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Tennessee professor earns $10,000 grant for research into transdermal treatments for opioid addiction

Tennessee professor earns $10,000 grant for research into transdermal treatments for opioid addiction

By Chris Galford  |   February 13, 2020   |   News

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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Pennsylvania investigating barriers to mental health and substance use disorder treatment

Pennsylvania investigating barriers to mental health and substance use disorder treatment

By Chris Galford  |   February 11, 2020   |   Featured

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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Youth opioid misuse intervention needed, report finds

Youth opioid misuse intervention needed, report finds

By Douglas Clark  |   February 7, 2020   |   Federal

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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NIH-funded study finds many teen opioid overdose patients receive no follow-up

NIH-funded study finds many teen opioid overdose patients receive no follow-up

By Chris Galford  |   February 7, 2020   |   Featured

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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Minnesota Medical Association offers self-paced course for opioid prescribers to aid legal compliance

Minnesota Medical Association offers self-paced course for opioid prescribers to aid legal compliance

By Chris Galford  |   February 5, 2020   |   Health Policy

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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Partnership to yield opioid disorder medication

Partnership to yield opioid disorder medication

By Douglas Clark  |   February 4, 2020   |   News

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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BMJ report recommends opioid interventions focus on top 1 percent of health providers

BMJ report recommends opioid interventions focus on top 1 percent of health providers

By Chris Galford  |   February 4, 2020   |   News

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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White House releases action guide for addiction response in rural communities

White House releases action guide for addiction response in rural communities

By Chris Galford  |   February 4, 2020   |   Featured

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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CDC: 20 years of data shows drug overdose deaths finally decreasing

CDC: 20 years of data shows drug overdose deaths finally decreasing

By Chris Galford  |   January 31, 2020   |   Federal

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 Office of Drug Control Policy creates interactive dashboard to track overdose impact

West Virginia Office of Drug Control Policy creates interactive dashboard to track overdose impact

By Chris Galford  |   January 30, 2020   |   Health Policy

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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Minority of adolescent overdose survivors participate in addiction treatment

By Melina Druga  |   January 28, 2020   |   News

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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