Bloomberg: How the ‘Worst’ Launch in Pharma History Spurred Opioid Surge
Bloomberg: How the ‘Worst’ Launch in Pharma History Spurred Opioid Surge
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Kapoor ripped into his underlings, calling it the “worst
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Health Affairs: A Transitioning Epidemic: How The Opioid Crisis Is Driving The Rise In Hepatitis C
Health Affairs: A Transitioning Epidemic: How The Opioid Crisis Is Driving The Rise In Hepatitis C
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05232
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The hepatitis C virus is responsible for more deaths in the United States
Vox: The opioid epidemic is a crisis, but Trump isn’t treating it like one
Vox: The opioid epidemic is a crisis, but Trump isn’t treating it like one
Trump hasn’t delivered on his promise to seriously confront the opioid epidemic.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2
Read more…Bloomberg: Insys ‘Closer’ Lap-Danced to Boost Opioid Sales, Jury Told
Bloomberg: Insys ‘Closer’ Lap-Danced to Boost Opioid Sales, Jury Told
A former Insys Therapeutics Inc. sales manager performed a lap dance for a
Read more…San Francisco — where drug addicts outnumber high school students
San Francisco — where drug addicts outnumber high school students
San Francisco has more drug addicts than it has students enrolled in its
Read more…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
Read more…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
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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
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
Read more…STAT: Congress should listen to addiction patients — not corporate interests — about confidentiality
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
Read more…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
Opioid overdoses put $1.94 billion strain on hospitals
Opioid overdoses put $1.94 billion strain on hospitals
Report Quantifies Staggering Impact of Overdose on Hospital Care
The analysis fo
Read more…The Hill: 7 in 10 say US health care system has 'major problems' or is in a 'state of crisis'
The Hill: 7 in 10 say US health care system has 'major problems' or is in a 'state of crisis'
A large majority of Americans surveyed
Read more…NPR: Report: Americans Are Now More Likely To Die Of An Opioid Overdose Than On The Road
NPR: Report: Americans Are Now More Likely To Die Of An Opioid Overdose Than On The Road
For the first time in U.S. history
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.
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
Read more…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
Insys’s aggressive sales tactics led to criminal charges. It’s trying to reinvent itself as a “cannabinoid pioneer.”
Yahoo! Finance: 'It didn't happen overnight': How the U.S. opioid crisis got so bad
Yahoo! Finance: 'It didn't happen overnight': How the U.S. opioid crisis got so bad
The state-by-state map and the graph are interesting.
The history of ap
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
Read more…CNBC: FDA picks eight medical device firms to help battle opioid crisis
CNBC: FDA picks eight medical device firms to help battle opioid crisis
FDA picks eight medical device firms to help battle opioid crisis
For Discussion | November 2017 | Bloomberg | Opioid-Crisis Cost Revised to $504 Billion in Sixfold Surge
For Discussion | November 2017 | Bloomberg | Opioid-Crisis Cost Revised to $504 Billion in Sixfold Surge
Link from one year ago: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-20/trump-economists-say-opioid-crisis-much-bigger-than-envisioned
That was
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