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.
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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.
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.
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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.
An increasing number of patients without guardians are staying in Maryland emergency departments for months, even though they don't require emergency care, according to The Capital Gazette.
Americans living in rural communities are struggling to access emergency care after a slew of hospital closures, according to a joint report from NPR and Kaiser Health News.