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Inundating Small Towns With Opioids

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

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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.

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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.

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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.