by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 22, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves
A Kaiser Health News article discusses how relaxed legal requirements for clinicians to prescribe buprenorphine has the potential to improve outcomes for patients with substance use disorder, but stigma around prescribing the medication still exists. One study from...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 15, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves
The Office of National Drug Control Policy released the Model Substance Use Disorder Treatment In Emergency Settings Act for the purpose of establishing and aligning mechanisms for maximizing emergency medical settings as intervention points for people who experience...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 24, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves, Uncategorized
Republicans listed fentanyl and opioids as the top public health threat plaguing the U.S. in a new Axios-Ipsos survey, as both parties in Congress seek to spotlight the country’s overdose crisis.The new poll, published on Thursday, found that 37 percent of Republican...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 21, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves
A new report from Millennium Health shows that nearly every person that tested positive for fentanyl last year also had signs of other substances, and more than 43 percent of fentanyl-positive tests were positive for up to three additional drugs, including...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 16, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves
Two federal panels of addiction experts on Wednesday unanimously recommended that Narcan, the overdose-reversing nasal spray, be made widely available without a prescription, a significant step in the effort to stem skyrocketing drug fatalities. Making Narcan an...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 13, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
A study published in JAMA Network Open found that insurance type plays a role in how significant the financial barriers are to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) used to treat opioid use disorder. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers found...
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