A Chapel Hill company is developing an injectable drug to cut down on deadly overdoses after more than 4,000 people in North Carolina died last year from fentanyl. Fentanyl is the number one killer of Americans ages 18 to 45, with opioids producing the worst drug crisis in the history of the...
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STARTUP SPOTLIGHT: The founders of opiAID are dedicated to improving the lives of people with opioid use disorder (OUD). Now they have more money for that mission.
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DisposeRx, which provides medication disposal packets to nearly half of US retail pharmacies and some 90 percent of pharmacy wholesale and medical distributors, now has a patent on the FDA approved technology.
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The nation’s three biggest drug distributors and a major drugmaker reached an 11th-hour, $260 million settlement Monday over the toll of the opioids in two Ohio counties, averting what would have been the first federal trial over the crisis. But states- including North Carolina – plan to move ahead with their own suit.
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The case is about the conduct of a group of companies in two Ohio counties, but far more than that is riding on the first federal trial on the opioid crisis, expected to open Monday in Cleveland. And North Carolina is a key player in the trial after talks to settle with the drug firms for $48 billion fell apart on Friday.
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Six drug companies accused in thousands of lawsuits over their role in the nation’s opioid epidemic failed to reach a settlement with governments across the country – including the attorney general of North Carolina – setting the stage for a high-profile trial Monday.
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Research teams from Duke received more than $24 million in federal grants to address challenges related to pain and the opioid crisis through the NIH’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative.
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Google is pitching in to help fight the nation’s opioid crisis by helping people find drug disposal locations via Google Maps.
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A controversial tool has emerged in the fight against opioid overdose deaths. It’s a strip that allows people who use street drugs such as cocaine and heroin to test whether their drugs are laced with fentanyl.
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