Saline County sessions will explore how community is affected by opioid crisis
Saline County is hoping to share and gather more information about how the nationwide opioid crisis is impacting the local ...
This Jail in Rural Maine Is a Model for Treating Opioid Addiction
We’re headed into the Somerset County Jail. Madison, Maine. So this is the entrance. This is for weapons clearing only. In ...
US accuses Walgreens of filling unlawful opioid prescriptions
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday accused pharmacy chain operator Walgreens Boots Alliance of contributing to the U.S.
US accuses Walgreens of filling millions of illegitimate prescriptions, including for opioids
The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit accusing Walgreens of filling millions of prescriptions for Americans over ...
St. Louis organization LIV Recovery fights opioid epidemic, saving one life at a time
Researchers credit the drop in opioid overdoses to widespread availability of life-saving antidote naloxone and expanded ...
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AHA podcast: Englewood Health's Strategies to Combat Rising Opioid Use in Post-Pandemic America
In this conversation, Vinnidhy Dave, D.O., hospice specialist and director of palliative medicine at Englewood Health ...
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Englewood Health's Strategies to Combat Rising Opioid Use in Post-Pandemic America
Vinnidhy Dave, D.O., hospice specialist and director of palliative medicine at Englewood Health Physician Network, and Lauren Savage, director of population health at Englewood Hospital, discuss what ...
There’s a new opioid antidote. But Mass. health officials are hesitant to endorse it
A new "powerful tool" for combatting opioid deaths isn't settled science. For that reason, the state is taking a measured ...
Josi: Expand access to non-opioid pain treatments
The first major legislative win for this issue came in 2022 when the NO PAIN Act was signed into law. By providing separate ...
University of Georgia gets $1.2 million grant from opioid settlement. What will it do?
University of Georgia got a $1.2 million grant from the 2021 national opioid settlement to help with resources in rural ...
What the Opium Wars can tell us about China, the U.S. and fentanyl
While synthetic opiods are a relatively new class of drugs, opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, ...
Torres: Notorious pill mill doctor is dead but no one mourns the wicked
Gayden died on Jan. 15 at the age of 71 while in federal custody, serving a sentence of 19 years and seven months. He was ...