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Global Opioids
Global Opioids
Global Opioids

Global Opioids

As the U.S. fights to undo the damage from the opioid epidemic, pharmaceutical companies are expanding around the world. The Associated Press, supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, is investigating this global spread of opioids and its consequences.

China has pain pill addicts too, but no one’s counting them

By ERIKA KINETZDecember 31, 2019 GMT

SHANGHAI (AP) —

Wu Yi was supposed to die. At age 26, his cancer was spreading.

His doctor gave him five years to live and a prescription for OxyContin.

Rwanda avoids US-style opioids crisis by making own morphine

By CARA ANNA and CLAIRE GALOFARODecember 25, 2019 GMT
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Fake doctors, pilfered medical records drive Oxy China sales

By ERIKA KINETZNovember 20, 2019 GMT

AP key findings about Mundipharma’s OxyContin sales in China

By ERIKA KINETZNovember 20, 2019 GMT

SHANGHAI (AP) — The Sackler family’s opioid empire in the United States is collapsing under an avalanche of litigation over marketing tactics. Their Purdue Pharma company is in bankruptcy, but the...

How tramadol, touted as safer opioid, became 3rd world peril

By EMILY SCHMALL and CLAIRE GALOFARODecember 13, 2019 GMT
By CLAIRE GALOFARO and LINDSAY WHITEHURST The rise and fall of an Eagle Scout's deadly fentanyl empire
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Son’s opioid addiction subjects mom to goodbye after goodbye

By KRISTEN GELINEAUSeptember 7, 2019 GMT

Opioid crisis goes global as deaths surge in Australia

By KRISTEN GELINEAUSeptember 6, 2019 GMT
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    Australian mother Deb Ware is in a race to save her son from a crippling addiction to opioids.
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    When this Australian woman begged her doctors to fix her knee pain, they sent her away with opioids. Addiction and depression followed.
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    This Australian man watched in horror as his friend was broken by an opioid addiction fed by Australia's easy access to the drugs.
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AP: Purdue foreign arm caught up in opioid probe in Europe

By CLAIRE GALOFARO and FRANCES D'EMILIOMay 29, 2019 GMT

Top Takeaways from AP’s report on Italy’s ‘Pain League’

By The Associated PressMay 29, 2019 GMT
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Where did the Sacklers move cash from their opioid maker?

By ADAM GELLER January 10, 2020 GMT

Ninety minutes outside London, a turn down a narrow lane leads past fields of grazing cattle to a sign warning "Private Keep Off." Around an elbow bend, a great stone manor, its formal gardens and...

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