Patterns of Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths in California, 2011-2017
Male opioid-related overdose death rates are significantly hig
Read more…Male opioid-related overdose death rates are significantly hig
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How do we all get on the same page to manage abuse and ensure those that need medications aren't harmed?
Read more…California continues to face a serious public health crisis with the dynamic and rapidly changing opioid epidemic having substantial health and economic impacts. This brief describes opioid-related overdose deaths over time, and demographic differenc
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https://www.cibhs.org/yorcalifornia
The California Youth Opioid Response (YOR California) project envisions a California with a continuum of accessible and effective youth-specific services. With this goal in mind, YOR California is working with loca
Read more…https://californiahealthline.org/news/opioid-prescriptions-drop-sharply-among-state-workers/
The agency that manages health care for California’s massive state workforce is reporting a major reduction in opioid prescriptions, reflecting a national tre
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There has been an increasing interest in developing checklists and other types of succinct and enumerated approaches to concretely tackling the opioid crisis. Our colleague Paul Wormeli recently shared one such example, from Netsmart. Here
Read more…https://www.govtech.com/analytics/Behind-the-Data-on-Connecticuts-Opioid-Overdose-Problem.html
Hearst Connecticut Media reviewed the detailed data about the 3,701 opioid-related deaths over four years, from the chief state medical examiner’s office.
Read more…The Johns Hopkins prof, according to the April 8 defense filing, estimated that the cost of providing treatment, preventativ
Read more…What does the population you work with look like? Mary Ann Cooney, provided some examples of "Face of the problem", what stood out is the cross over with SocialDeterminants of Health and the role of stigma in understanding root causes of substance u
Read more…California's New Laws To Address The State's Opioid Crisis
The California Legislature looked at more than 20 bills last year designed to address the ongoing opioid crisis, passing 14. The laws cover a few approaches to bringing opioid death numbers d
Read more…The Director of the Office of National Drug Control has published the first national strategy for drug control under the Trump administration, and it calls for a 3-pronged approach to drug control--prevention, treatment and making the drugs less acce
Read more…A one-minute video of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been going viral on social media; she highlighted how public money invested in drug development ultimately gets privatized:
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1091126335274143751
This week I
Read more…Privacy | Healthcare's Digital Divide Widens, Black Book Consumer Survey
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In a follow up to an Office of the National Coordin
Read more…STAT: Privacy laws are hurting the care of patients with addiction
https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/13/privacy-laws-patients-addiction/
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Privacy must be considered in any meaningful discussion about sharing medical records. An individual’s healt
Read more…STAT: Congress should listen to addiction patients — not corporate interests — about confidentiality
https://www.statnews.com/2018/08/13/congress-addiction-patients-health-records-privacy/
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If policymakers want to address this crisis, they must
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