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News Articles: opioid addiciton

Erin Carlyle is the author of the new poetry collection 'Girl at the End of the World'.

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Atlanta poet Erin Carlyle's collection reckons with grief and her father's opioid addiction

In her new collection of poetry, Erin Carlyle describes in vivid scenes how her father’s opioid addiction colors her memories of him.

October 22, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
A syringe service program recipient in Augusta dumps her used needles into a sharps container on April 1, 2024. It's an example of harm reduction, part of the continuum of care for addiction that could be funded by Georgia's share of opioid settlement funds.

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Georgia is prepped to spend millions on tackling the opioid crisis. What do drug users want?

Harm reduction, aimed at keeping people safe and alive, is one piece on the spectrum of addiction care that the state is ready to fund through settlements with major drug manufacturers.

May 16, 2024
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  • Sofi Gratas
Esther Nesbitt lost two of her children to drug overdoses, and her grandchildren are among more than 320,000 who lost parents in the overdose epidemic.

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  • Children's Health

In a decade of drug overdoses, more than 320,000 American children lost a parent

New research documents how many children lost a parent to an opioid or other overdose in the period from 2011 to 2021. Bereaved children face elevated risks to their physical and emotional health.

May 08, 2024
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  • Rhitu Chatterjee
A liquid dose of methadone at the clinic in Rossville, Ga. The medication is only available at designated opioid treatment centers and that won't change. But more clinicians will be able to prescribe it.

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  • Mental Health

With opioid deaths soaring, Biden administration will widen access to methadone

Bureaucratic hurdles mean just one-in-five people with opioid addiction get access to medication that could help them. The White House says new rules will help.

February 02, 2024
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  • Brian Mann

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'I ain't found it yet.' No line this mother won't cross to save her addicted daughter

Renae was so desperate to keep her child alive when so many others have died from overdose that she resorted to extreme measures — and extreme risks. She now supervises drug use in her own home.

December 12, 2023
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  • Martha Bebinger
Public art in Altoona, Penn., one of many cities hit hard by the opioid epidemic. Marianne Sinisi organized the installation after her son died of an overdose. State and local governments have received about $3 billion so far out of $50 billion total in settlements from national lawsuits.

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  • Health

Opioid settlement payouts are now public — and we know how much local governments got

KFF Health News obtained documents showing the exact dollar amounts — down to the cent — that local governments have been paid in 2022 and 2023 in lawsuit settlements from the opioid crisis.

June 16, 2023
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  • Aneri Pattani
A bag of assorted pills and prescription drugs is dropped off for disposal during the Drug Enforcement Administration's National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on April 24, 2021 in Los Angeles.

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  • Health

New book chronicles how America's opioid industry operated like a drug cartel

Two Washington Post journalists say pharmaceutical companies collaborated with each other — and with lawyers and lobbyists — to create laws to protect the industry. Their new book is American Cartel.

August 02, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
Suzanne and Jim Rybak, inside the craft room where their son, Jameson, would encourage Suzanne to make colorful beach bags, received a $4,928 medical bill months after it was supposedly resolved.

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  • Health Care

Never-ending costs: When resolved medical bills keep popping up

A family received a $4,928 bill that was settled with the health system 18 months earlier, resurrecting painful memories. Hospital billing experts say this distressing scenario occurs frequently.

April 06, 2022
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  • Aneri Pattani | KAISER HEALTH NEWS

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