Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards signed three bills into law on Monday collectively aimed at curbing the rising rates of opioid overdoses in Louisiana, according to The Advocate.
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Milwaukee-based Medical College of Wisconsin will launch an initiative next month to aid pregnant women and new mothers suffering from postpartum depression and substance-abuse disorders, according to a Journal Sentinel report.
A group of experts who gathered for a National Institutes of Health workshop in April 2016 called for more research on identifying and treating opioid misuse disorder in pregnant women and their babies. A summary of the workshop was recently…
Medical interventions for opioid-related diagnosis vary by state, according to a new white paper released by Fair Health, a nonprofit provider of health industry cost information.
The nation's heroin epidemic cost the U.S. approximately $51 billion in 2015, according to a study published in PLOS One.
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Alcohol and drug intoxication deaths in Maryland increased for the sixth straight year in 2016, peaking at 2,089 deaths — the largest number ever recorded in the state, according to a report from the Maryland Department of Health and Mental…
As the opioid epidemic worsens, hospitals in North Carolina have seen an increase in patients being hospitalized for endocarditis, a bacterial complication of injection drug use, according to a report in the CDC's Friday Morbidity and Mortality Report.
U.S. News & World Report and Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna's charitable foundation launched a project to research, analyze and report how communities with inventive policies and partnerships are changing citizens' health, The Hartford Business Journal reports.
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50-times more powerful than heroin, is now the primary cause of drug overdose deaths in Rhode Island, according to two studies published in The International Journal of Drug Policy.
The mayor of Dayton, Ohio, filed a lawsuit Monday against physicians, drug manufacturers and drug wholesalers for allegedly contributing to the city's ongoing opioid crisis, according to a release.