Public Health

MITCHELL KATZ, MD. President and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals (New York City) On the top challenge “Opioid addiction is the problem. We are prescribing buprenorphine not only in the outpatient areas but actually from the emergency department. So…

Days after FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, criticized social media companies for not doing enough to prevent the sale of opioids, Facebook, the parent company of Instagram, has cracked down on hashtags relating to the drug, according to CBS News.

CRAIG AASVED. CEO of Shodair Children’s Hospital (Helena, Mont.) On the top challenge “I believe suicide continues to be the most significant threat facing Montana today. At Shodair, about 75 percent of patients admitted to our acute care unit have…

DAVID WOOD, JR., MD. Executive Vice President and CMO of Beaumont Health (Southfield, Mich.) On the top challenge “The opioid crisis is consuming the state and our health system with full force right now. The epidemic is taking so many young…

JOHN JAY SHANNON, MD. CEO of Cook County Health & Hospitals System (Chicago) On the top challenge “The opioid crisis continues to be one of the most significant challenges for public health in Cook County and across Illinois. It is…

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger reduced opioid prescriptions by more than 50 percent systemwide since 2012, according to a report from WHYY.

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.