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March 26, 2020 at 2:03 am

Estonia won its war on fentanyl, then things got worse VIEW

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Igor Smirnov was introduced to opiates the day his first son was born, when he got celebratory drunk and a neighbor...

December 30, 2019 at 8:40 pm

Want OxyContin in China? Pain pill addicts get drugs online VIEW

SHANGHAI (AP) — China has some of the strictest regulation of opioids in the world, but OxyContin and other pain pills are sold illegally online...

December 30, 2019 at 8:33 pm

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

SHANGHAI (AP) — Wu Yi was supposed to die. At age 26, his cancer was spreading. His doctor gave him five years to live and...

November 19, 2019 at 9:13 pm

Fake doctors, misleading claims drive OxyContin China sales VIEW

SHANGHAI (AP) — OxyContin is a dying business in the United States. Purdue Pharma, owned by the billionaire Sackler family, is collapsing under an avalanche...

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November 19, 2019 at 9:04 pm

Fake doctors, pilfered medical records drive Oxy China sales VIEW

SHANGHAI (AP) — Thousands of lawsuits across the United States have accused a drug company owned by the billionaire Sackler family of using false claims...

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November 6, 2019 at 7:12 pm

China sentences fentanyl traffickers after US tip about ring VIEW

XINGTAI, China (AP) — A Chinese court sentenced nine fentanyl traffickers on Thursday in a case that is the culmination of a rare collaboration between...

May 7, 2019 at 8:12 pm

Chinese researchers try brain implants to treat addiction VIEW

SHANGHAI (AP) — The sound of doctors boring through his skull to feed electrodes deep into his brain made Yan tremble. "The drill was like...

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Bloodied white mesh covers the head of a methamphetamine user named Yan on Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, three days after he had a deep brain stimulation device implanted as part of a clinical trial at Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai, China. The hope is that DBS will extinguish his addiction, quite literally, with the flip of a switch. Critics say such human experiments are premature and risky, but U.S. regulators in February greenlighted a human trial of DBS for opioid addiction at West Virginia University. (AP Photo/Erika Kinetz) XEK303 XEK303

May 7, 2019 at 8:09 pm

Experimental brain implants studied as opioid deaths rise VIEW

Deep brain stimulation involves implanting a device that acts as a kind of pacemaker for the brain, electrically stimulating targeted areas. While Western attempts to...

March 31, 2019 at 9:14 pm

China to regulate all fentanyl drugs as controlled substance

BEIJING (AP) — China said Monday it would begin regulating all fentanyl-related drugs as a class of controlled substances, in a change U.S. officials had...

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January 21, 2019 at 1:22 am

China grants Ivanka Trump 5 trademarks amid trade talks

SHANGHAI (AP) — The Chinese government has granted Ivanka Trump's company preliminary approval for another five trademarks this month, as her father's administration pushes ahead...

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