Public Health

The fear of being arrested sometimes deters individuals from calling 911 after administering naloxone to someone experiencing an opioid overdose, suggests a survey conducted by researchers from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed 11 special session bills designed to combat the state's opioid epidemic at three separate ceremonial events Monday.

CVS Health pledged $250,000 to the Woonsocket, R.I.-based Community Care Alliance to help launch an opioid abuse treatment center in Woonsocket, according to the American Pharmacist Association.

Gov. Eric Greitens, a former Democrat turned Republican, signed an executive order on Monday directing the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to create prescription drug monitoring database to curb opioid overprescribing.

Investigators believe a 10-year-old Miami boy may have overdosed and died after inadvertently coming into contact with the extremely potent synthetic opioid fentanyl, according to the Miami Herald.

Lake Forest (Ill.) Hospital, part of Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine, reopened at 5 a.m. Tuesday after closing on the evening of July 12 due flooding and loss of power.

The CDC will distribute $12 million this week to 23 states and the District of Columbia to support local responses to the nation's opioid epidemic.

Multiple governors expressed concern regarding the intensifying pace of the opioid epidemic during a July 13 panel at the National Governors Association's summer meeting in Providence, R.I., according to The Providence Journal.

Big data is helping lawmakers and healthcare providers find solutions to the nation's opioid epidemic, freelance technology writer Jerry Bowles wrote in a diginomica op-ed.

Ohio's attorney general's office will administer $3 million in grant funding to develop or expand Drug Abuse Response Teams and Quick Response Teams in the state.