BOSTON — MBTA officials are pouring cold water on a legislative push to make the opioid overdose reversing drug naloxone available at subway stations, citing a lack of…
Read more MBTA balks at expanding overdose prevention kiosksThe Rockport School Committee, along with the town’s Public Health Department, is aiming to eliminate the effects of possible substance abuse in Rockport schools. During the committee’s meeting…
Read more Rockport school board updated on opioid preventionBOSTON — While the scourge of opioid addiction continues to affect Massachusetts, the number of people getting legal prescriptions for heavily addictive medicines is falling, according to the…
Read more Data: Fewer opioids prescribed in Mass., NHBOSTON — While the scourge of opioid addiction continues to affect Massachusetts, the number of people getting legal prescriptions for heavily addictive medicines is falling, according to the…
Read more Data: Fewer opioids prescribed in Massachusettsclick to enlarge Courtesy of Largest Heart Nonprofit Largest Heart distributes fentanyl test strips in Orange County to help prevent accidental overdose. When Peter Cook was in the…
Read more Orange County overdose prevention program aims to save lives, one fentanyl test strip at a timeclick to enlarge Orange County Government media gallery Orange County’s Office for a Drug-Free Community leads efforts to curb opioid deaths through prevention education, enforcement, treatment and recovery.…
Read more Orange County opens new medication-assisted treatment program for opioid addictionLAWRENCE — Sheriff Kevin Coppinger plans to stand before hundreds of police chiefs this month and tell them how he’s bringing drugs into Essex County jails. It may…
Read more Sheriff expands inmate drug treatment program to The FarmBOSTON — The scourge of opioid addiction continues to affect Massachusetts, but new data shows a double-digit decrease in the number of overdose deaths in the past year.…
Read more Opioid deaths drop 10%, but remain highWorkers who are injured on the job are at higher risk for fatal opioid-related overdoses, according to a new study, which calls for renewed efforts to reduce the…
Read more Report: Injured workers at risk for opioid overdosesDoctors desperately need tools to battle the opioid epidemic, and they’re turning to cannabinoids for new ways to approach the problem of opioid use disorder (OUD). Recently researchers…
Read more Can Cannabinoids Help People Wean Off Opioids? | High TimesA long-term study on opioid addiction and cannabis use found little to no evidence that using cannabis can help addicts reduce or stop their long-term intake of illicit…
Read more New Study Suggests Cannabis Does Not Help Opioid Use Disorder | High TimesIn the 1970s, they tried lithium. Then it was zinc and THC. Anti-anxiety drugs had their turn. So did Prozac and SSRIs and atypical antidepressants. Nothing worked. Patients…
Read more We Have No Drugs to Treat the Deadliest Eating DisorderNewswise — In a recently published commentary, UK HealthCare physicians call for standard-of-care treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) among patients who are incarcerated. The viewpoint article by…
Read more University of Kentucky physicians push for standard-of-care opioid treatment for incarcerated patientsOttawa — A Canadian province on Tuesday decriminalized the possession of small amounts of cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and other hard drugs in a radical policy shift to address…
Read more Canada province decriminalizes hard drugs in new bid to combat opioid crisisNear the end of his scheduled three-month stay at a rehab center outside Austin, Texas, Daniel McKegney was forced to tell his father in North Carolina that he…
Read more Some addiction treatment centers turn big profits by scaling back careA new study shows that reducing restrictions on buprenorphine, a medication that can treat opioid use disorder, did not lead to an increase in overdose deaths involving the…
Read more Easing prescription rules for opioid treatment meds did not increase overdose deaths, study finds
