<p>Thirteen state laws each linked to change of less than 1 percent in proportion of patients receiving any opioid prescription </p>
<p>Clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness of simulated treatment strategies for injection drug use-linked IE compared in modeling study</p>
<p>Additional benefits include reductions in opioid dosing, emotional distress, and opioid craving </p>
<p>Sacklers will pay as much as $6 billion to assist communities harmed by the opioid crisis</p>
<p>Money will be used in efforts to reverse the damage of the opioid crisis</p>
<p>Among U.S. adult prescription opioid users, 9.2 percent also prescribed dual anxiolytic/sedative therapy</p>
<p>Instead of paying out $4.5 billion, the company is now offering $6 billion to settle the slew of lawsuits</p>
<p>From 2007 to 2019, opioid-stimulant deaths among Black people increased at more than three times the rate of White people</p>
<p>Proposed changes dovetail with a nationwide epidemic of opioid use and overdose deaths</p>
<p>Stanford–<em>Lancet </em>Commission on the North American Opioid Crisis formed to address the opioid crisis in the United States and Canada</p>