A new report published in the medical journal BMJ last week ascribed nearly half of all opioid doses in the U.S. to merely 1 percent of health providers in 2017. Further, that 1 percent was respon...
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The federal government moved to buoy rural communities’ efforts to address drug addiction last week with the release of the Rural Community Action Guide -- an information package of background, reco...
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The United States just posted its first increase in life expectancy since 2014, thanks in part to a more than 4 percent decline in drug overdose deaths -- the first such fall in more than 20 years. ...
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West Virginia seeks to shine a light on the darkness of overdose with a new Overdose Data Dashboard that reveals the impact of substance abuse on communities and reveals those areas most badly affecte...
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Less than one-third of young people who survived an opioid overdose receive follow-up addiction treatment, according to a study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Researchers studied more ...
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