On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” CNN Commentator and former Obama adviser Van Jones argued President Trump doesn’t want to solve the opioid crisis and merely wants to “demagogue” about the issue. Jones said, “[T]his is one of the things that
Former National Public Radio CEO Ken Stern joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about his new book Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right.
“As Americans, we cannot allow this to continue,” Trump said. “It is time to liberate our communities from this scourge of drug addiction. We can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic.”
First lady Melania Trump traveled to Huntington, West Virginia, on Tuesday to visit a drug treatment center specializing in helping infants suffering from neonatal abstinence syndrome after exposure to opioids while in their mother’s womb.
California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that sought to bring down opioid addiction rates in the state by creating a task force that would establish best practices on prescribing those types of drugs.
Attorneys for a county in East Texas announced Wednesday they filed a lawsuit in federal court against more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies for their alleged roles in the opioid painkiller epidemic gripping the state and the nation.
A U.S. district court judge sentenced a Texas man to serve 20 years in federal prison for his role in a large-scale fentanyl distribution ring where he sold up to 10 grams a day of a designer version of the dangerous synthetic opioid.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin discovered what they call a potentially powerful non-addictive painkiller that targets previously untapped receptors in the brain. Such a finding could offer a game-changing alternative for chronic pain sufferers dependent on dangerous prescription opioids.
The opioid crisis is growing in America, and it may be the reason many men are dropping and staying out of the workforce, according to a new study.
President Donald Trump announced that he planned to declare the national opioid crisis a “state of emergency,” allowing the release of federal funds to help combat the alarming rate of overdose deaths and addictions. “I’m saying officially right now it
United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price announced the “largest health care fraud takedown operation in American history” on Thursday in which hundreds of individuals nationwide were indicted for their alleged roles in bilking U.S. taxpayers out of $1.3 billion by filing false Medicare claims. One in four of these cases involved opioid-related crimes.
Four hundred and twelve people, including 56 doctors, have been arrested in “the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price announced Thursday.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions addressed the 30th DARE Training Conference in Dallas, Texas Tuesday, devoting much of his speech to the skyrocketing level of drug overdoses in America.
