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Opioids crisis

July 2024

  • Donald Trump signs a plaque as he tours a section of the border wall in Alamo, Texas, on 12 January 2021.

    Donald Trump accused of falsely vilifying migrants for surge in US fentanyl deaths

    Former head of US border security says claim ‘terribly misleading’ and statistics show nine of 10 convicted traffickers are US citizens

June 2024

  • oxycontin pills

    US supreme court blocks Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement that would shield Sacklers from lawsuits

    Controversial deal would have protected billionaire family owners from further liability over US opioid epidemic

May 2024

  • Seth Numrich with his hand resting on the head of a giant puppet horse.

    Opioids the Opera: painkiller’s ‘lurid tale of greed’ inspires new production

  • A person holds a packaged NARCAN naloxone nasal spray

    More than 100,000 people in the US died of drug overdoses in 2023

April 2024

  • Close-up of naloxone held by person in hands

    Baby dies and two others hospitalized in fentanyl overdoses in Washington state

    Police sound alarm after 13-month-old dies in Everett near Seattle and two other babies taken to hospital in past week
  • McKinsey & Company logo in airport lounge

    McKinsey reportedly under US criminal investigation over opioid industry work

    Federal prosecutors looking at relationship with Purdue Pharma and other drug manufacturers, and its role in US opioid crisis
  • In this 25 April 1999 photo, Austin Eubanks hugs his girlfriend during a memorial service for Columbine high school shooting victims.

    Guns and lies
    A Columbine survivor’s tragic battle to reveal the ‘ripple effect’ of gun violence: trauma, addiction, suicide

    With 377 school shootings since Columbine, Americans are still reckoning with the real toll of these attacks

March 2024

  • Person covered with blanket walks across street

    Oregon undoes groundbreaking drug decriminalization law

    Measure 110, an experiment approved in 2020, gets overhauled as state grapples with fentanyl crisis and growing public drug use

February 2024

  • Man wearing yellow and black jacket holds a phone to his hear and looks at a notepad as a person in a red beanie looks at him

    How Oregon turned on its own trailblazing drug law: ‘Not the utopia we were promised’

    Three years ago, the state began a novel social experiment that put treatment over punishment – then came the backlash
  • Tablets

    Science Weekly
    Nitazenes and xylazine: what’s behind the rise of dangerous synthetic drugs? – podcast

    Social affairs correspondent Robert Booth tells Madeleine Finlay why a class of synthetic opioids called nitazenes, first developed in the 1950s, is leading to a worrying number of fatal overdoses in the UK. And she hears from toxicology and addiction specialist Dr Joseph D’Orazio about a tranquilliser called xylazine that has been showing up in alarming volumes in the US illegal drug supply and is now starting to appear in toxicology reports in the UK
    • ‘We hold you sacred’: how a mobile drug unit is fighting the opioid crisis in the Cherokee Nation

    • Secretive US rightwing group Alec designs law to give big business ‘complete immunity for bad acts’

    • Doctors fighting US opioid epidemic say insurance barrier impedes treatment

January 2024

  • Photos of victims of fentanyl are displayed on a wall

    ‘I don’t see how it ends’: expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis

  • Man talks into microphone

    Country star Jelly Roll makes emotional plea to Congress for anti-fentanyl law

December 2023

  • The making of an art protest masterpiece … Nan Goldin in All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.

    Best films of 2023
    Best films of 2023 in the UK: No 9 – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    Laura Poitras’s powerful documentary follows artist Nan Goldin on a successful crusade to publicise America’s opioids crisis
  • Bottles of prescription painkiller OxyContin at a local pharmacy in Provo, Utah, on 25 April 2017.

    US opioid activists argue against Sackler family immunity in Purdue Pharma deal

    Supreme court to review immunity of Sacklers from prosecution under a 2019 bankruptcy settlement with the OxyContin maker
  • Nan Goldin speaks during a protest in front of the courthouse where the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy is taking place, in White Plains, NY, in August 2021

    Nan Goldin named art world’s most influential figure

    Photographer and campaigner against Sackler family tops ArtReview Power 100 list

October 2023

  • a person's hand holding narcan

    White House urges all US schools to stock overdose reversal drug naloxone

  • Vial and pills of fentanyl. Xylazine can increase the potential for fatal overdoses as the drug further suppresses breathing on top of the effect on respiration caused by opioids.

    Animal tranquiliser added to opioids causing ‘steep increase’ in deaths

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