Bloomberg: Insys ‘Closer’ Lap-Danced to Boost Opioid Sales, Jury Told

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-29/insys-closer-lap-danced-to-boost-opioid-sales-jury-told

A former Insys Therapeutics Inc. sales manager performed a lap dance for a

Started by Joshua C. Rubin in Education

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San Francisco — where drug addicts outnumber high school students

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/San-Francisco-where-street-addicts-outnumber-13571702.php

San Francisco has more drug addicts than it has students enrolled in its

Started by Joshua C. Rubin in Public Health

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Privatization in the "last mile" is garnering national attention

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

Started by Joshua C. Rubin in Health IT

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CDC: Opioid prescriptions 87% more likely in rural areas

3 year-period of data used in this study
residents of *most* rural areas are more likely to recieve opioid prescriptions than those in urban areas.
9.6% of residents in the *most* rural counties

Started by Navah Stein in Public Health

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news severe birth defect possibly links to opioid use during pregnancy

Opioid use in pregnancy tied to severe birth defects:

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-01-17/opioid-use-in-pregnancy-tied-to-severe-birth-defects

There is a possible link between opioid use and a specific birth defect: “gastroschi

Started by Navah Stein in Public Health

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Get the Facts: Odds of Dying - ACCIDENTAL OPIOID OVERDOSE

“For the first time on record, your odds of dying from an accidental opioid overdose are greater than dying in a motor vehicle crash.”

1 in 96 odds of dying in opioid overdose
1 in 103 motor vehicle crash
As of 2017, opioid overdose is in 5th place for

Started by Navah Stein in Public Safety

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California Opioids: MAT expansion + new state opioid laws

The California MAT Expansion project

https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/individuals/Pages/State-Targeted-Response-to-Opioid-Crisis-Grant.aspx

The California MAT Expansion Project aims to increase access to MAT, reduce unmet treatment need, and reduce opioid overd

Started by Navah Stein in Public Health

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Privacy | Healthcare's Digital Divide Widens, Black Book Consumer Survey | 89 percent of consumers with 2016 provider visits report withholding health information during visits

Privacy | Healthcare's Digital Divide Widens, Black Book Consumer Survey

https://blackbookmarketresearch.newswire.com/news/healthcares-digital-divide-widens-black-book-consumer-survey-18432252

Excerpt:

In a follow up to an Office of the National Coordin

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STAT: Privacy laws are hurting the care of patients with addiction

https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/13/privacy-laws-patients-addiction/

Excerpt:

Privacy must be considered in any meaningful discussion about sharing medical records. An individual’s healt

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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/

Excerpt:

If policymakers want to address this crisis, they must

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The Shkreli Awards is a top ten list of the worst examples of profiteering and dysfunction in health care

Welcome to the 2018 Shkreli Awards, a top ten list of the worst examples of profiteering and dysfunction in health care, named for Martin Shkreli, the price-hiking “pharma bro” that everyone loves to hate.

This year, we asked our readers for Shkreli A

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Opioid overdoses put $1.94 billion strain on hospitals

Report Quantifies Staggering Impact of Overdose on Hospital Care

https://www.behavioral.net/article/prescription-drug-abuse/report-quantifies-staggering-impact-overdose-hospital-care

The analysis fo

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The Hill: 7 in 10 say US health care system has 'major problems' or is in a 'state of crisis'

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/425162-7-in-10-say-us-health-care-system-has-major-problems-or-is-in-a-state-of

A large majority of Americans surveyed

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NPR: Report: Americans Are Now More Likely To Die Of An Opioid Overdose Than On The Road

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/14/684695273/report-americans-are-now-more-likely-to-die-of-an-opioid-overdose-than-on-the-ro

For the first time in U.S. history

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How can we make 2019 the year our nation (and its public and private funders) starts to "get" the importance of infrastructure? | Deadly Hepatitis A Outbreaks Are Exposing Crumbling U.S. Public Health

In this morning's HuffPost:

Deadly Hepatitis A Outbreaks Are Exposing Crumbling U.S. Public Health Infrastructure

Over 10,000 people in the U.S. have contracted the preventable disease this year.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hepatitis-a-outbre

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Opioids don't work well for chronic pain and are overused, study finds

What are the implications of this study for prevention?

Opioids don't work well for chronic pain and are overused, study finds

NBC News story: https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/opioids-are-overused-they-don-t-even-work-well-s

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Bloomberg: The Opioid Epidemic’s First Corporate Casualty May Be a Drugmaker That Helped Fuel the Crisis

Insys’s aggressive sales tactics led to criminal charges. It’s trying to reinvent itself as a “cannabinoid pioneer.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news

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Yahoo! Finance: 'It didn't happen overnight': How the U.S. opioid crisis got so bad

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/didnt-happen-overnight-u-s-opioid-crisis-got-bad-185552218.html

The state-by-state map and the graph are interesting.

The history of ap

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Surviving traumatic life events and opioid abuse risk?

I'd be interested in starting a dialogue around surviving traumatic life events and ending up at greater risk for opioid abuse. I'm not referring to events for which painkillers might be prescribed, but more events that might lead one to experience f

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CNBC: FDA picks eight medical device firms to help battle opioid crisis

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/30/fda-picks-eight-medical-device-firms-to-help-battle-opioid-crisis.html

FDA picks eight medical device firms to help battle opioid crisis

The FDA name

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Bloomberg: Insys ‘Closer’ Lap-Danced to Boost Opioid Sales, Jury Told

San Francisco — where drug addicts outnumber high school students

Privatization in the "last mile" is garnering national attention

CDC: Opioid prescriptions 87% more likely in rural areas

CDC: Opioid prescriptions 87% more likely in rural areas

news severe birth defect possibly links to opioid use during pregnancy

Get the Facts: Odds of Dying - ACCIDENTAL OPIOID OVERDOSE

1 in 96 odds of dying in opioid overdose

1 in 103 motor vehicle crash

California Opioids: MAT expansion + new state opioid laws

The California MAT Expansion project

The California MAT Expansion Project aims to increase access to MAT, reduce unmet treatment need, and reduce opioid overd

Privacy | Healthcare's Digital Divide Widens, Black Book Consumer Survey | 89 percent of consumers with 2016 provider visits report withholding health information during visits

STAT: Privacy laws are hurting the care of patients with addiction

STAT: Congress should listen to addiction patients — not corporate interests — about confidentiality

The Shkreli Awards is a top ten list of the worst examples of profiteering and dysfunction in health care

Opioid overdoses put $1.94 billion strain on hospitals

The Hill: 7 in 10 say US health care system has 'major problems' or is in a 'state of crisis'

NPR: Report: Americans Are Now More Likely To Die Of An Opioid Overdose Than On The Road

How can we make 2019 the year our nation (and its public and private funders) starts to "get" the importance of infrastructure? | Deadly Hepatitis A Outbreaks Are Exposing Crumbling U.S. Public Health

Deadly Hepatitis A Outbreaks Are Exposing Crumbling U.S. Public Health Infrastructure

Opioids don't work well for chronic pain and are overused, study finds

Bloomberg: The Opioid Epidemic’s First Corporate Casualty May Be a Drugmaker That Helped Fuel the Crisis

Bloomberg: The Opioid Epidemic’s First Corporate Casualty May Be a Drugmaker That Helped Fuel the Crisis

Yahoo! Finance: 'It didn't happen overnight': How the U.S. opioid crisis got so bad

Surviving traumatic life events and opioid abuse risk?

CNBC: FDA picks eight medical device firms to help battle opioid crisis

FDA picks eight medical device firms to help battle opioid crisis

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