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2020-01-30
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The turnaround is welcome news after rising drug overdose and suicide rates had pushed life expectancy down since 2014 ... Could America be turning the tide on opioid addictionNPR
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Javier Zarracina/Vox Medications for opioid addiction work ... Melissa Godsey credits the medication Suboxone, also known as buprenorphine, for her recovery from a years-long struggle with opioid and meth addictionVOX
2020-01-29
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Practice Fusion, Once Backed By Top VCs, Pushed Doctors To Prescribe Opioids in Kickback Scheme originalTechCrunch: In fact, the company was just tied to the drug overdose epidemic that has killed tens of thousands of Americans in just the last few years alone ... Department of Justice, Practice Fusion solicited and received pay from an unnamed for now major opioid company in exchange for using its EHR software to influence doctors in the act of prescribing opioid pain medicationsSlashDot
2020-01-21
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AI can help find illegal opioid sellers online. And wildlife traffickers. And counterfeits. original| Don Emmert/Getty Images The government is investing in an AI-based tool that could help catch illegal opioid sales on the internet ... An estimated 130 people die from opioid-related drug overdoses each day in the United States, and 2 million people had an opioid use disorder in 2018VOX
2020-01-10
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Derrick Slaughter, 5, attends a march against the opioid epidemic on July 14, 2017, in Norwalk, Ohio ... | Spencer Platt/Getty Images A new study suggests the Medicaid expansion could help fight the opioid epidemicVOX
2020-01-09
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Andrew Cuomo D to take bolder action to reduce drug overdoses ... | Spencer Platt/Getty Images America’s drug overdose crisis could be reaching a new phaseVOX
2020-01-02
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More companies could begin making an easy-to-use version of an opioid overdose antidote under a deal announced by New York"s attorney general902
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But she quickly noticed a startling trend alongside the growing unemployment: Her subjects and their families were struggling with opioid abuse ... Silva’s interviewees might have been representative of an awful connection between job loss and opioid abuse, a connection that continues to be bolstered by researchThe Atlantic
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Counties where auto plants close see higher rates of opioid overdose deaths, new research finds originalWithin five years of an auto plant closing, opioid overdose deaths among working-age adults were 85 percent higher than in counties where plants had not closed, a new study from the University of Pennsylvania found903