President Donald Trump Thursday pledged his third quarter presidential salary to HHS to help the agency fight the opioid epidemic, according to STAT.
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Sacramento, Calif., opened an urgent care clinic for mental health Wednesday to provide patients with an alternative to emergency room treatment, according to The Sacramento Bee.
During a Wednesday press conference, Attorney General Jeff Sessions introduced new joint initiates the Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration will carry out to address the nation's opioid crisis, according to a report from CBS News.
Seventy-three percent of health plans sold on the 2018 ACA exchanges sport narrow networks, according to an Avalere analysis.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway will take the helm of the Trump White House's response to America's ongoing opioid overdose and addiction epidemic, according to comments made by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday.
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The All of Us Research Program partnered with the National Library of Medicine to support its enrollment efforts, the program announced Nov. 29.
Emergency room staff at St. Louis area hospitals are bringing in recovered addicts to serve as "recovery coaches" for opioid overdose patients, according to U.S. News & World Report.
In the second quarter of 2017, one in every six ER visits was opioid related, according to data published Monday by the AI health outcomes and data company OM1.
The opioid epidemic has many faces.
More than 60 percent of patients who die of an opioid overdose likely have a diagnosed chronic pain condition, suggests a study published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.