On September 6, ONC will host a symposium on Patient Matching for Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs). This one-day symposium will bring together PDMP administrators, standards development groups, health IT developers, representatives from
Read more…See CNN for the entire story:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/26/health/opioid-trial-oklahoma-verdict-walkup/index.html
The judge presiding over the historic Oklahoma opioid trial will deliver his ruling Monday afternoon -- a decision that could have sweep
Read more…'Eat, Sleep, Console' :A protocol developed by Matthew Grossman, MD, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine. "While caring for babies with NAS, he noticed that the infant’s environment — and particularly whether the infant wa
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The nation is experiencing an opioid epidemic. In October 2017, a national public health emergency was declar
It begs the question on funding for research, when in this recent article interconnections are touched on:
...Another area of concern, which is still under the radar, is the connection between opioid addiction and gun violence. According to the study
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Denver Public Library’s Community Resource Program (CRP) is the foundation for the library’s response t
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…Harvard Health Blog: More opioids, more pain: Fueling the fire
Excerpt:
For more than a century, clinicians have noticed a paradoxical phenomenon: certain patients who are taking opioids (which are supposed to numb pain) become more sensitive to pain t
Read more…TIME: One Possible Solution to the Opioid Crisis in the U.S. Has Been Inexplicably Ignored
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Thompson served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2001-2005 and as the 42nd Gover
A peek into opioid users' brains as they try to quit
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
Read more…Two-thirds of global drug deaths now from opioids: UN drugs report
Link: https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/06/1041341
Excerpt:
Opioids, which include both heroin and legal pain relievers, were responsible for around two-thirds of drug-related deaths
FDA proposes tighter opioid rules that would make new drugs less addictive
Key Points:
One of the many changes within the Family First Prevention Services Act is
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…Many of the drug industry's biggest companies are tangled up in a wave of opioid litigation, including name brand companies Johnson & Johnson and CVS. It's unlikely large firms will fo
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One of the nation's top experts on opioid addiction said Tuesday that Johnson & Johnson's role in the current epidemic may be even "worse" than that of P
STAT: Insys Therapeutics, opioid maker implicated in major kickback scheme, files for bankruptcy
Insys Therapeutics (INSY) announced Monday it had filed for bankruptcy and will sell most of its assets, just days after agreeing to pay $225 million to s
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