by Jessica Casebolt | Sep 11, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves
As states and counties spend the first wave of opioid settlement dollars from the pharmaceutical industry, public health groups are challenging how some funds are being used. In some states, law enforcement departments receive opioid settlement money for policing...
by Jessica Casebolt | Sep 11, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves
Researchers say that access to SUD care for Medicaid fee-for-service beneficiaries has improved from 2014 until 2021. Some of the improvements that have occurred are related to offering outpatient treatment and detoxification and a decrease in prior authorizations and...
by Jessica Casebolt | Sep 11, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves
The Supreme Court on Thursday froze a bankruptcy reorganization plan for OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would have shielded members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil claims in exchange for paying up to $6 billion to address the U.S. opioid...
by Jordana Choucair | Aug 8, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
An analysis of new federal data revealed that only one in five adults who had opioid use disorder (OUD) in 2021 received medication to treat it. People who received treatment through telehealth were about 38 times more likely to receive medication for OUD (MOUD) than...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 31, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first version of over-the-counter (OTC) naloxone from a nonprofit company, a move that could bring cheap and even free doses of the opioid overdose drug to Americans who need it most. RiVive, made by Harm...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 31, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves
A study published in JAMA Network Open found that alcohol-related death rates among women increased by an average of nearly 15 percent each year from 2018 to 2020. For men, the rate of alcohol-related deaths has been on the rise since 2009, with particularly sharp...
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