Hospitals and healthcare facilities are gearing up for the potential surge in patients that may arise if Hurricane Lane makes landfall in the state during the next several days, Hawaii News Now reports.
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Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital entered into a research collaboration with ideas42, a nonprofit behavioral design laboratory.
Since CMS approved Medicaid work requirements in March, some Arkansas Medicaid beneficiaries have been required to work 80 hours each month or report exemption status online to maintain benefits, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Substance abuse centers in New Orleans are struggling to treat and provide shelter for the surge of people battling opioid use disorder, according to Nola.com.
Oakland, Calif.-based Highland Hospital is among a small number of U.S. emergency departments that give patients withdrawal medicine, an effort to change a healthcare system that often fails to give on-demand addiction treatment, The New York Times reports.
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Drug overdose deaths are currently the leading cause of injury death in the U.S.
Despite conflicting information about the relationship between opioid use and national workforce levels, the opioid epidemic does not directly affect U.S. employment, according to research published in The Harvard Business Review.
Connecticut police arrested at least three people in connection to an incident Aug. 15 during which more than 80 people overdosed at a park in New Haven, according to ABC News.
Fatal drug overdoses killed more Americans than HIV, car crashes or guns in 2017, claiming 72,000 lives, according to a preliminary estimation from the CDC.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed legislation to fight the opioid epidemic into law Aug. 9, according to Mass Live.