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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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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National Safety Council (NSC) and University of Michigan researchers maintain effective intervention programs are not in place to address prescription opioid misuse among young people, noting the need...
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One of the factors in high rates of recurrent overdoses for teens, a new analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health discovered, is that most teens treated for an overdose receive no evidence...
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In response to a new state law requiring that prescription providers undertake at least two hours of continuing medical education, the Minnesota Medical Association (MMA) has created an online course ...
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ATAI Life Sciences and DemeRx officials said the entities are collaborating to develop ibogaine, which will be used to treat opioid use disorders (OUD). Two years ago, 2.1 million Americans met the...
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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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