Public Health

Medicaid enrollees receive better or similar care as the uninsured and privately insured, suggests a recent study from The Commonwealth Fund.

Fatal drug overdoses involving methamphetamine increased by nearly 70 percent from 2015 to 2016 in Spokane County, Wash., according to a report from The Spokesman-Review citing data from the county medical examiner's office.

A California single-payer healthcare bill is one step closer to passage after approval from the Senate Health Committee, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

New York State lawmakers recently passed legislation targeting the opioid epidemic, according to a WGRZ report.

Babies who experience opioid withdrawal after being exposed to the drugs in utero are more likely to encounter educational difficulties in the future, according to a study from the CDC presented during the agency's Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference in Atlanta Monday.

The epidemic of opioid addiction in the U.S. is increasingly affecting older Americans, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Video has surfaced of four constables violently beating a man at Wilmington (Del.) Hospital on Feb. 24, The News Journal reports. The hospital is a part of Wilmington-based Christiana Care Health System.

If the United States is to successfully curb the rates of opioid abuse among its citizenry, providers will play a crucial role in facilitating such progress, according to an article published in NEJM Catalyst.

Nearly one-fifth of patients suffering from an opioid abuse disorder died over the course of a four-year follow up period, according to a study published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine.

While the United States saw a record high of 33,000 opioid-related deaths in 2015, new research from the CDC suggests this tally may be short of the actual cost of life associated with the most lethal drug epidemic in American…