Twenty-five percent of teens prescribed opioids in Arizona misuse the medications, according to a survey conducted by San Francisco-based Dignity Health and the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix.
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As of November 2016, only 21 percent of Florida's physicians and 57 percent of pharmacists signed up for the state's Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, which was established in 2011, according to researchers at the Gainsville-based University of Florida Health.
The nation's ongoing opioid overdose crisis is primarily affecting the baby boomer and millennial generations, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health.
While most patients seeking treatment for opioid addiction in California undergo medically supervised detoxification, this method is less effective and more expensive than immediately treating patients with abstinence programs and methadone or buprenorphine, according to a study published in the…
County board commissioners from at least six Minnesota counties have authorized attorneys to enter agreements with private law firms to either file a lawsuit or consider litigation against drugmakers and distributors to recoup expenses related to the public cost of…
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America's opioid crisis cost the U.S. economy more than $500 billion in 2015, dwarfing previous annual estimates produced by multiple groups of researchers, according to a report conducted by the White House's Council of Economic Advisers.
The total number of drug overdose deaths in Florida increased by 22 percent from 2015 to 2016, with opioid-related overdoses increasing 35 percent, according to a report compiled by the state's medical examiners released Wednesday and cited by The News…
Cardinal Health launched its Opioid Action Program Thursday to help communities in the four states hit hardest by the opioid epidemic — Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia.
The fiscal burden related to opioid-related overdoses and deaths in 2016 exceeded $95 billion, according to an analysis conducted by Altarum.
Nuisance ordinances in Ohio's Cuyahoga County often result in fines for residents who call 911 for incidences of domestic violence and drug overdoses, according to a study from Cleveland State University featured by Cleveland.com.