Police fatally shot an inmate being treated at Geneva, Ill.-based Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Saturday after he stole a correctional officer's gun and held two nurses hostage, reports ABC 7 Chicago.
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Vivek Murthy, MD, who served as U.S. Surgeon General before President Donald Trump fired him last month, tweeted criticism of HHS Secretary Tom Price, MD, for his comments on addiction treatment.
Hepatitis C infection rate nearly tripled in the U.S. from 2010 to 2015, and the opioid epidemic is largely to blame, according to data released by the CDC Friday during Hepatitis Awareness Month.
"Gray Death" is a deadly opioid cocktail making headlines across the nation as its reach and presence on America's illicit drug market seems to be expanding.
The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office is taking a zero tolerance stance on the extremely lethal opioid carfentanil, stating it will prosecute all individuals found to be in possession of the drug, according to the New Hampshire Union-Leader.
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Scientists with the National Institute of Standards and Technology have used two previously developed technologies to rapidly detect the presence of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl which may help law enforcement and first-responders avoid accidental overdoses when coming into contact…
Indian Health Services officials are scrambling to help more than 850 Native American patients find new facilities to receive care after the Indian Health Board of Billings (Mont.) clinic unexpectedly closed last week, according to the Billings Gazette.
HHS Secretary Tom Price, MD, and Kellyanne Conway, special counsel to President Donald Trump, stopped at Fire Station No. 2 in Charleston, W.V., as a part of Dr. Price's "listening tour" launched for the purpose of gathering information to develop…
Drug users are increasingly slipping into hospital restrooms to take heroin and other narcotics, reasoning their chances of accessing timely lifesaving medical attention in the event of an overdose are higher in such an environment, reports NPR.
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care has released an opioid stewardship toolkit to help providers reduce the amount of unnecessarily prescribed opioids to lessen the risk of patient overdose.