The Institute of Healthcare Improvement in with support from Pacira Pharmaceuticals will develop a tool to promote safer opioid prescribing for acute pain. To create the tool, IHI will convene a ...
FAIR Health has released the Opioid Tracker, a free, interactive tool tracking opioid abuse and dependence state by state. A brief released simultaneously offers a user's guide to the Opioid Tracker.
An analysis of medical literature showed a lack of screening tools in the management of opioid therapy for chronic non-cancer pain, according to research published in the journal Pain Physician. The ...
Lifesaving or wasteful? Opinion is divided on the ways local communities are using opioid settlement funds. Survivors of the overdose crisis and families who’ve lost loved ones to it are raising ...
CMS updated its Opioid Prescribing Mapping Tool to give users a more in-depth look at opioid prescribing rates across the U.S., the agency announced Feb. 22. 1. CMS launched the tool in 2015, which ...
BINGHAMTON (WBNG) -- On Feb. 17, Broome County Sheriff Fred Akshar wrote a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul asking her to add another nasal spray for overdoses to the police arsenal. Naloxone, also ...
Ophelia, which provides a digital opioid-use-recovery tool, landed $50 million in Series B funding. Tiger Global Management led the round, with participation from Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, ...
The opioid epidemic continues to rage across the country – and Pennsylvania is not immune from it. It’s been seven years since it was first designated a public health emergency, and it has continued ...
Narcan is just one brand of a drug called Naloxone, a drug used to help revive patients who are in mid-opioid overdose, essentially bringing them back from the brink of death. This tool is so useful ...
TEXARKANA, Ark. — The Arkansas Opioid Recovery Partnership has launched an app to help fight the state’s opioid epidemic. The ReviveAR app is designed for those who are currently in their addiction ...
A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia found that tailored feedback to surgeons dramatically reduces excessive opioid prescriptions for common surgeries ...
Imagine the scene. You walk into a room to find your loved one unconscious on the floor, barely breathing. You know your loved one has been using prescription painkillers or heroin and believe s/he ...