Colorado House Committee on Health and Insurance members are espousing the benefits of advancing a pair of bills designed to prevent opioid use disorder while reducing opioid overdose death rates. ...
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An initial release of more than $2.09 million to the Maine Department of Labor this week marked the first part of more than $6.28 million awarded as part of an opioid-focused National Health Emergency...
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Ohio Northern University researchers maintain rural areas such as northwestern Ohio sustain disproportionate opioid abuse versus urban centers, experiencing higher rates of opioid-related overdoses an...
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Hospital Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) officials recently provided testimony about the organization’s Opioid Learning Action Network (LAN) during a Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Po...
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Through the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP), nearly $1.5 million in federal grants will be doled out to seven local authorities to push criminal justice diversion programs ...
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New York has officially banned the sale of flavored e-cigarettes effective immediately, under new emergency regulations. This makes New York the first state in the country to ban flavored e-cigare...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed three residents to the Statewide Task Force on Opioid Abuse. Officials said Dr. Randy Katz, Selima Khan, and Michael Graves have accepted the appointments. ...
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At the urging of state Sens. Tim Kearney and Anthony Williams, the Senate Democratic Policy Committee held a hearing last week to address the opioid epidemic in Pennsylvania, in the wake of a related ...
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center has earmarked a $3 million federal grant to address opioid use disorder among pregnant and postpartum women in West Virginia. ...
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The most recent quarterly opioid surveillance report from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health showed that opioid-related overdose deaths in-state have fallen 5 percent from their 2016 high. ...
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The Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Policy Committee recently conducted a hearing to address methods of combating the state’s opioid addiction epidemic. State Sens. Tim Kearney (D-Chester/Delaware...
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Elements of CNY has opened in the village of Liverpool, New York this week, introducing a new 75-bed residential addiction treatment facility to the region and new care options such as detox rehabilit...
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Pennsylvania Drug and Alcohol Secretary Jennifer Smith recently toured the Lehigh County Jail in conjunction with the allocation of funds supporting the opioid Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Prog...
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Florida Department of Health (Department) officials said $6.6 million in grant funds has been earmarked to aid local communities in the fight against all-drug overdose and opioid abuse. The funding...
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In response to a nationwide, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) effort to crackdown on Electronic Smoking Devices (ESDs), Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot announced his disappointment this wee...
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Dr. Ashana Puri, a professor at East Tennessee State University, has earned a $10,000 grant from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy to help fund a research project into transdermal appli...
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In New Jersey, the administration of Gov. Phil Murphy looks set to make youth mental health a priority, with new training for school personnel and a Department of Education-led effort to develop resou...
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Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Mensch (R-24) is demonstrating support for a Senate-approved measure designed to strengthen opioid prescription oversight. The Senate has forwarded Senate Bill 432 to the gove...
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As part of a larger mental health initiative, Pennsylvania released a survey to state healthcare providers last week to determine the existing barriers to mental health and substance use disorder trea...
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New Jersey Human Services is doling out new funds to clamp down the opioid epidemic, funding county innovation awards, furthering the distribution of overdose antidote naloxone, and launching a new pu...
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