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Strategy
As Holdout Missouri Joins Nation in Monitoring Opioid Prescriptions, Experts WorrySome in public health now argue that monitoring programs to cut off prescription opiate misuse, will push addicts to use...
Clinical Care
How ERs Fail Patients with Addiction: One Patient's Tragic DeathAddicts often fall victim to two huge gaps in the U.S. healthcare system: a paucity of addiction treatment and high...
Strategy
California Lawmakers Push Feds to Allow a Therapy That Pays Meth Users to AbstainProviders worry that by paying patients they'll violate anti-kickback regulations and thus jeopardize their federal funding through Medicaid.
Clinical Care
Women Now Drink as Much as Men — And Are Prone to Sickness SoonerFor nearly a century, women have been closing the gender gap in alcohol consumption, binge-drinking and alcohol use disorder.
Strategy
Opioids like 'Lean' Permeate Hip-Hop Culture, but Dangers Are DownplayedDrug use in the hip-hop community has an ever increasing presence that is intertwined with the music ? and one...
Strategy
Addiction Treatment Providers in Pa. Face Little State Scrutiny Despite Harm to ClientsA KHN-Spotlight PA investigation found that Pennsylvania has allowed providers to continue operating despite repeated violations of state regulations and...
Covid-19
Doctors More Likely to Prescribe Opioids to COVID 'Long Haulers,' Raising Addiction FearsExperts fear that even a small increase in the inappropriate use of addictive pain pills will lead to a resurgence...
Technology
Tech Helps Reach High Utilizers to Lower ER CostsAlaska's Mat-Su Health Foundation project provides a model that its proponents say can be replicated anywhere.
Clinical Care
Pandemic-Fueled Alcohol Abuse Creates Wave of Hospitalizations for Liver DiseaseAlcoholism-related liver disease was a growing problem even before the pandemic, with 15 million people diagnosed with the condition around...
Clinical Care
Improving Medication AdherenceStarting with basic needs to improve chronic conditions during COVID-19 and beyond.
Strategy
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...