Alberto Pomares/GettyAs he does on most days, Kenzo, a twentysomething Dunkin’ Donuts manager, recently injected a $10 stamp bag of fentanyl, the opioid that can be 50 times stronger than heroin ... He woke up on the floor of his apartment to the sight of his girlfriend holding an empty canister of Narcan, the overdose reversal drug

It can be hard to comprehend the true scope of something as disastrous as the opioid epidemic ... That’s why Elaine Hill and Andrew Boslett, economists at the University of Rochester, were so concerned when they found that many potential opioid deaths aren’t counted as such

The maker of OxyContin is often seen as the key villain in the opioid crisis that has claimed hundreds of thousands of American lives, but makers of generic drugs shipped far more of the powerful prescription painkillers

The story we’ve been telling about the opioid overdose crisis in the United States is a tidy narrative

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