Portland Business Journal, Dec. 1, 2015 A group of more than a dozen hospitals, clinics and Coordinated Care Organizations announced Tuesday they will adopt a community-wide standard for the safe prescribing of opioids in order to combat an epidemic of abuse and addiction. The guidelines, developed over the course of the past year, are designed […]
CNN, July 7, 2015 Heroin use is increasing rapidly across the United States among all age, race, income and ethnic groups, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday. And the increase comes with a devastating price: Deaths from heroin-related overdoses nearly quadrupled between 2002 and 2013. Heroin use doubled among women and young […]
Portland Business Journal, April 27, 2015 A few years ago, a Los Angeles Times reporter named Sam Quinones found himself in Huntington, West Virginia, trying to figure out how black tar heroin from Mexico got there. Turns out it originated in a tiny town in the state of Nayarit on the central-west coast of Mexico […]
Portland Business Journal, March 27, 2015 U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell on Thursday announced a three-pronged initiative — and $133 million in new funding — to combat rampant opioid and heroin abuse. Dr. Andy Mendenhall, medical director of Hazelden at Beaverton, thinks the strategy could work. “I’m really excited, and as an […]
Portland Business Journal, Jan. 26, 2015 Legislation is being prepared in Oregon to encourage safer opioid prescribing practices. Officials could do so by removing any disincentives to prescribing abuse-deterrent painkillers. “The concept addresses the idea of patient safety and consumer protection around the use of opioid analgesics and abuse deterrents,” said Dr. David Russo, a […]
Texas Public Radio, July 13, 2014 For many people with post-traumatic stress disorder, sleeping can return you to the worst place you’ve ever been, at the worst possible moment. “I always see his face,” says Will, who did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Army. “And in my dreams it’s the same thing. … […]
MedPage Today, April 3, 2014 The FDA has okayed an auto-injector formulation of naloxone (Evzio), intended to expand the use of an agent that can rapidly reverse an opioid overdose. In a call with stakeholders Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called the auto-injector a “more user-friendly version” of naloxone, which is only […]
By Elizabeth Hayes, Portland Business Journal, Sept. 30, 2013 It’s no secret that abuse of both prescription opioids and heroin has been skyrocketing across the U.S. and in Oregon, which has the highest rate of prescription drug misuse in the country. The Obama Administration has labeled opioid abuse a national epidemic and that sense of […]
By Barry Meier, The New York Times, August 1, 2013 As doctors try to ensure their patients do not abuse prescription drugs, they are relying more and more on sophisticated urine-screening tests to learn which drugs patients are taking and — just as important — which ones they’re not. The result has been a boom […]
By The Associated Press, July 2, 2013 Overdose deaths in the U.S. are rising fastest among middle-aged women, and their drug of choice is usually prescription painkillers, the government reported Tuesday. READ – CDC report in July “Vital Signs” newsletter on CDC.gov “Mothers, wives, sisters and daughters are dying at rates that we have never […]
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