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Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $572 Million in Landmark Opioid Trial
Oklahoma pursued the first case against a drug manufacturer for the national public health disaster, and the ruling may point to what lies ahead in 2,000 more lawsuits.
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Seattle Has Figured Out How to End the War on Drugs
While other cities are jailing drug users, Seattle has found another way.
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American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Addressing the Nation’s Opioid Epidemic: Lessons from an Unsanctioned Supervised Injection Site in the U.S.
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Overdose Prevention Sites (OPS) fact sheets
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The Philadelphia Resilience Project
In October 2018, Mayor Jim Kenney signed an executive order to combat the opioid crisis. This order activated 35 City offices for a joint emergency response to the epidemic.
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The Addictionary
The words we use matter. Caution needs to be taken, especially when the disorders concerned are heavily stigmatized as in substance use disorders.
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The Treatment Gap
Articles in this New York Times series are exploring the lack of access to effective opioid addiction treatment in America.
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Five common misconceptions about Philly’s ‘safe-injection site’ (aka CUES)
Written by Michaela Winberg for Billy Penn, 1/31/2018.
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Trapped by the Walmart of Heroin, The New York Times Magazine, 10/10/2018.
Written by Jennifer Percy
Photography by Jeffrey Stockbridge
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Faces of an Epidemic, The New Yorker, 10/30/2017
Written by Margaret Talbot
Photography by Philip Montgomery
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The Addicts Next Door, The New Yorker, 6/5/2017.
Written by Margaret Talbot
Photography by Eugene Richards
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On Being Addicted to Heroin, News Works, WHYY, 7/11/2017
Written by Eugene Dermit
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Inside A Notorious Drug Market Before It Gets Shut Down, TIME, 7/27/2017
Written by Courtenay Harris Bond
Photographs by Jeffrey Stockbridge
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