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.
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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.
While substance abuse experts say they think college campuses have still not fully acknowledged the rising prevalence of opioid abuse on campus, many schools have begun distributing anti-overdose drug naloxone to campus police and even students, according to The Wall…
Republican Gov. Rick Scott signed an executive order Wednesday declaring the opioid epidemic a public health emergency in the state of Florida.
Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System, along with state Attorney General Christopher Porrino and other state leaders, will lead a panel discussion for physicians and other medical professionals on the opioid epidemic.
Laws requiring physicians to check a patient's drug history in state databases help lower opioid abuse incidence, according to a paper in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy by Ithaca, N.Y.-based Cornell University researchers.