Indiana expanded its Medicaid program in 2015 with a number of conservative policy caveats. Three years later, newly available state-level data provides insight into the possible influence of such policies, according to a Kaiser Health News report.
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Nineteen Democratic senators called on the Government Accountability Office to investigate the Trump administration's response to the nation's opioid crisis, according to a letter obtained by Vox.
The city of Baltimore filed a lawsuit Wednesday against drug manufacturers and distributors, as well as a local clinic, in an effort to curb the opioid epidemic, according to The Baltimore Sun.
Attorneys on behalf of Huerfano County filed a lawsuit Sunday against drugmakers and distributors for allegedly contributing to the county's opioid crisis, marking the first such lawsuit filed by a local government in Colorado, according to a report from The…
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, said Tuesday the agency sent letters to manufacturers of the diarrhea medication loperamide — known by the brand name Imodium — requesting the over-the-counter medication be repackaged to reduce the risk of overdose.
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From 2006 to 2016, drug distributors shipped 20,827,260 hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to two pharmacies in Williamson, W. Va., according to an investigation conducted by U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee.
A New Jersey Superior Court Judge last week sentenced two men for possessing nearly 100 pounds of fentanyl, amounting to more than 18 million lethal doses of the extremely potent synthetic opioid.
Illinois maintained the highest percentage of individuals sick with influenza last week, followed by Missouri and Wisconsin, respectively, according to recent data released by Kinsa Insights.
A Mississippi waiver request to impose work requirements on Medicaid enrollees recently opened for federal comment, according to The Hill.
United States residents purchased nearly $800 million worth of fentanyl pills from China over the internet in two years, according to a Senate investigations report released Wednesday.