Public Health

CVS Health is working with Dublin -based drugmaker Adapt Pharma to provide uninsured patients coupons for Narcan.

Medicaid funding for substance use disorder treatments could get a boost from lawmakers, according to The Hill.

Forty-three percent of Americans say the prescription drug abuse is a serious issue, up 10 percent from 2016, according to a survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Two police officers and an ambulance attendant were hospitalized at Holyoke (Mass.) Medical Center April 5 for fentanyl exposure after treating an overdose victim, reports MassLive.

United States Surgeon General Jerome Adams, MD, issued a national public health advisory April 6, urging opioid users — and their family and friends — to carry and learn how to administer the overdose-reversal drug naloxone.

Spending on opioid addiction and overdose treatment among people with coverage from large employers increased from $273 million in 2004 to $2.6 billion 2016, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis.

As lawmakers moved to eliminate the ACA's individual mandate penalty beginning in 2019, approximately half the American public believes ACA marketplaces are "collapsing," including six in ten of those with coverage purchased through these marketplaces, according to a Kaiser Family…

Americans are increasingly misusing the nonopioid, nonaddictive painkiller gabapentin in conjunction with opioids and alcohol in areas of the U.S. already racked by the opioid crisis, according to a report from NBC News.

McKesson Corp. on March 29 committed $100 million to form a nonprofit foundation dedicated to addressing the nation's ongoing opioid epidemic.

A team of Missouri healthcare groups launched a population health database to help local hospitals identify underlying community health issues.