opioids

New York state filed civil charges on Thursday accusing Johnson & Johnson of insurance fraud for downplaying the risks of opioid painkillers, including to doctors and elderly patients. Governor Cuomo said the charges by New York’s Department of Financial Services in that regulator’s opioid industry probe follow charges against Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Allergan, Endo International …

Former CIA operative Amaryllis Fox went from beating the terrorist game to examining the drug biz without missing a beat. In part that’s because the two operate hand-in-hand, she told The Post, with drug money funding many of the world’s rogue armies. In “The Business of Drugs,” a six-episode documentary series premiering this week on …

When “The Flash” actor Logan Williams died suddenly April 2 at age 16, he was mourned by many who never knew his cause of death. Now, in an exclusive interview with The Post, his mother, Marlyse Williams, reveals that preliminary toxicology results show Logan died of a fentanyl overdose, following a three-year battle with addiction. After years …

The crime drama “Hightown,” set in Cape Cod, combines three unlikely topics — the opioid epidemic, the LGBT community and some good old-fashioned murder. Premiering Sunday on Starz (8 p.m.), “Hightown” follows Jackie Quiñones (Monica Raymund, “Chicago Fire”), a hard-partying lesbian National Marine Fisheries service agent who discovers a body on the beach, a murder …