispensing to detect hot spots.
Trump’s Opioid Commission Calls on Trump to Declare Opioid Epidemic a National Emergency
The last time officials declared a nationwide public health emergency in the United States was in 2009, for the H1N1 flu outbreak.
How Many Government Reports About Drugs Do We Really Need?
In the past two years, government agencies have produced at least four reports about drug use in America, totaling more than 800 pages. Have they done any good?
America Set Seven Big Drug-Control Goals in 2010. It Failed All of Them.
Researchers point to the opioid epidemic as a major reason for the policy setback.
Three Generations of Opioid Addiction
Inside one family's decades-long struggle with opioids in Jamestown, New York.
The FDA Needs to Come Down Harder on Opioids, an FDA-Commissioned Panel Says
An independent panel of scientists make a case for "opioid exceptionalism."
America’s Doctors Are Prescribing Fewer Opioids, but Still Three Times as Many as 18 Years Ago
Progress against overprescribing is real, but spotty.