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First-Ever Criminal Charges Filed Against Drug Company Executives Over Opioid Crisis

New York company to pay $20 million in penalties; two executives facing life in prison over charges of intentionally trafficking in millions of pain pills and defrauding the DEA.

DRUGS

Inundating Small Towns With Opioids

In a single year, from 2008 to 2009, Miami-Luken’s shipments of opioid pills to Williamson increased threefold.

DRUGS

Post Office and State Department Blamed for Opioids in the Mail

Senators condemn the drug trade, but have put the Postal Service in their sights because they have jurisdiction over it.

DRUGS

Navigating the Pill Factory

On January 1, Nevada’s new Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Act (AB-474) kicked in, and already doctors in the state are complaining.

DRUGS

New Lawsuit Could Open the Floodgates on the Sackler Family

In perhaps the most horrifying statistic of this 21st century, nearly 200,000 people have died from prescription opioid overdoses since 2000.

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DRUGS

The Opioid Dossier

“The Opioid Dossier” chronicles a yearlong investigation by Associate Editor Michael Brennan into a deadly drug epidemic—spawned by America’s pharmaceutical industry. His in-depth report follows.

THE OPIOID DOSSIER

Almost Heaven, Almost Hell

In West Virginia’s natural paradise pain pills paved a road to perdition.

THE OPIOID DOSSIER

Lawyer

A Southern lawyer tells how we got here, and how he hopes to use a forgotten state law to rescue the country from the opioid epidemic.