The turnaround is welcome news after rising drug overdose and suicide rates had pushed life expectancy down since 2014 ... Could America be turning the tide on opioid addiction

Javier Zarracina/Vox Medications for opioid addiction work ... Melissa Godsey credits the medication Suboxone, also known as buprenorphine, for her recovery from a years-long struggle with opioid and meth addiction

TechCrunch: In fact, the company was just tied to the drug overdose epidemic that has killed tens of thousands of Americans in just the last few years alone ... Department of Justice, Practice Fusion solicited and received pay from an unnamed for now major opioid company in exchange for using its EHR software to influence doctors in the act of prescribing opioid pain medications

| Don Emmert/Getty Images The government is investing in an AI-based tool that could help catch illegal opioid sales on the internet ... An estimated 130 people die from opioid-related drug overdoses each day in the United States, and 2 million people had an opioid use disorder in 2018

Derrick Slaughter, 5, attends a march against the opioid epidemic on July 14, 2017, in Norwalk, Ohio ... | Spencer Platt/Getty Images A new study suggests the Medicaid expansion could help fight the opioid epidemic

Andrew Cuomo D to take bolder action to reduce drug overdoses ... | Spencer Platt/Getty Images America’s drug overdose crisis could be reaching a new phase

More companies could begin making an easy-to-use version of an opioid overdose antidote under a deal announced by New York"s attorney general

But she quickly noticed a startling trend alongside the growing unemployment: Her subjects and their families were struggling with opioid abuse ... Silva’s interviewees might have been representative of an awful connection between job loss and opioid abuse, a connection that continues to be bolstered by research

Within five years of an auto plant closing, opioid overdose deaths among working-age adults were 85 percent higher than in counties where plants had not closed, a new study from the University of Pennsylvania found