Public Health

Broward Health North in Deerfield Beach, Fla., is one of three hospitals that received patients following Wednesday's shooting at Parkland, Fla.-based Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to a report on TCPalm.com.

Palm Beach County in Florida plans to launch an emergency room dedicated exclusively to people who overdose on opioids to provide faster treatment, according to a Sun-Sentinel report.

As emergency rooms across the country continue to be swamped with flu patients, Maine hospital officials are expecting this year's flu onslaught to become even more severe, according to a Bangor Daily News report.

Robin Newhouse, PhD, MSN, RN, dean and distinguished professor of the Bloomington-based Indiana University School of Nursing, unveiled 16 pilot projects under the university's "Responding to the Addictions Crisis" initiative Feb. 5, including a statewide database on opioid use.

The nation's ongoing opioid overdose and addiction crisis cost the U.S. economy more than $1 trillion from 2001 to 2017. The epidemic is poised to cost the nation an additional $500 billion by 2020, according to an analysis released Tuesday…

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf on Saturday declared Pennsylvania's opioid overdose and addiction crisis a statewide emergency.

The companies behind the opioid overdose antidote Narcan donated 4,000 doses to Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner's opioid overdose task force Thursday. with an additional 1,000 doses scheduled to be donated to the McHenry County Substance Abuse Coalition Friday.

As of Wednesday, Monroe County (N.Y.) has seen 112 heroin overdoses — 17 of which were fatal — during the first month and a half of 2018, according to report from the Democrat & Chronicle.

San Francisco health officials are moving forward with a plan to launch two safe injection sites for intravenous drug users in July without the blessing of state officials, according to a report the San Francisco Chronicle.

The bipartisan budget agreement released by the Senate Wednesday would devote $6 billion in funding to address the nation's opioid crisis and other mental health issues, as well as $2 billion in new funds for the National Institutes of Health,…