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.
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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.
HHS selected three teams as winners of its opioid code-a-thon Dec. 8, each of which received a $10,000 prize.
The following lawsuits were announced or filed since Nov. 13 by counties, states, hospitals and one city. The suits seek to recover funds spent addressing widespread illicit opioid use in each community.
UPMC's Mercy Hospital is increasing efforts to get overdose patients into treatment shortly after drug emergencies, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report.
Monroe and Sioux counties of Iowa have signed on to a lawsuit filed on behalf of more than 100 counties across eight states against five drugmakers and their subsidiaries for the companies' alleged role in facilitating the opioid epidemic, according…