Public Health

Between July 9-15, Snohomish County in Washington reported 57 opioid overdoses, two of which were fatal, according to K5 News.

As state legislators fight back against the opioid epidemic, one West Virginia nurse is running a harm reduction clinic to help patients struggling with addiction, West Virginia Public Broadcasting reports.

The opioid-related death rate in Georgia outpaced the national average in 2017, according to federal data cited by, according to federal data cited by MyAJC.com.

Hospitals across Texas are treating a particularly high number of patients with heat-related illnesses after triple-digit temperatures broke records across the Dallas-Fort Worth area July 21, The Dallas Morning News reports.

CDC Director Robert Redfield, MD, spoke about the opioid epidemic during a conference in New Orleans July 12 and commented on how he nearly lost one of his adult children to opioids, The Washington Post reports.

A study published in Academic Emergency Medicine examined whether low-dose ketamine is as effective as opioids for acute pain control in the emergency department.

The Netherlands has distributed heroin to its citizens via supervised injection sites or heroin treatment centers since the 90s. Dutch public health experts cite these actions as one reason the country sees significantly fewer opioid-related deaths than the U.S., according…

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf issued new opioid prescription guidelines for worker compensation cases, according to The Morning Call. 

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.

A recent blog post by Tina Joros of Allscripts, discusses how practitioners are seeking out ways to improve the safety of opiod prescribing.