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America's Opioid Addiction

A look inside America's opioid epidemic: How it is impacting our communities, and what medical professionals and policymakers are doing to stamp out the addiction.

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Cognitive therapy and mindfulness techniques can help patients relinquish opioid pills, medical professionals say. (Associated Press/File)

Doctors pressured for opioid prescriptions seek alternatives

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
More than half of the states and hundreds of cities, counties and American Indian tribes have taken the pharmaceutical industry — a major political contributor — to court over the opioids epidemic. (Associated Press/File)

States, tribes sue opioid makers over addiction epidemic

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, file photo provided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, members of the DEA Hazardous Materials/Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement Team go through a decontamination procedure in Lubbock, Texas. During the operation, substances were seized during an ongoing investigation of fentanyl and fentanyl-related compounds. (Russ Baer/DEA via AP) ** FILE **

Fentanyl secondary exposure can kill in small amounts

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
Placing a sensitive fentanyl test strip into a mixing container for heroin can check for contamination, giving the user a choice of whether to take a potentially deadly risk. (Associated Press/File)

Fentanyl test strips help drug users detect deadly doses

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times
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Gary Mendell's Shatterproof nonprofit helps other families cope with addiction

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Methadone is the oldest and most effective of approved medications used to treat opioid addiction and one of the most stigmatized. It is dispensed in government-licensed centers. (Associated Press/File)

Opioid addiction treatment includes other drugs

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times
Across the country, the need for addiction treatment is accelerating beyond the available resources. (Associated Press/File)

Opioid battle takes time, funding

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
Law enforcement authorities are learning that the traditional approach to curbing drug abuse isn’t working. Instead, the opioid crisis has forced police across the country to assume unfamiliar roles as drug counselors and social workers. (Associated Press/File)

Opioid crisis adds social work to police duties

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
Opioid addicts don’t fit any specific profile and sometimes are not even aware they have a problem. They can be parents holding jobs or youths being raised in loving families. Although awareness has increased, those affected say the stigma is “alive and well.” (Associated Press/File)

Opioid addiction hits all demographics

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
An estimated 167 Americans, many of them young, die each day from opioid abuse. “Nobody has seen anything like what’s going on now,” President Trump said in October 2017 while addressing the worsening drug epidemic that has gripped the nation. (Associated Press/File)

Opioid abuse numbers show health crisis worsening

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams holds up a nasal spray dose of naloxone, an opioid overdose-reversing drug in Concord, N.H., on Friday, Oct. 5, 2018. Adams was the keynote speaker at a conference organized by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center about the effects of the opioid crisis on children and families. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer) ** FILE **

HHS recommends prescribing naloxone alongside opioids

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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