The emergency department services were officially terminated at Philadelphia-based Hahnemann University Hospital on Aug. 16 as part of the hospital's gradual closure process, according to a local ABC affiliate.
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Temple University's hospital and health sciences campus were placed on lockdown Wednesday evening when a gunman blocks away fired shots from a home that wounded six Philadelphia police officers after they attempted to serve a narcotics warrant, resulting in a…
Tennessee's Medicaid program has launched an effort to better integrate patients' physical and mental healthcare, with the aim of saving state and federal money and improving patient care, according to NPR.
The National Association of Attorneys General on Aug. 5 sent a letter to members of Congress, urging them to remove federal treatment barriers for opioid use disorder, according to AHA News.
An estimated 1.2 million Americans have achieved long-term recovery from opioid use disorder, according to an study published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine.
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UnitedHealthcare is offering free emotional support for people affected by last weekend's mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.
The overall drug overdose death rate in urban and rural U.S. counties nearly quadrupled from 1999 to 2017, according to new CDC data reported by STAT.
A major hole in the healthcare system has many hospitals and health systems fueling the nation's opioid epidemic — unintentionally or not.
SpecGx, a subsidiary of Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, was the top opioid manufacturer between 2006 and 2012, accounting for 37.7 percent of the pills on the U.S. market, according to Drug Enforcement Administration data published by The Washington Post.
Boston is outfitting all the buildings owned by the city with opioid overdose emergency kits by the end of the year, according to The Boston Globe.