An initiative in several states last year brought peer recovery coaches—people who have personal experience with alcohol and/or drug addiction—into hospital emergency rooms (ERs) to help curb the growing rate of drug overdoses. Last ...
According to Time magazine, Medicaid is “the government’s largest health insurance program” and “the single largest payer for mental health services in the United States,” which includes substance abuse treatment (Sifferlin, 2017). The Senate’s new ...
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) has been looking into a “mystery pill” that has caused four deaths and a string of overdoses in middle Georgia last week. People believed they were purchasing Percocet when ...
While Mississippi is ranked as one of the best states in having access to naloxone, the overdose reversal drug, it also just set a record for drug overdoses in 2016 (De la Cretaz, 2017; Mitchell, ...
Pacira Pharmaceuticals recently claimed that their drug Exparel, an anesthetic that has been on the market for five years, could change the way pain is treated, and potentially help control the opioid crisis (De la ...
St. Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction, a needle exchange center in the Bronx, began handing out urine test strips to heroin users so they can determine whether their drugs are laced with fentanyl. Van ...
A new opioid called “gray death” has been reported in the Gulf Coast region, and also in Georgia and Ohio. While gray death is not yet a national problem, it has the potential to be ...
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently reported that a new fentanyl analogue “is so strong that it could possibly be resistant to the opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan” (Burch, 2017). Narcan is the brand name ...
A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that many instances of opioid-related deaths could be underreported. Dr. Victoria Hall, a CDC officer in Minnesota, and a team of ...
After examining almost “three thousand mental health and addiction treatment organizations,” the National Council for Behavioral Health (NCBH) released a report last month showing a shortage of psychiatrists in the United States (Kim, 2017). ...
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