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The state of Vermont reached a grim milestone this month when the Health Department reported that 210 Vermonters died from opioid overdoses in 2021. It is the highest number of fatal opioid overdoses the state has ever recorded.
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Vermont could receive millions of dollars under a national settlement reached Thursday with Oxycontin manufacturer Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family. The deal still needs to be approved by a federal judge.
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Vermont will receive $64 million under a settlement reached with four U.S. companies — Johnson & Johnson as well as drug wholesalers AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson — over their role in fueling the opioid crisis. The money could start flowing as soon as April.
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Attorney General T.J. Donovan’s opposition to the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan. Plus, drought continues, grants to meat processors, and honoring Lucy Terry Prince.
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Companies that sold or distributed opioid medications face huge legal, financial and public relations peril. Critics say shareholders, not CEOs, will pay the price.
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Attorneys, forensic analysts and other financial experts working for Purdue Pharma spent nearly two years looking for evidence of wrongdoing by the Sacklers. Critics want the findings made public.
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Black Americans with addiction face "pervasive and continuing systemic racism" and often struggle to gain access to treatments that prevent fatal overdoses.
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An argument for decriminalizing drug use in Vermont. Plus, vaccinated visitation, vaccines for those 65 and up, and the plan in Quebec.Want the web…
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A total of 134 Vermonters have died from opioid overdoses through November of last year, a 35% increase from the 99 deaths reported in all of 2019. A…
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As drug overdose deaths rise during the pandemic, a former White House economist says social isolation could be partly to blame.