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FORT PIERCE, Fla. – The St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office and multiple federal agencies held a news conference Friday morning to announced the results of a seven-month drug investigation, Officials said they investigated heroin and fentanyl dealers, which resulted in more than 40 arrests. St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara singled out four people as […]

By Alice Park How do you confront an epidemic that has claimed more lives than the HIV/AIDS crisis at its peak? How do you counteract a system that incentivizes the flow of prescription painkillers from doctors to patients and ends up getting 3 million Americans addicted each year? And how do you reverse surging demand

President Trump on Thursday decried the opioid epidemic ravaging America as a “national shame” and “human tragedy,” but one the U.S. will “overcome,” as he declared the crisis a national public health emergency. “Working together, we will defeat this opioid epidemic,” Mr. Trump said Thursday, with first lady Melania Trump at his side. “It will

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, September 26, 2017 (Newswire.com) – ​The mental health watchdog group Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) International warned that a drug being used to treat the opioid crisis in the United States could be like “switching seats on the Titanic.” A powerful psychoactive prescription drug, buprenorphine-naloxone, described as the gold standard treatment

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — With the opioid crisis intensifying and dozens of Americans dying of drug overdoses each day, President Trump plans to hold “a major briefing” on the issue with top administration officials at his private golf club on Tuesday afternoon. A White House spokesman described the briefing as simply “an update on the opioid

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will unveil this week a major crackdown on healthcare fraud involving opioid treatment programs, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The Justice Department enforcement action will target hundreds of people nationwide who run drug addiction treatment centers and who have filed