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Under a new state pilot, paramedics in Kitsap County will start administering a medication that blunts withdrawals and cravings.

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Walgreens accusing the drugstore giant of filling millions of illegitimate prescriptions across the country since 2012.

Patrick Kennedy suggests Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be open to use of addiction medications as well as "wellness farms" for opioid use disorder.

The settlement, in principle, would not shield Purdue Pharma or the Sackler family from additional liability over their role in the opioid crisis.

The Justice Department has filed a civil lawsuit against Walgreens, accusing the 124-year-old pharmacy chain of dispensing millions of unlawful prescriptions over a period of several years.

President Donald Trump baselessly blamed a diversity program for the crash. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is still committed to diversity.

Young Black men in cities across America died of drug overdoses at high rates in the 1980s and 1990s. During the recent fentanyl crisis, older Black men in many cities have been dying at unusually high rates.

Helena Foulkes comes from a powerful political family. A very influential family with deep political and financial connections to the Sacklers — the owners of Purdue Pharma — the family and company who are named as the driving force in the opioid crisis.

Behavioral Health Crisis Outreach Response and Education (BHCore), run by the UW School of Social Work, held its first training Friday for firefighters and emergency medical services staff from nine fire departments across the state.

The drug, shown to be almost as effective as opioids for short-term pain, is the first fundamentally new kind of painkiller to win FDA approval in more than 20 years.