Tag: Opioid
R.I. receives $6.5M in federal grants to fight opioid addiction
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island received $6.5 million in State Targeted Response Opioid Crisis grant funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration,...
CVS Pharmacy to pay $1.5M for violations of the Controlled Substances...
WOONSOCKET – CVS Pharmacy Inc., the subsidiary of CVS Health Corp., has agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve a federal investigation into certain...
AG sues opioid manufacturers, distributors alleging deceptive marketing
PROVIDENCE — Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin has filed a suit against two pharmaceutical companies and three distributors, alleging their campaign unfairly, deceptively, and...
R.I. runs $600K prevention campaign ‘The Truth About Opioids’
PROVIDENCE — Gov. Gina M. Raimondo’s Overdose Prevention and Intervention Task Force announced today a local $600,000 social media and television public prevention campaign,...
Opinion: Opioid epidemic devastating R.I.
It seems that every generation has its own epidemic to battle. But unlike polio or cholera, the tragic epidemic of our time is one...
Five Questions With Moira J. Walsh
Moira J. Walsh | State representative, D-Providence
1. You were an advocate for an increase in the tipped minimum wage before you were a state...
State making strides curbing opioid abuse
A 9 percent decline in opioid-overdose deaths during the first eight months of 2017 compared with the same period the previous year shows Rhode...
City fire stations help combat drug addiction
Between 2009 and 2016, more than 1,700 Rhode Islanders died from drug overdoses.
This sobering statistic is from the Prevent Overdose Rhode Island action plan...
Butler treating opioid addiction as disease
Rhode Island added a fourth center of excellence for opioid-addiction treatment at Providence’s Butler Hospital in November, part of a statewide effort to focus...
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