Wisconsin is joining a national effort calling for Congress to permanently classify fentanyl and related substances as Schedule I drugs.
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Read More »Wisconsin is joining a national effort calling for Congress to permanently classify fentanyl and related substances as Schedule I drugs.
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Read More »The opioid epidemic has hit virtually every pocket of the U.S., from rural towns in deeply conservative states to big cities in liberal-leaning ones. But a curious divide has opened up.
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Read More »An Oklahoma judge on Monday found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state's opioid drug crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million to help abate the problem in the coming years.
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Read More »The roughly 2,000 state and local governments suing the drug industry over the deadly opioid crisis have yet to see any verdicts or reach any big national settlements but are already tussling with each other over how to divide any money they collect.
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Read More »A former Aspirus Wausau doctor has pleaded guilty to prescription fraud.
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Read More »A doctor who now lives in Sheboygan and previously ran a clinic in Queens, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and other charges in the overdose deaths of three patients who had taken prescription drugs.
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Read More »An opioid manufacturer has agreed to pay $225 million to resolve federal investigations into allegations that it paid kickbacks and used other illegal marketing tactics to sell a powerful fentanyl spray, authorities said Wednesday.
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Read More »An Ohio doctor was charged with murder Wednesday in the deaths of 25 hospital patients who, authorities say, were killed with deliberate overdoses of painkillers, many of them administered by other medical workers on his orders.
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Read More »Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is one of five state AGs who filed new lawsuits Thursday against the maker of Oxycontin.
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Read More »Milwaukee officials say they're working on a plan to help stem the opioid crisis by making access to treatment easier and following up with people who have overdosed.
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Read More »A new state report shows doctors have been prescribing fewer opioids in the past three years.
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Read More »President Donald Trump is asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to file a federal lawsuit against certain companies that supply and manufacture opioids.
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Read More »The goal is impressive: Hammer out a legal deal that starts guiding the country out of an epidemic of opioid addiction.
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Read More »Gov. Scott Walker plans to issue two executive orders to fight opioid abuse.
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Read More »Another 20 Wisconsin counties have filed lawsuits accusing pharmaceutical companies of causing the country's opioid overdose epidemic.
Read More »A Milwaukee-area law firm and a New York law firm are teaming up to help in Wisconsin’s fight against opioid addiction.
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Read More »Nearly two dozen Wisconsin counties say in a federal lawsuit that "nefarious and deceptive" marketing campaigns from pharmaceutical companies are responsible for the nation's opioid overdose epidemic.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Senate has adopted a bill cracking down on deadly opioids known as fentanyl analogs.
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Read More »The state Senate is poised to adopt a bill designed to crack down on deadly opioids known as fentanyl analogs.
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Read More »A New York man and a New Jersey woman are accused of playing roles in a conspiracy to distribute dangerous designer drugs, including a synthetic opioid that authorities say is several times more potent than morphine.
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Read More »Gov. Scott Walker has signed nearly a dozen bills designed to combat opioid addiction at stops around the state.
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Read More »By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel has taken the unusual step of revealing the state Department of Justice is investigating opioid manufacturers to see what role they may have played in creating ...
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Read More »Wisconsin lawmakers passed a package of bills Tuesday designed to combat opioid abuse, which has reached epidemic proportions and causes more overdose deaths than there are traffic deaths in the state.
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Read More »Wisconsin lawmakers are set to vote on nearly a dozen bills designed to combat opioid addiction.
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Read More »Three months after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker called on the Legislature to take swift action to combat the state's opioid epidemic, the state Assembly nearly unanimously passed nine pieces of legislation Tuesday, though not without some partisan conflict.
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Read More »A state Senate committee has overwhelmingly approved bills that would grant people who overdose on opioids legal immunity and lay out money for more state drug agents.
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Read More »The parents of a Milwaukee toddler who died after ingesting opioids have been charged with reckless homicide in their daughter's death last August, according to a criminal complaint.
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Read More »A new report says the rate of heroin overdose deaths grew more than 800 percent in Wisconsin over the last decade.
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