Public Health

New Jersey Attorney General Christopher Porrino filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Purdue Pharma, alleging the drugmaker engaged in deceptive marketing campaigns from the late 1990s through 2007 to promote the widespread use of opioid pain medicines, including OxyContin.

President Donald Trump's opioid commission released its final report Wednesday, detailing additional recommendations on how the federal government can address the nation's ongoing opioid overdose crisis.

More than 50 percent of people who died of opioid overdoses in 10 states tested positive for fentanyl in the second half of 2016, according to the CDC's most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

McKesson sent a letter to the President Donald Trump's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, recommending the administration consider two specific actions to mitigate opioid misuse.

Officials with Cuyahoga County filed a lawsuit against multiple drugmakers, drug distributors and physicians for their alleged role in facilitating high rates of opioid overdoses in one of Ohio's most-populated counties.

Amid growing rates of opioid overdoses in 2012, Endo International pulled a version of its best-selling painkiller, Opana ER, from the market, categorizing the drug as dangerous and susceptible to abuse, according to a report from CNN.

Eric Hargan, acting secretary for HHS, formally declared the nation's ongoing opioid overdose crisis a public health emergency on behalf of the agency after President Donald Trump publicly directed HHS to do so Thursday.

After the President Donald Trump declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency Thursday, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, offered his support of the announcement.

Rarely does a day pass without a headline about opioid abuse and addiction. While safeguards like prescription guidelines and alternate pain remedies have been put into place, it’s still estimated that about 90 Americans lose their lives each day due…

President Donald Trump officially declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency Thursday.