Public Health

Amazon is cutting its Prime membership fee by nearly 54 percent for Medicaid beneficiaries beginning March 6, The New York Times reports.

The Philadelphia Department of Public Health recently launched a new television ad campaign urging people to abstain from using prescription painkillers, referring to the medications as "heroin in pill form," according to WHYY.

The number of pediatric opioid overdose patients admitted to children's hospitals nearly doubled between 2004 and 2015, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics.

Phoenix-based Abrazo Maryvale Campus, a 232-bed hospital that shuttered last December, will reopen as an emergency department and behavioral health hospital, according to AZCentral.

While some states made premiums part of their Medicaid expansion programs, few enrollees are making the payments, according to a Kaiser Health News report.

Nearly 75 percent of all psychiatric hospital admissions in Canada's Ontario province were involuntary in 2013 — an increase of nearly four times the number of these admissions in Ontario since the 1980s, according to a study published in BJPsych…

Colorado emergency departments participating in a pilot program designed to cut opioid reliance began with the goal of reducing opioid use by 15 percent. After six months, the program yielded an average opioid reduction of 36 percent, according to a…

Fourteen states saw a decline in drug overdose deaths between July 2016 and July 2017, according to provisional data released by the CDC and cited in a Feb. 22 Stateline report.

Our nation is beset by an opioid epidemic that is colossal in scope and devastating in effect.

In a move to expand access to medication-assisted opioid addiction treatments, the FDA plans to allow pharmaceutical companies to manufacture and sell medications that help reduce opioid cravings, even if they don't fully stop addiction, according to The New York…