Nixing the X Waiver Hasn't Yet Vastly Expanded Buprenorphine Access The change boosted the number of prescribers, but only modestly increased new prescriptions Apr 24, 2024
House Panel Says China Subsidizes Fentanyl Production to Fuel U.S. Crisis Most overdose deaths in the U.S. continue to be linked to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids Apr 17, 2024
Congress Can Take Action to Prevent Older Adult Falls and Associated Opioid Use The bipartisan SAFE Act offers important solutions Apr 14, 2024
No, a Jail Is Not an Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Facility How local jails ignore medical guidelines and contribute to the overdose crisis Apr 09, 2024
Genetic Test for Opioid Addiction Risk Should Be Withdrawn, Experts Tell FDA Methodology behind AvertD DNA test questioned Apr 04, 2024
Start of a New Trend? Hepatitis C Cases Drop in the U.S. After a decade of increases, health officials aren't sure if change is just a statistical blip Apr 04, 2024
Oldest Man Dies; Fentanyl Easter Eggs; Lauren Boebert's Blood Clot Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by Â鶹´«Ã½ staff Apr 04, 2024
Telehealth Improves Hepatitis C Treatment in Patients With Opioid Use Disorder Facilitated telemedicine embedded into opioid treatment programs boosted HCV cure rates Apr 03, 2024
Almost 108,000 Americans Died of Drug Overdoses in 2022, Another Record 1% higher than overdose deaths in 2021, says CDC Mar 22, 2024
'Rock Doc' Gets 20 Years for Illegally Prescribing Opioids Tennessee nurse practitioner promoted his practice with the motto "work hard, play harder" Mar 20, 2024
Oregon Measure 110 Wasn't a Failure. Rolling Back Drug Decriminalization Will Be. We can't arrest our way out of the overdose crisis Mar 14, 2024
Sickle Cell Pain Hospitalizations Rose After CDC's Opioid Recs Agency's 2016 guidance may have contributed to reduced access to opioids, and more pain Mar 11, 2024
Trump's Anti-Vax Rhetoric; Amputations After NFL Game; 'Overdose' or 'Poisoning'? Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by Â鶹´«Ã½ staff Mar 11, 2024
Clinicians at Telehealth Company File to Unionize Union head said it was "only a matter of time" before telehealth providers organized Mar 06, 2024
They Rarely Ask for Pain Pills Now Reflections on medical policy, DEA permits, and the fentanyl crisis Mar 05, 2024
Trader Joe's 60,000-Pound Recall; Will Shortz's Stroke; Oregon Recriminalizing Drugs Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by Â鶹´«Ã½ staff Mar 04, 2024
Xylazine-Laced Fentanyl Overdose: 'Make Sure They're Breathing' "We don't really need people to wake up. We need them to breathe," clinician says Feb 29, 2024
Frozen Embryos 'Children' in Ala.; GLP-1s for Opioid Addiction? New E.Coli Outbreak Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by Â鶹´«Ã½ staff Feb 20, 2024
For Kids With Sickle Cell Disease Prescribed Opioids, No Patterns of Misuse Emerged Number of vaso-occlusive crises tied to days' supply Feb 19, 2024
CDC: More People Die After Smoking Drugs Than Injecting Them Not yet clear if shift toward smoking fentanyl reduces mortality Feb 15, 2024
Minimizing Opioids After Teens' Spine Surgeries Appears Practical Alternatives prove mettle in studies Feb 14, 2024
No Survival Benefit to Higher Intranasal Naloxone Dose Moreover, opioid withdrawal signs were more prevalent with the 8-mg dose vs the 4-mg dose Feb 09, 2024
What to Know About Nitazenes, a Class of Potent Synthetic Opioids This unapproved drug class is turning up in more overdose deaths across the country Feb 05, 2024
HHS Expands Access to Methadone, Buprenorphine Updates to 20-year-old rules allow take-home methadone, treatment initiation via telehealth Feb 02, 2024
Drug-Related Endocarditis: A First Stab at Recommendations for Surgeons STS consensus statement on ethics, surgical criteria, transcatheter debulking Jan 30, 2024
Amid Overdose Surge, Oregon Lawmakers Backpedal on Drug Decriminalization Bill would not affect state's legalization of cannabis or psychedelic mushrooms, however Jan 24, 2024
Buprenorphine Less Risky for Most Birth Defects Than Methadone But researchers said any treatment for OUD in pregnancy is better than none Jan 22, 2024
Morphine Quieted Cough in Patients With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Cough frequency reduced, quality of life boosted with opioid in small crossover trial Jan 18, 2024
Opioid Exposure in Womb Tied to Kids' Risk for Eczema, Dermatitis, and Asthma No link between prenatal exposure and risk for autoimmune conditions, however Jan 18, 2024
Overdose Death Notices Plus Guidance Sink Opioid Prescribing Doctors who were told about deaths and given planning prompts wrote fewer opioid scripts Jan 16, 2024
The Sackler Family Can Act Today to Compensate Opioid Overdose Victims But it appears unlikely they will take this course of action Jan 14, 2024
We've Done Away With a Critical Source of Drug Use Data It's time to bring back the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) survey Jan 08, 2024
Xylazine Not Just a Problem in the Northeast, Study Finds States reporting at least one xylazine-related overdose death rose over 3 years Jan 05, 2024
Groups Blast FDA's Opioid Abuse Surveillance Proposal RADARS system's ties to Purdue Pharma undermine the reliability of its data, they say Jan 03, 2024
'They See a Cash Cow': Corporations Could Consume $50 Billion of Opioid Settlements Pitches land daily in the inboxes of state and local officials Jan 01, 2024
U.S. Attempts to Get Its Xylazine Problem Under Control If a bill to schedule the veterinary sedative becomes law, will that be enough? Dec 30, 2023
Bernie Sanders Has COVID; Global Fake Ozempic Problem; Nitazenes, the New Fentanyl? Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by Â鶹´«Ã½ staff Dec 29, 2023
Prenatal Fentanyl Exposure Suspected in Novel Syndrome Causality has yet to be determined for what resembles Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome Dec 29, 2023
On the Health Docket for the Supreme Court's 2024 Term An alarming agenda with potentially grave consequences for public health Dec 28, 2023
988 Lifeline Getting Mostly Good Reviews But call routing and adequate staffing remain issues Dec 26, 2023
