HHS is giving states more than $1.8 billion in new funding to support programs that address the opioid crisis, the agency announced Sept. 4.
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Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare will hold a national "Crush the Crisis" opioid take-back day Sept. 7.
Hundreds of disabled patients end up stuck for months in Washington hospitals despite having no acute medical issues, because the state lacks community-based options, according to NPR member station KUOW.
Families across the U.S. are paying thousands of dollars for addicted loved ones to attend largely ineffective drug rehab programs, according to Vox.
Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine will establish a new Center of Excellence in which psychiatry and radiology researchers will use PET imaging to study neurobiological changes associated with opioid use disorder.
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Fatal overdoses involving synthetic opioids have increased sharply since 2013, according to a report from Rand Corp.
A recent blog post by TeamHealth reviews a discussion with David Samuels, MD, on his thoughts from a non-opioid anesthesiologist's perspective.
The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania has created the Opioid Learning Action Network.
Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich and West Virginia University President Gordon Gee have formed a nonprofit to push any national opioid settlement to hospitals instead of state and local governments, according to the Dayton Daily News.
An 82-year-old man shot and killed himself Aug. 21 in the emergency room at Wheeling (W.Va.) Hospital, according to The Intelligencer.