In the News
EpIC does not endorse one media site or treatment option. The news articles listed below are for informational purposes only and are meant to help continue the talks on this epidemic.
2020
- 01/10/2020 - Orange Review - "An alternative approach: Assistant CA Russel Henderson works to bring drug court to Orange County"
- 01/10/2020 - EPIC - "EpIC moves into action phase as community leaders address drug crisis in Orange County"
- 01/10/2020 - Kaiser Health News - "Family Doctors In Rural America Tackle Crisis Of Addiction And Pain"
- 01/07/2020 - ABC News - "Pharmacies say prescribers bear opioid crisis responsibility"
- 01/06/2020 - The Baltimore Sun - "Maryland receives $3.6M to address opioid crisis’ impact on mothers, children"
- 01/03/2020 - The New York Times - "In Appalachia, Crafting a Road to Recovery With Dulcimer Strings"
2019
- 12/30/2019 - CNN Health - "The FDA can’t prove its opioid strategy actually worked, study says"
- 12/19/2019 - STAT - "National Academies outlines opioid guidelines, aiming to make approach to prescribing more consistent"
- 12/19/2019 - Modern Healthcare - "States score $200M from the CMS to combat maternal opioid abuse"
- 12/13/2019 - U.S. News - "How Tramadol, Touted as Safer Opioid, Became 3rd World Peril"
- 12/13/2019 - U.S. News - "Tramadol Is an Odd, Unpredictable Opioid, Scientists Say"
- 12/13/2019 - Kaiser Health News - "In The Fight For Money For The Opioid Crisis, Will The Youngest Victims Be Left Out?"
- 12/12/2019 - MBL - "MLB, union agree to opioid testing; marijuana removed as ’drug of abuse’"
- 12/07/2019 - Culpeper Star-Exponent - "Oxford House, first recovery home in five-county area, opens in January in town of Culpeper"
- 12/04/2019 - Kaiser Health News - "Built For Counterterrorism, This High-Tech Machine Is Now Used To Detect Fentanyl"
- 11/27/2019 - STAT First Opinion - "Changing emergency doctors’ behaviors to promote wider use of medication for opioid use disorder"
- 11/15/2019 - The New York Times - "Cleaning Up After My Brother’s Fatal Overdose"
- 10/29/2019 - The New York Times Opinion - "Opioids Are an Equal-Opportunity Killer"
- 10/21/2019 - Cupleper Star Exponent - "Culpeper Drug Court"
- 10/20/2019 - The Washington Post - "Inside West Virginia’s Opioid Battle"
- 10/09/2019 - Sesame Street Tackles the Opioid Crisis
- 10/05/2019 - CNN - Opioid Crisis Fast Facts
- 09/18/2019 - WTKR.com - "ODU joins other Virginia universities to battle opioid crisis"
- 09/17/2019 - UVA Today - " UVA Leads Statewide, University-Based Coalition to Battle the Opioid Crisis"
- 09/06/2019 - STAT First Opinion - "Removing the stigma of opioid addiction is a corporate responsibility"
- 08/22/2019 EpIC - Cathy Young
- 08/06/2019 - NBC News - "Boom in overdose-reversing drug is tied to fewer opioid deaths"
- 08/06/2019 - STAT Health - "For every 69 high-dose opioid prescriptions, U.S. pharmacies dispensed only one overdose-reversal drug"
- 07/26/2019 - STAT Health - "Study: 2% of women have ‘persistent’ opioid use after childbirth"
- 07/12/2019 - Chicago Tribune - "Meth in the morning, heroin at night: Inside the seesaw struggle of dual addiction"
- 07/09/2019 - NBC News "A peek into opioid users’ brains as they try to quit"
- 06/28/2019 - Nature - "The US opioid epidemic is driving a spike in infectious diseases"
- 05/31/2019 - The New York Times - "’Become My Mom Again’: What It’s Like to Grow Up Amid the Opioid Crisis"
- 04/17/2019 - STAT Health - "In multi-state crackdown, doctors charged with exchanging drugs for sex, writing prescriptions for Facebook friends"
- 04/05/2019 EpIC - Hope’s Story
- 01/23/2019 - STAT Health - "Once a last resort, this pain therapy is getting a new life amid the opioid crisis"
2018
- 12/18/2018 - The New York TImes - "A Visual Journey Through Addiction"
- 12/16/2018 - ABC News - "Fentanyl, other opioid drugs behind 54% increase in overdose deaths in 6 years: CDC"
- 12/12/2018 - Shots from NPR - "Fentanyl Surpasses Heroin As Drug Most Often Involved In Deadly Overdoses"
- 12/09/2018 EpIC - Heroin Addiction Recovery Program (HARP)
- 12/09/2018 EPIC - "Local leaders learn about successful addiction recovery program"
- 11/17/2018 EpIC - Fine Tune Focus
- 11/08/2019 - STAT First Opinion - "The costs of heroin and naloxone: a tragic snapshot of the opioid crisis"
- 11/02/2018 - Shots from NPR - "Despite Warnings, FDA Approves Potent New Opioid Painkiller"
- 10/05/2018 EpIC - Addressing Addiction
- 09/20/2018 - STAT First Opinion - "Why there’s an overdose epidemic — in two graphs"
- 09/05/2018 - STAT First Opinion - "The Senate can change the course of the opioid crisis. Here are 50 ways it can do that"
- 05/07/2018 - American Psychiatric Association - "Nearly One in Three People Know Someone Addicted to Opioids"
- 05/01/2018 - Drugabuse.gov - "Nearly half of opioid-related overdose deaths involve fentanyl
- 04/06/2018 EpIC - Joseph’s Story
- 02/22/2018 EpIC - EpIC Begins
- 02/13/2018 - CNBC Politics - "Economic cost of the opioid crisis: $1 trillion and growing faster"
2017
- 12/21/2017 - The Washington Post - "CDC releases grim new opioid overdose figures: ‘We’re talking about more than an exponential increase’"
- 10/26/2017 - HHS.gov - "HHS Acting Secretary Declares Public Health Emergency to Address National Opioid Crisis"
- 10/25/2017 - BBC News - "Why opioids are such an American problem"
- 10/17/2017 - CBS News - "Drug overdoses killed more Americans last year than the Vietnam War"
- 10/09/2017 - PBS News Hour - "How a brain gets hooked on opioids"
- 08/06/2017 - BBC News - "Opioid crisis: Five ways to tackle the US drug epidemic"
2016
- 12/17/2016 - Fox News - "EXCLUSIVE: CDC Chief Frieden: How to end America’s growing opioid epidemic"
- 07/29/2016 - Gallup Poll - "In U.S., Opioids Viewed as Most Serious Local Drug Problem"
- 06/13/2016 - Health Affairs - "A Systems Approach Is The Only Way To Address The Opioid Crisis"
- 05/27/2016 - Los Angeles Times - "Senator calls for investigation of Purdue Pharma following Times story on OxyContin"
- 04/27/2016 - CNBC - "Americans consume vast majority of the world’s opioids"