A gunman entered the emergency psychiatric services wing of the University of Cincinnati Medical Center Wednesday afternoon and opened fire, injuring a hospital security officer before killing himself, according to WHIO.
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Smith County is the first county in Tennessee to file a federal lawsuit against major drug companies seeking to recoup funds expended responding the community's opioid crisis, according to a report from Nashville Public Radio.
Republican Gov. Henry McMaster officially declared South Carolina's opioid overdose epidemic a statewide public health emergency on Monday.
Several Washington hospitals are working to treat the more than 70 people injured after an Amtrak train derailed outside of Tacoma, Wash., Monday morning, careening off a bridge and onto the highway below, according to NBC News.
Cape Cod (Mass.) Healthcare officials are working with local police departments to ensure emergency room physicians receive necessary information on patients experiencing mental health emergencies before hospitals release them, according to a Cape Cod Times report.
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Patients may be using ambulances less frequently in favor of ride-sharing services such as Uber, according to a working paper co-authored by David Slusky, PhD, assistant professor of economics at the University of Kansas and Leon Moskatel, MD, an internist at…
The President's Commission on Combatting Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis issued its final report Nov. 1, detailing more than 50 recommendations on how the federal government can help address what many politicians and addiction experts have called the worst drug crisis…
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, is holding weekly meetings with officials from a dozen federal departments to create a plan of action for the opioid crisis and enact recommendations made by the president's opioid commission, according to a…
Aetna will waive copays for Narcan, a brand-name drug used to reverse opioid overdose, for its fully-insured commercial members.
Virginia plans to notify Children's Health Insurance Program enrollees their coverage is in danger of ending after the first month of 2018, according to The Hill.