Insurance Rules Can Hamper Recovery From Opioid Addiction Twice a day, Angela and Nate Turner of Greenwood, Ind., put tiny strips that look like tinted tape under their tongues. "They taste disgusting," Angela says. But the taste is worth it to her. Read More... August 8, 2016 Insurance, Public Health Opioid 0 0 Comment Read More »
Doctors Need A New Skill Set For This Opioid Abuse Treatment In a big hotel conference room near New York's Times Square, six doctors huddle around a greasy piece of raw pork. They watch as addiction medicine specialist Michael Frost delicately marks the meat, incises it and implants four match-sized rods. "If you can do it well on the pork, you can easily do it on the person," Frost tells his audience. Read More... July 29, 2016 Public Health 0 0 Comment Read More »
FDA approves first buprenorphine implant for treatment of opioid dependence The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Probuphine, the first buprenorphine implant for the maintenance treatment of opioid dependence. Read More... July 28, 2016 Public Health 0 0 Comment Read More »
Dissecting the new opioid prescribing guidelines The U.S. saw about 165,000 deaths from overdoses of prescription opioid medications between 1999 and 2014. The same time period saw a quadrupling in the number of opioid prescriptions written, even though the amount of pain Americans reported remained virtually unchanged. Read More... May 16, 2016 Public Health guidelines, opiod 0 0 Comment Read More »
How Kaiser, Blue Shield will seek to limit opioid overdoses With research indicating that the risk for fatal overdose dramatically increases when people take higher doses of opioids, two of California's major health players - an HMO and an insurance company - are launching efforts aimed at getting doctors to prescribe the painkillers in smaller amounts. Read More... May 10, 2016 Blue Shield, Insurance, Public Health 0 0 Comment Read More »
