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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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.
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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.
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.
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…