Opioids
Please contact your senators today and urge them to support the revised 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 34), which is designed to overhaul drug development and accelerate new cures and treatments.
Please contact your representative today and urge him or her to support the revised version of the 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 34), which is designed to overhaul drug development and accelerate new cures and treatments.
House leaders Nov. 25 unveiled a revised 21st Century Cures bill, which is intended to overhaul drug development and accelerate new cures and treatments.
Every day, America’s hospitals and health systems are on the front lines of combatting the epidemic of addiction to prescription opioids or heroin. This public health crisis is rapidly growing in communities across the country and can no longer be ignored.
A health system in rural Minnesota has helped develop an innovative model to prevent prescription drug and opioid abuse. Staff at CHI St. Gabriel's Health in Little Falls, Minn., began researching the issue after noticing that a large number of patients in the emergency department were requesting…
President Obama July 22 signed into law the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, S. 524, legislation designed to help stem the epidemic of opioid abuse through education, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.
Progress on addressing the opioid epidemic.
Starting in fiscal year 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposes to no longer use the results from three pain management questions in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey in determining hospitals’ value-based purchasing program scores,…
The U.S. opioid epidemic has a devastating impact on patients, communities and hospitals. According to government sources, there were more than 14,000 prescription opioid overdose deaths in 2014 alone, with more than 1,000 emergency department visits every day for prescription opioid misuse. …