Category: Opioids

The Illinois Department of Human Services has received $15 million in federal dollars to further combat the opioid crisis. Read More

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is suing Purdue Pharma, alleging the company used “deceptive” marketing practices to significantly increase opioid prescriptions. Read More

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released $15.1 million to Illinois to help fight the opioid epidemic, according to a statement. Read More

The state’s Medicaid Advisory Committee is scrapping plans for an opioid subcommittee and instead relying on a state task force tackling the epidemic. Meanwhile, a state official on the task force said Friday Illinois may be seeing a leveling off of opioid overdose deaths. Read More