by Jordana Choucair | Oct 21, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
The White House will release a plan today calling on the DOJ, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Indian Health Service to expand the use of medicines such as buprenorphine and methadone in pregnant women. Under the blueprint, Substance Abuse and Mental Health...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 17, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
Senior Director Tym Rourke was interviewed for a HuffPost article about the availability and use of Narcan in New Hampshire. The article was written in response to a political candidate’s comments that that the treatment, which is used to stop the symptoms of an...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 11, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
A Kaiser Health News investigation found that many hospitals don’t have specialists who know how to treat addiction. While hospitals employ numerous clinicians – physicians, nurses, therapists, or social workers – who can support patients with heart, lung, or kidney...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 29, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
Yesterday, in recognition of National Recovery Month, the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC) released a new analysis that finds the opioid epidemic cost the U.S. a record of nearly $1.5 trillion in 2020. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 26, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
A FAIR Health analysis – released to Axios one day in advance of publication – shows the rising burden of substance use across the U.S. According to the study of private insurance claims, 42 states saw an increase in the proportion of patients with opioid and...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 26, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
President Biden announced that his administration will distribute $1.5 billion to states and territories to fund responses to opioid overdoses and support recovery. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will disseminate the funding through the...
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