Between 1999 and 2014, 1 out of 10 children enrolled in Tennessee's Medicaid program were prescribed opioids, according to a study published in Pediatrics.
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A recent blog post by Tina Joros of Allscripts, discusses how practitioners are seeking out ways to improve the safety of opiod prescribing.
A third construction worker has died from injuries sustained during an explosion at a construction site at the rear of Gatesville, Texas-based Coryell Memorial Healthcare System last month, according to KWTX-10.
Massachusetts currently leads the nation in decreasing opioids prescription, according to a Blue Cross Blue Shield report cited by The Boston Herald.
Jon O'Brian, executive director of Keystone Contractors Association, which represents commercial construction workers across Pennsylvania, created an opioid awareness campaign after learning many young apprentices were overdosing on heroin, according The Morning Call.
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The House Ways and Means Committee last week approved 11 bills related to expanding health savings accounts, largely along party lines.
New York recently allowed medical marijuana to be used as an alternative to prescribed opioids to combat the opioid epidemic, according to Iohud.
Chicago licensed approximately 1,500 pharmaceutical representatives due to a citywide ordinance that aims to to slow down over-prescription practices, according to Chicago Sun Times.
Synthetic opioids such as fentanyl contribute to half of all opioid overdoses in the U.S., according to a July 11 Health Alert Network warning from the CDC.
Opioid abuse diagnoses declined 5 percent in 2017, according to a report Blue Cross Blue Shield Association released July 12.