Sentences with phrase «involving opioid painkillers»
Since 1999, overdose deaths involving opioid painkillers have quadrupled.
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New York city is the latest U.S. city to bring a lawsuit against Purdue Pharmaceutical and other companies involved in manufacturing and distributing prescription painkillers, known as opioids.
The history of addiction involving laudanum and other opioid painkillers — America's first epidemic of opioid addiction occurred in the second half of the nineteenth century — may have worried many physicians considering this new crop of drugs.
Such questions were raised recently in connection with reports linking the Sackler family, prominent cultural donors, to the company that produces OxyContin, the powerful painkiller that has been involved in opioid overdoses.