As the rate of opioid overdose deaths surges in Ohio, the Akron Board of Education approved a policy Monday to stock its schools with the opioid overdose antidote naloxone, according to Cleveland.com.
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Boston Medical Center in March received $25 million, the largest private donation in its history, to launch the Grayken Center for Addiction Medicine. BMC promptly tapped Michael Botticelli, former director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy…
Most physicians see the opioid epidemic's adverse effects in their practices, according to a survey conducted by MDLinx.
Scott Gottlieb, MD, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, is asking his agency to implement new safety standards for prescribing immediate-release opioids, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Wyoming, Mich.-based Metro Health — University of Michigan Health will now provide free kits of the opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan to patients discharged after an opioid overdose.
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Maryland's governor dedicated more than $22 million to combat the state's opioid epidemic.
The sheriff of Butler County, Ohio, recently said his deputies will never carry the overdose antidote naloxone, according to The Washington Post.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, R, said the $45 million Senate Republicans have proposed to include in the Better Care Reconciliation Act to combat the nationwide opioid epidemic is inadequate, Politico reported.
The opioid epidemic has contributed to a dramatic increase in the number of children in foster care over last two years, according to The Washington Post.
Gathering reliable data on drug use poses a challenge for researchers studying the nation's the drug epidemic, according to FiveThiryEight economics and policy writer Kathryn Casteel.