Etiket: opiate
US opiate crisis: Police lose informant caught with enough drugs ‘to kill 25 million people’
The US anti-narcotics brigade DEA has lost a criminal who worked as an informant after he was caught with a record amount of fentanyl, a painkiller from Belgium that is…
Golden Lion for documentary about the fight against opiate family Sackler
A documentary about the Sackler family, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed by the American Laura Poitras, was awarded a Golden Lion at the international film festival in Venice on…
US pharmacists have to pay 650 million for role in opiate crisis
US pharmacy chains CVS, Walgreens and Walmart have been ordered to pay more than $650 million (about $639 million) to two Ohio counties to help compensate for damage caused by…
Native Americans get millions from drug giants in opiate crisis
A group of drug makers and distributors have agreed to pay $590 million to settle lawsuits over drug addiction among members of Native American peoples, state news agency said. AFP…