Public Health

FAIR Health, a nonprofit healthcare data analytics and consumer education firm, recently used its national database to examine private insurance claims in New York state between 2007 and 2014. What the firm found was a substantial increase in such claims…

Clinicians, faculty and students at the Ernesto Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., have created a free toolkit for communities across the state to combat opioid abuse.

Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards is throwing his support behind legislation proposed in both the Louisiana House and Senate designed to address the state's opioid drug overdose epidemic.

States are eyeing a new way to combat the national opioid epidemic — public education, reports The Washington Post.

Hospitals in Massachusetts experienced the highest rate of opioid-related emergency department visits in 2014, according to a report based on state reported data conducted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Gov. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., vetoed a measure to expand the state's Medicaid program under the ACA Thursday, Star Tribune reports.

The number of adults in the United States who reported using heroin at some point in their lives increased by approximately fivefold over the span of a decade, according to a new analysis of two surveys published in the journal…

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to develop a commission to address the nation's ongoing opioid epidemic, reports Vox.

In Massachusetts — one of the states hit hardest by the opioid epidemic — local business leaders, healthcare professionals and elected officials have launched a nonprofit to address the rising rates of opioid abuse in the state, according to the…

The U.S. drug overdose epidemic is driving a rise in premature deaths across the country, according to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.