CMS will award 18-month planning grants totaling $50 million to at least 10 state Medicaid agencies for proposals that increase the capacity of substance use disorder treatment and recovery services, particularly those that address opioid use.
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In the late 1990s, pharmaceutical companies assured the medical community that the risk of patients becoming addicted to certain opioid pain medication was minuscule.
The Washington Post follows a couple from rural Tennessee as they travel to a pop-up clinic for the first medical care they've had in years.
Many surgeons continued to write excessive opioid prescriptions for patients after surgery amid skyrocketing rates of overdose deaths in the U.S., according to an analysis from Kaiser Health News.
Lawyers representing cities and counties suing drugmakers, distributors and retailers over their alleged roles in the opioid crisis have proposed bringing all 24,500 communities across the U.S. into negotiations to reach a comprehensive national opioid settlement, according to The New…
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Post-discharge opioid use is far more likely among patients who are given opioids during their hospital stay compared to patients who do not receive opioids, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Every two hours, a U.S. child visits an emergency department with an injury linked to a cosmetic product, according to a study published in Clinical Pediatrics.
Healthcare-sharing ministries, which are religious organizations whose members help pay each other's medical bills, now cover more than a million people — up from about 200,000 before the ACA, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Most people who live near the proposed area for Philadelphia's supervised injection site are in favor of its opening, according to a study published in the Journal of Urban Health.
A Trump administration proposal that would change how the federal poverty line is calculated would cause millions of people to lose assistance from government health programs, according to a report from the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.