Opioid Epidemic

The three biggest likely recipients are Crosspoint, Alpha Home, and San Antonio Lifetime Recovery.

The educational nonprofit behind Sesame Street has created videos and stories for caregivers or therapists to share with kids 6 and under, to help explain addiction or why parents need treatment.

KFF Health News obtained documents showing the exact dollar amounts — down to the cent — that local governments have been paid in 2022 and 2023 in lawsuit settlements from the opioid crisis.

The initiative includes a program to send overdose reversal drugs to all 254 counties in the state.

Advisers to the FDA put the opioid overdose-reversal drug a step closer to being sold without a needing a prescription. Even if approved, the medication may not reach many people who need it.

It could amount to the last round of huge settlements after years of litigation over the industry's role in an overdose crisis linked to more than 500,000 deaths in the U.S. over the past two decades.

The county will receive about $12 million from the deal — $4 million directly and an estimated $8 million more out of the region.

Martin Phipps, 51, whose firm is co-leading Bexar County’s lawsuit against opioid manufacturers and distributors went before a judge today over allegedly using a phone to harass his ex-wife while “under the influence” of narcotics.

One of the law firms handling Bexar County’s billion dollar lawsuit against opioid manufacturers is in uproar after several employees resigned, citing a hostile work environment and abuses from director Martin Phipps.

The Bexar County jail will be among Texas' first to administer a federally approved drug to treat inmates with opioid dependence -- the most recent of…