Texas Health and Human Services recently launched a website to promote Texas Targeted Opioid Response (TTOR), the state’s public health campaign to combat opioid addiction and overdose. The websi...
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Civil engineers at Vanderbilt University are partnering with the Tennessee Department of Transportation to look into what kinds of transportation investment opportunities exist to help patients get to...
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The Institution for Mental Diseases (IMD) recently provided seven states, including Oklahoma, with a waiver for serious mental illness and addiction from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. ...
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Cook County, Ill., saw nearly 1,600 opioid overdose deaths in 2020, a record, the county’s medical examiner’s office said Friday. However, because the office is still awaiting the results of h...
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Delaware Sen. Stephanie Hansen joined the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services Wednesday in announcing that the first set of funding from an opioid impact fee would be used to prevent ove...
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The New Lenox Safe Communities America Coalition, in partnership with the Will County Executive’s Office, will offer Narcan training on Jan. 25. The free training will be held via Zoom. The eve...
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Pinnacle Treatment Centers, a New Jersey-based and alcohol addiction treatment provider, recently opened a location in Sandusky, Ohio. This is the company’s 15th outpatient facility in Ohio. "Th...
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A researcher at Bowling Green State University is working with a local Ohio agency to reduce the number of heroin and opioid deaths in individuals leaving jail or prison, the school announced recently...
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Discovery Behavioral Health, one of the country’s leaders in behavioral health services, has acquired Prosperity Wellness Center in Washington state, growing its national provider network to more th...
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently awarded West Virginia $1.9 million for research and programs addressing opioid misuse. Funding was divided among four organizations: ...
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