Federal prosecutors are examining the consulting company’s role in helping “turbocharge” the sale of painkillers like OxyContin.
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Before Dr. Bobby Mukkamala — an ear, nose, and throat specialist in Michigan — prescribed post-surgical opioids recently, he checked…
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Pain management is an inexact science; there is plenty of blame to go around for the abuse of such drugs.
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Even when her pancreatic cancer began to invade her spine in the summer of 2021, my mother-in-law maintained an image…
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For many years I’ve written about people suffering intractable pain, and how their agony and increased risk of suicide and…
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Dr. Nic Helmstetter crab-walked down a steep, rain-slicked trail into a grove of maple and cottonwood trees to his destination:…
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It’s lowering American life expectancy and influencing the nation’s politics.
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In return for the shield, the billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma are committed to paying up to $6 billion to…
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PHILADELPHIA — Over a matter of weeks, Tracey McCann watched in horror as the bruises she was accustomed to getting…
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Anne Fuqua keeps a list of suicide deaths. She’s chronicled hundreds of cases of chronic pain sufferers who have killed…
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