opioid addiction

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2019, photo, Jon Combes holds his bottle of buprenorphine, a medicine that prevents withdrawal sickness in people trying to stop using opiates, as he prepares to take a dose in a clinic in Olympia, Wash. The U.S. Department of Justice made clear, Tuesday, April 2, 2022, that barring the use of medication treatment for opioid abuse is a violation of federal law. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Fewer federal employees are addicted to opioids thanks to this Labor Department employee

Federal employees, no less than people in other occupations, sometimes have to deal with pain resulting from injuries. In recent years, many of them have…

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FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2015 file photo, Dr. Rahul Gupta, state health officer of West Virginia, talks in his office in Charleston, W.Va. President Joe Biden is nominating West Virginia’s former health commissioner as the nation’s top anti-drug official, tapping an official who served on the frontlines of the nation’s opioid epidemic. The White House says Dr. Rahul Gupta will be the first physician to lead the Office of National Drug Control Policy, also known as the “drug czar.” (AP Photo/John Raby)

Biden picks ex-West Virginia health official as drug czar

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FILE - This Aug. 29, 2018, file photo shows an arrangement of prescription oxycodone pills in New York. U.S. health officials Tuesday, April 9. 2019, warned doctors not to abruptly stop prescribing opioid painkillers to patients who are taking them for chronic pain ailments, such as backaches. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

The DEA keeps an eye on a problem that predated the pandemic, and will be here long after

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Ron Flegel: Opioid screening goes governmentwide Oct. 1

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FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. More than 28,000 Americans died from overdosing on opiates in 2014, a record high for the nation. That’s 78 people per day, a number that doesn’t include the millions of family members, first responders and even taxpayers who feel the ripple of drug addiction in their daily lives. A rise in prescription painkillers is partially to blame: The sale of these drugs has quadrupled since 1999, and so has the number of Americans dying from an addiction to them. When prescriptions run out, people find themselves turning to the cheaper alternative heroin and, increasingly, the even more deadly drug fentanyl. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Dr. Chester Buckenmaier: Uniformed Services University joins opioid addiction fight

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Don Cox: SAMHSA poised to tackle opioid addiction epidemic

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opioid addiction

Fewer federal employees are addicted to opioids thanks to this Labor Department employee

Biden picks ex-West Virginia health official as drug czar

The DEA keeps an eye on a problem that predated the pandemic, and will be here long after

Nearly grounded a decade, NASA to resume manned spacecraft

FDA, data analytics and the opioid crisis

Veterans Affairs publishes how many opioids it’s prescribing online

Ron Flegel: Opioid screening goes governmentwide Oct. 1

Dr. Chester Buckenmaier: Uniformed Services University joins opioid addiction fight

Don Cox: SAMHSA poised to tackle opioid addiction epidemic