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Trained Peers as Good as Social Workers at Preventing Opioid Overdoses
THURSDAY, July 11, 2024 – Support provided by someone who has personally lived with addiction is an effective way to follow-up with ER patients after an opioid overdose, new research shows. Patients...
Supreme Court Rejects Purdue Pharma Opioid Settlement
FRIDAY, June 28, 2024 – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a controversial settlement that drug maker Purdue Pharma had reached with victims of the opioid epidemic. The ruling threatens...
Supreme Court Rejects Purdue Pharma Opioid Settlement
FRIDAY, June 28, 2024 – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a controversial settlement that drug maker Purdue Pharma had reached with victims of the opioid epidemic. The ruling threatens...
Multimodal Intervention Does Not Cut Opioid Overdose Deaths
TUESDAY, June 18, 2024 – A multimodal intervention trial implementing evidence-based practice strategies does not reduce opioid overdose deaths, according to a study published online June 16 in the...
Too Often, Overdose Survivors Miss Out on Vital Treatments: Study
WEDNESDAY, June 19, 2024 – Most seniors who survive a drug overdose often miss out on treatments that could help save them from a subsequent OD, a new study shows. Almost 24,000 Medicaid...
Most Outpatient Mental Health Clinics Don't Offer Opioid Addiction Meds
WEDNESDAY, June 19, 2024 – Only a third of outpatient mental health facilities offer medications essential for treating opioid addiction, a new study finds. Standard care for treating people with...
High Out-of-Pocket Costs Keep Some From Lifesaving Opioid Antidote
TUESDAY, June 18, 2024 – Patients are less likely to fill prescriptions for the overdose-reversing drug naloxone when they have to shell out more at the pharmacy, a new study finds. Naloxone (also...
Calls to U.S. Poison Control Centers Are Becoming More Severe
THURSDAY, June 6, 2024 – America's poison control centers are increasingly fielding calls on cases of deliberate or accidental poisonings that end in disability or death, a new report finds....
32 Percent of U.S. Adults Know Someone Who Died of a Drug Overdose
MONDAY, June 3, 2024 – Thirty-two percent of U.S. adults report knowing someone who died of a drug overdose, according to a study published online May 31 in JAMA Health Forum. Alene...
Racial Disparity Seen in Naloxone Administration
FRIDAY, May 31, 2024 – In Pennsylvania, from 2019 to 2021, Black people who died from overdose deaths had lower odds of naloxone administration compared with White and Hispanic people, according to...
Almost 1 in 3 Americans Know Someone Who's Died From a Drug Overdose
FRIDAY, May 31, 2024 – As the opioid addiction crisis continues to lay waste to American life, a new survey finds that nearly a third of U.S. adults now know someone who's died of a drug overdose....
U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths Decline for First Time in 7 Years
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 – The relentless rise in deaths from drug overdose in the United States may finally have stalled: New data from 2023 show the first decline in such deaths since 2018....
How Mindfulness Could Help Folks Quit Opioids
WEDNESDAY, May 8, 2024 — Using mindfulness to help people trying to overcome opioid addiction can boost their odds of continuing treatment, new research shows. The approach helps folks how to deal w...
Few Young Adults Could Administer Naloxone to Reverse Fentanyl Overdose
MONDAY, April 22, 2024 – Even though fentanyl-linked fatal overdoses are soaring among young adults, a new survey of American college students found that just 1 in 7 knew how to administer the...
Pediatric Prescription-Opioid Overdose Visits to ED Increased in 2020
THURSDAY, April 18, 2024 – There was a substantial increase in pediatric prescription-opioid overdose emergency department visits from 2019 to 2020 in the United States, according to a study...
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