Martha Bebinger, WBUR The dispatch call from the Concord, N.H., police department was brief. A woman returning to her truck spotted a man underneath. She confronted him. The man fled.…
Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News In 2016, news reports warned the public of an opioid epidemic gripping the nation. But Madeline Vaughn, then a lead clinical intake coordinator at…
Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio One of the nation’s largest insurers has announced it will no longer cover prescriptions for what was once a blockbuster pain reliever, at least in…
Martha Bebinger, WBUR It was Bea Duncan who answered the phone at 2 a.m. on a January morning. Her son Jeff had been caught using drugs in a New Hampshire…
Dear Editor: I am tired of hearing horror story after horror story about friends that have had their lives destroyed by drugs. This epidemic is out of control, people are…
By Tiffini Simoneaux PublicSource When I think of my dad, I think of the happy times we shared once he got clean — working on my little house together, walking…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new report shows doctors are issuing fewer opioid prescriptions. The state Department of Safety and Professional Services released a report Wednesday from the Controlled Substances…
By Emmarie Huetteman/Kaiser Health News Andrey Ostrovsky’s family did not discuss what killed his uncle. He was young, not quite two weeks past his 45th birthday, when he died, and…
By GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press The goal is impressive: Hammer out a legal deal that starts guiding the nation out of an epidemic of opioid addiction. How and when that…
