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Are Pharmaceutical Companies to Blame for the Opioid Epidemic? Recent lawsuits are asking courts whether the current crisis is comparable to the one over to***co in the ’90s.

Fentanyl Is So Deadly That It's Changing How First Responders Do Their Jobs The dangerous opioid is forcing police and forensic-lab workers to invent new ways to protect themselves.

Trump’s budget makes it official: he’s doing little to nothing about the opioid epidemic Candidate Trump talked a lot about the opioid crisis. President Trump may make it worse.

Of patients who reported completing their opioid therapy, as many as 85% said they had unused pills remaining, with an average of 30 remaining pills.

Among all patients in the study, 28% reported having 20 or more unused pills at the end of treatment, and 24% had 200 or more unused morphine equivalents.

Opioid Oversupply Common After Surgery Most patients have unused opioid pills after treatment of surgical pain, while few report awareness of proper storage or disposal practices.

Colorado’s naloxone success story inspires Sadly, anyone who spends time in downtown Denver knows that the scourge of he**in and opioid addiction is no stranger here. Overdoses killed 442 people in Colorado last year. And though Colorado ha…