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NORMAN, Okla.— A judge Monday found Johnson & Johnson responsible for fueling Oklahoma’s opioid crisis, ordering the health care company to pay $572 million to redress the devastation wrought by the epidemic on the state and its residents. Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman’s landmark decision is the first to hold a drugmaker culpable for …

Surgeons are starting to reduce their opioid prescribing habits a little. But they still prescribe a lot of pain pills in the midst of an opioid addiction crisis. Westend61/Getty Images/Westend61 hide caption toggle caption Westend61/Getty Images/Westend61 Surgeons are starting to reduce their opioid prescribing habits a little. But they still prescribe a lot of pain …

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded more than $4.5 million in grant funding to 27 health centers in Oregon, nine in Oregon’s Second District and two in Central Oregon, to help fight the opioid epidemic. Health centers in Boardman, Klamath Falls, Medford, La Pine, Prineville, Hood River, Grants Pass and Enterprise will receive …

LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. (WSAV) – The department of Health and Human Services announced this week the agency is awarding millions of dollars to community health centers nationwide. This is in an effort to combat the opioid crisis. Five of those centers will be in Savannah, Brunswick, Waycross, and Ludowici. They will receive $167,000 to help …

Demonstrators protest the Food and Drug Administration’s policies related to pharmaceutical opioids at a rally in front of the Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington in April. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) In May 2008, as the opioid epidemic was raging in America, a representative of the nation’s largest manufacturer of opioid pain pills sent an …

Attorney General Mike Hunter begins closing statements during the opioid trial at the Cleveland County Courthouse in Norman, Okla. on Monday, July 15, 2019. It was the first public trial to emerge from roughly 2,000 U.S. lawsuits aimed at holding drug companies accountable for the nation’s opioid epidemic. Chris Landsberger/The Oklahoman hide caption toggle caption …

FILE – In this Aug. 17, 2018 file photo, family and friends who lost loved ones to opioid overdoses protest outside the headquarters of Purdue Pharma, maker of the maker of painkiller OxyContin, in Stamford, Conn. The World Health Organization notified U.S. lawmakers Wednesday, June 19, 2019, that it will discontinue two publications on opioid …

During the hour-long “Battling the Opioid Crisis with Help from the Cloud” panel at the Amazon Web Services Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, 130 people across the country died from an opioid overdose. That’s according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics. At nearly 50,000 annually, …