opioids
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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...
Strategy
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.
Finance
Practice Fusion to Pay $145M to Settle Criminal, Civil Kickbacks AllegationsThe San Francisco-based EHR vendor admitted that it took $1 million in kickbacks from opioid makers in a scheme to...
Clinical Care
Opioid Rx Drop When Default EMR Settings ChangeElectronic medical record defaults may influence emergency department prescribing.
Clinical Care
Medicaid Expansion Linked to Fewer Opioid DeathsMedicaid expansion may have prevented up to 8,132 opioid overdose deaths in 2015 to 2017 in the 32 states that...
Finance
DOJ Collected $2.6B in FCA Recoveries in 2019 from the Healthcare SectorIt's the 10th straight year that DOJ's civil healthcare fraud settlements and judgments have exceeded $2 billion.