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Clinical Care
ER Often Misses Chance to Set Overdose Survivors on 'Better Path'
Study suggests that emergency department clinicians squander an opportunity to divert opioid overdose patients toward drug and mental health therapies...
Clinical Care
Docs Call California's Probe of Opioid Deaths a 'Witch Hunt'
State regulators have formally accused at least 23 doctors of negligent prescribing. More accusations are expected.
Clinical Care
Overshadowed By Opioids, Meth Is Back And Hospitalizations Surge
As opioids become harder to get, police said, more people have turned to meth, which is inexpensive and readily available....
Trump to Sign Major Opioids Package Into Law
The bill slated to be signed Wednesday includes several provisions that could directly affect stakeholders in the business side of...
Innovation
Pending Opioid Legislation Opens Doors to Telehealth Innovation
Provisions in the law, which President Trump is expected to sign, would remove certain barriers to telehealth treatment that currently...
Trump Expected to Sign Opioids Package Passed by Congress
The legislation includes telehealth provisions, a partial repeal of the Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) exclusion under Medicaid, and more.
VA Adding Opioid Antidote To Defibrillator Cabinets For Quicker Overdose Response
The project will expand nationwide in December, as VA hospitals across the country will add naloxone to their AED cabinets.
Drugmakers Play The Patent Game To Lock In Prices, Block Competitors
The patenting of a small change in how an existing drug is made or taken by patients is part of...
Strategy
Insurer To Purdue Pharma: We Won't Pay For OxyContin Anymore
This move could reduce fraudulent prescriptions to street dealers or drug-seeking people with active addictions and cut down on costly...
Innovation
Startups Get Head Start on Health System Prescription Innovations
Solutions address affordability and make dispensing more convenient and secure.
Clinical Care
Babies Dependent On Opioids Need Touch, Not Tech
The science-based treatment methods for neonatal abstinence syndrome, involve keeping mothers and their infants together in the hospital, making sure...
Clinical Care
Purdue Pharma's Sales Pitch Downplayed Risks Of Opioid Addiction
The sales pitch was 'simply not true' and 'a smoking gun,' said one physician at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School...