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As opioid crisis rages, Oregon must decide how to spend its settlement dollars

by Mitchell Hartman
Mar 12, 2024
States are allocating hundreds of millions. Officials weigh spreading it among treatment, recovery, prevention and harm reduction.
Fernando Peña shows NW Instituto Latino's supplies funded by opioid settlement money, including Narcan, which treats overdoses, as well as safer-use, safer-sex and wound care items.
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"All the Beauty and the Bloodshed"

Art as commodity versus art as protest

by Ellen Rolfes
Jun 24, 2023
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #155
Artist Nan Goldin lies on the ground in a "die-in" protest at a museum.
(All the Beauty and The Bloodshed)
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"All the Beauty and the Bloodshed"

Where will the opioids settlement money go?

by Ellen Rolfes
Jun 16, 2023
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #154
Oxycodone pain pills prescribed for a patient with chronic pain are pictured.
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"All the Beauty and the Bloodshed"

Nan Goldin versus the Sacklers

by Ellen Rolfes
Jun 2, 2023
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #152
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Private equity investment is flooding into addiction treatment. Is that a good thing?

by Blake Farmer
Jan 25, 2023
When a new operator took over an addiction treatment center in Nashville, former employees say they saw cutbacks.
Mitzi Dawn works in addiction treatment and spent part of her career as a songwriter. Her “Sing & Share” events were part of the offerings she says were cut when a private equity-backed company took over Nashville Recovery Center in 2021.
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Prescription drugs are effective treatments for opioid addiction. Expanding access won't be easy.

by Mitchell Hartman
Dec 7, 2022
Right now, only 5% of people battling opioid use disorder have access to the treatments. The Biden Administration wants universal access by 2025.
Methadone — the oldest and most widely used addiction medication — is highly regulated by federal agencies.
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In opioid settlement, Native American tribes prove themselves as a legal force

by Lily Jamali
Feb 3, 2022
The deal marks a shift in how tribes are treated when they seek financial restitution from corporations in the courts.
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West Virginia foster parents say they need more support

by Roxy Todd
Oct 9, 2019
Roughly 5% of the state's babies are born with neonatal abstinence syndrome. Families taking them in say they feel unprepared for the task.
A memorial in Huntington, West Virginia, in 2017.
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Inside West Virginia’s overwhelmed foster care system

by Roxy Todd
Oct 9, 2019
About 85% of the children in state custody have a parent who struggles with substance use disorder. The system is straining to care for them.
A homemade sign says "Think drugs gets you high give God a try," on a front lawn in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. The town in Wise County has been hit hard by the opioid epidemic.
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The opioid epidemic is killing Americans at work, and employers are taking notice

by Jana Kasperkevic
Sep 24, 2019
To battle opioid overdoses, experts want businesses to think of naloxone like an EpiPen.
Ken Duckworth, a psychiatrist and medical director for behavioral health at Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts, holds up a nalaxone kit.
Courtesy of Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts
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