opioids
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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
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...
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...
Clinical Care
N.Y. Physician Charged With Second-degree Murder for Opioid Prescribing PracticesAccording to the grand jury indictment, Blatti met with patients in his car and prescribed medications without a medical examination...
Clinical Care
Preventing Opioid Overprescribing During the COVID-19 PandemicAccording to the CDC, 81,000 drug overdoses were identified in the 12 months ending in May 2020, the highest number...
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...
Strategy
2020 Roadmap to Ending the Opioid EpidemicAMA and Manatt Health released an updated version of their national policy roadmap, where hospitals and health systems can help...
Strategy
Patients Struggle to Find Prescription Opioids After NY Tax Drives Out SuppliersPain patients in New York have lost access to vital medicine since July 2019, when the state implemented an excise...
Strategy
Purdue Pharma to Pay $8B to Settle Criminal, Civil Charges for Key Role in Opioid EpidemicThe settlement does not release from further criminal charges the Sackler family, owners of Purdue, nor any of company's executives...
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
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....