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Opioids

April 2022

  • Protesters call for actions against Purdue Pharma in Boston on 25 January 2019.

    McKinsey denies illegally hiding work for opioid-maker Purdue Pharma while advising FDA

  • Women wearing hat in green shrubbery

    The woman who turned down her share of a $6bn settlement to fight the family behind the opioid crisis

March 2022

  • Plastic bags of Fentanyl are displayed on a table at the US Customs and Border Protection area at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.

    Five of seven people involved in Florida fentanyl-cocaine overdose are West Point cadets

    Six men and a woman were taken to hospitals on Thursday in an incident that highlights a two-year trend in suspected opioid overdoses

February 2022

  • A blue chalk outline of a body with the words "Eddie B We Miss You" in orange writing is seen non a sidewalk. Mock dollar bills and pill bottles are seen surrounding it.

    OxyContin victims fight for their share in Purdue bankruptcy case

  • A memorial in Huntington, West Virginia. Communities have been devastated by the opioid crisis, including in many parts of rural America.

    J&J and distributors to pay $26bn to settle claims they fuelled US opioid crisis

  • FILE -Cheryl Juaire, of Marlborough, Mass., center, leads a protest near the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., on Friday, April 12, 2019. A federal judge’s decision to reject a massive opioid settlement with Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma is a victory for those who want to hold the family that owns the company accountable for their role in the nation’s overdose epidemic. It also will delay the billions of dollars that would have gone to communities and addiction treatment centers across the country to address the ongoing toll of drug addiction.(AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)

    Purdue Pharma owners willing to pay up to $6bn to settle opioid suits

  • A DEA chemist pours 2,500 packs of confirmed fentanyl onto a counter for testing.

    ‘Historically tragic’: why are drug overdoses rising among Black and Indigenous Americans?

  • US could loosen some restrictions on prescribing opioids

  • Arresting Michael K Williams’ alleged drug dealers won’t solve the US addiction crisis

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  • New strategy urgently needed to tackle devastating opioids crisis, US told

  • I was shooting coke between chapters of Dostoevsky – but eventually books would save me from addiction

  • Opioid overdose deaths to ‘grow exponentially’ without action – study

  • Native American tribes reach $590m settlements over opioids devastation

January 2022

  • Two people sitting in booths as two people look on

    ‘It’s saved many lives’: first US overdose prevention centers give safe spaces to people in crisis

    Since the opening of the centers for those who struggle with substance abuse, at least 85 overdoses have been reversed without medical attention
  • man's hands hold framed photo

    ‘The deadliest drug we’ve ever known’: author Sam Quinones on how fentanyl saturated the US

    In his new book, Quinones investigates how the explosion of synthetic drugs spurred an ‘epidemic of addiction’
  • Members of company prepare on the flight deck of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.

    Brief letters
    A treasured letter to Uncle Bob in Malta

    Brief letters: Postal wonder | Corruption | Sacklers | Platinum pudding | Polar prayers

December 2021

  • Demonstrators Protest At Department Of Justice Against Sackler Family, Purdue Pharma, Washington, d.c., United States - 03 Dec 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (12630294ap) A bag containing Naloxone, a medicine that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose, is seen on the ground during a protest at the Department of Justice building in Washington, D.C. on December 3, 2021 Demonstrators Protest At Department Of Justice Against Sackler Family, Purdue Pharma, Washington, d.c., United States - 03 Dec 2021

    ‘We’re making harm reduction cool’: overdose reversal Narcan becomes a rave essential

  • US-DRUGS-FENTANYL-INTERNET-SNAPCHAT-PROTEST<br>Steve Filson (L), whose daughter Jessica Filson died in January 2020 of fentanyl poisoning, and Amy Neville (R), whose son Alexander Neville died in June 2020 at the age of 14 of fentanyl poisoning, march with family and friends to protest outside of the Snap, Inc. headquarters, makers of the Snapchat social media application, on June 4, 2021 in Santa Monica, California. - The coalition of family members and groups including Alexander Neville Foundation, APALD, and Drug Induced Homicide, advocate for greater parental controls on the Snapchat app, countermeasures to block the sale of illegal drugs, assistance with law enforcement investigations into drug dealers, and to raise awareness about counterfeit drugs and pills that contain unregulated and deadly amounts of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

    Killed by a pill bought on social media: the counterfeit drugs poisoning US teens

  • U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at a press conference at the Fairmont Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia December 14, 2021. Olivier Douliery/Pool via REUTERS

    US sanctions Chinese drugmakers amid addiction epidemic

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Don’t strip the Sackler name from museums. It’s a visceral reminder of human greed

    Arwa Mahdawi
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