Five of the many companies accused in thousands of federal and state lawsuits over the nation’s opioid epidemic may settle for over $50 billion, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.
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The firm said physician practices struggling to comply with state government restrictions on opioid prescriptions now have an easy means of satisfying the requirements designed to prevent overdoses and drug misuse with its latest technology.
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Federal data released publicly for the first time this summer is providing more detail on the millions of prescription opioid pills that flooded the United States as the epidemic exploded nearly a decade ago. But in North Carolina, state public health officials have for years been putting data collected on the local level to work fighting the crisis.
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The judge presiding over the historic Oklahoma opioid trial will deliver his ruling Monday afternoon — a decision that could have sweeping implications as other states and communities try to hold pharmaceutical companies responsible for the opioid epidemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans since 2000.
Read MoreInstagram will start sending out help notices about opioid addiction to users who search certain hashtags.
Read MoreSouthern Pines-based startup DisposeRx has developed a novel product for neutralizing opioids. And retail giant Walmart has signed on to provide it to customers.
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