Lifesaving or wasteful? Opinion is divided on the ways local communities are using opioid settlement funds. Survivors of the ...

Overall, there were 52, 586 opioid-naive Medicare beneficiaries discharged to SNFs after hip fracture hospitalizations with a mean age of 85.7 years and a mean SNF length of stay being 47.9 days.

Many states are looking to prescription databases to help fight the prescription opioid and heroin epidemic across the United States, reports The Wall Street Journal. Here are three takeaways on the ...

Milwaukee County officials unveiled a new digital dashboard Tuesday to monitor opioid overdoses and direct resources to areas most in need. The initiative was announced at the King Community Center in ...

A bill proposed in this year’s Maryland General Assembly would require more transparency with how local government agencies spend money received from opioid case ...

Hebrew SeniorLife Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research A new research letter published in JAMA Health Forum highlights major gaps in how opioid use is tracked among older adults ...

Ezell Ruffin, a counselor, restocks the supply of Naloxone in a vending machine at the Linn County Mental Health Access Center, 501 13th St. NW, in Cedar Rapids on June 28, 2024. The machine dispenses ...

How does your doctor actually prescribe opioid medication? Why is it hard to get a refill? What are the best solutions to ...

State lawmakers in Lansing, Mich., will soon address proposed legislation designed to quell the state’s opioid abuse epidemic, according to Michigan Radio. State Senator Tonya Schuitmaker, R-Lawton, ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – Spokane County is facing an increase in drug overdose deaths in 2024, with 84 percent of these deaths linked to opioids. A man known to his friends as Judge is one of the Spokane ...

From 2017 to 2019, about 50 people died of opioid overdoses in Durham County each year. During the pandemic and its aftermath, that number—following a statewide increase—spiked as high as 137 a year.