Opioid Epidemic Fueling Hospitalizations, Hospital Costs May 3, 2016 Public Health 0 Every day, headlines detail the casualties of the nation’s surge in heroin and prescription painkiller abuse: the funerals, the broken families and the patients cycling in and out of treatment. Now, a new study sheds light on another repercussion — how this public health problem is adding to the nation’s ballooning health care costs and who’s shouldering that burden. Read More... Comments are closed.
