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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/WikiCommons/Mr.RuddyDuckBy 2002, it was abundantly clear the powerful opioid painkiller Oxycontin was beginning to wreak havoc in the United States.From an uptick in burglaries and robberies to a stark warning from former Attorney General John Ashcroft in a 2001 congressional hearing calling it a “​​'very, very dangerous drug,” Oxycontin’s manufacturer, Purdue Pharma, was already on the defensive.Even though the company was only at the ver

Cinde Warmington is running for governor in New Hampshire, partially by going after the opioid epidemic. She used to lobby for Purdue Pharma and defend Oxycontin.

The money is split into $4 million for block grants to local jurisdictions and $6 million in competitive grants.

PAWTUCKET – Since 2014, opioid overdoses and drug abuse have increased dramatically to epidemic levels across Rhode Island, say officials, with overdose related deaths increasing in Pawtucket from 16 in

Last year, the city of Annapolis recorded 135 total overdoses, 110 of those from heroin or another opioid, according to the Annapolis Police Department. That’s a 33% decrease from 198 overdoses reported in 2020. Overdose fatalities fell from 28 in 2020 to 16 in 2021, a 42% drop.