opioids

DOJ Sues CVS, Alleging “Massive Public Harm” From Opioid Dispensing

The Department of Justice is accusing CVS Pharmacy Inc. of unlawfully filling opioid prescriptions that directly led to overdose deaths,…

December 19, 2024

Baltimore’s $5.2 Billion Opioid Lawsuit Now in the Hands of One Judge

A Baltimore judge will soon decide the fate of a landmark opioid lawsuit. The beleaguered city hopes to obtain billions…

December 17, 2024

Pharmacists’ Opioid Decisions: From “Social Sorting” to Policing

[This article is excerpted from the book Policing Patients. You can read Filter’s interview with the author here.]   Pharmacists’…

December 12, 2024

How “Trojan Horse Technology” Turned Health Care Into Policing

Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis is a Swiss Army knife of a book.…

December 12, 2024

The Opioid Shuffle

Over my 21 years of using opioids I’ve often joked to myself that I don’t have a drug problem, I…

November 25, 2024

I Just Overdosed Again. This Time, It Was Different.

I’ve been using drugs—opioids, stimulants and many others—on and off for basically my whole adult life. I don’t see it…

September 26, 2024

National Cancer Institute Surveys Pain Patients’ Cannabis, Polysubstance Use

A federal government agency has published a wide-ranging series of scientific reports on marijuana and cancer as part of an…

September 23, 2024

BC Lawsuit Highlights Harms of Opioid Prescribing Crackdown

A lawsuit in British Columbia details how a regulatory body is allegedly “harassing” doctors into taking pain patients off their…

July 19, 2024

Purdue Backs Fraud Claim Against Sacklers, Amid Scramble for Immunity

In bankruptcy court on July 9, OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma secured an injunction to temporarily stave off lawsuits while it…

July 11, 2024

Europe Faces Potential Transformation of Its Drug Supply

In North America, fentanyl and other potent synthetic drugs in the supply have been associated with an unprecedented overdose crisis…

May 23, 2024