Beginning April 25, Google will use its homepage and maps service to promote the Drug Enforcement Administration's "Take Back Day" project, which aims to address and fight the opioid crisis, according to The Washington Post.
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The Senate Health Committee unanimously voted April 24 to send the panel's bipartisan opioid bill, which includes over 40 proposals from 38 different senators, to the chamber's floor, The Hill reports.
As the opioid crisis rages unabated, both sides of the political spectrum have joined together to effect real change.
As lawmakers and White House officials wrestle with how to fight the opioid crisis, the Trump administration extended its opioid public health emergency for the second time, according to an HHS spokesperson cited by The Hill.
Nearly one-third of patients said they did not use any of the opioids they were prescribed after surgery, and just 8 percent of patients said they got rid of their remaining opioids, according to a survey conducted by Rochester, Minn.-based…
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A pair of bipartisan bills — one in the House and the other in the Senate — aimed at addressing maternal mortality have not gotten airtime as Congress remains laser-focused on the opioid crisis, according to a report from The…
The HHS provided the second installment of the Opioid State Targeted Response grants. In total, the 50 states, four U.S. territories and the free associated states of Palau and Micronesia received $485 million.
Being completely honest, it’s as difficult to write about the opioid crisis, as it is to read about it. Why?
U.S. prescription opioid dosage volume decreased 12 percent in 2017, representing the largest drop in more than 25 years, according to a report from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.
A study published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society examined the effects of the 2014 federal hydrocodone rescheduling policy on opioid use among the elderly.