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Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Drug overdose deaths in the United States fell by an estimated 14.5 percent from June 2023 to June 2024 ...

LOS ANGELES—America’s drug crisis has many survivors. Jerry Schlesinger, 72, is among the longest tenured. He tried heroin at 15. Today, he has been sober for two years. In between ...

Among these, 4,321 people used semaglutide, the drug branded under the names Ozempic and Wegovy, and 2,509 people used liraglutide, another drug in the same class.

In the 1990s, overprescribing by doctors, along with aggressive and deceptive drug marketing by pharmaceutical companies, led to a deadly and ongoing opioid epidemic that has killed more than ...