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Improving Medication AdherenceStarting with basic needs to improve chronic conditions during COVID-19 and beyond.
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San Francisco Wrestles With Drug Approach as Death and Chaos Engulf TenderloinSan Francisco is on track to lose an average of nearly two people a day to drugs in 2020, compared...
Strategy
The Justice Department Sues Walmart, Accusing It of Illegally Dispensing OpioidsTwo years after the Trump administration walked away from charging Walmart criminally for its role in the opioid crisis, the...
Clinical Care
UHS Appoints New CMO for Behavioral Health DivisionUniversal Health Services Inc. has picked Mark Friedlander, MD, MBA, to lead the sprawling health system's behavioral health services.
Clinical Care
Drug Diversion Regulatory Requirements and Best PracticesThe technology and understanding of how to deal with drug diversion is evolving more quickly than regulations can be rewritten,...
Strategy
Health on Wheels: Tricked-Out RVs Deliver Addiction Treatment to Rural CommunitiesA Colorado program has transformed six RVs into mobile clinics to reach isolated farming communities and remote mountain hamlets.
Clinical Care
Assisting Patients with Substance Use DisordersAs Iverson notes, patients with a history of opioid abuse often have difficulty organizing themselves to act on a list...
Clinical Care
Pandemic Presents New Hurdles, And Hope, For People Struggling With AddictionRosalind Pichardo advertises a daily food giveaway service in the heart of Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood, where more people die of...
Clinical Care
Overdose Deaths Have Skyrocketed in Chicago, and the Coronavirus Pandemic May Be Making It WorseOpioid-related deaths in Cook County have doubled since this time last year, and similar increases are happening across the country....
Strategy
Centene, Health Net, Lawyers Slapped with $1.1B RICO SuitNow-defunct Sovereign Health says the defendants schemed to deny payments so they could recoup $390 million Centene lost when it...
Clinical Care
Vaping, Opioid Addiction Accelerate Coronavirus Risks, Says NIDA DirectorDr. Nora Volkow, who heads the National Institute on Drug Abuse, explains how emerging science points to added challenges for...
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Arkansas Hospitals File Suit Against Opioid Makers, Distributors15 Arkansas hospitals are the latest of hundreds of other hospitals across the country challenging opioid makers and distributors.