Facebook Live: Confronting Opioid Addiction
About 2,000 Californians died of opioid overdoses in 2016, but access to medications that treat addiction is limited in some parts of the state.
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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
KHN鈥檚 newsletter editor, Brianna Labuskes, wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you don鈥檛 have to.
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Podcast: KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat The Health?鈥 Nothing In Health Care Ever Goes Away
In this episode of KHN鈥檚 鈥淲hat the Health?鈥 Sarah Jane Tribble of Kaiser Health News, Joanne Kenen of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post examine how even after Republicans failed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the health care debate continues to roil politics. They discuss how Republicans in Congress have shifted their ACA messaging and how the Democrats are looking to Medicare expansion. They also discuss state efforts to expand Medicaid and drug pricing. And they spend a moment talking about Congress鈥 push to do something about the opioid crisis.
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Nation鈥檚 Top Doc Wants The Overdose Antidote Widely On Hand. Is That Feasible?
Surgeon General Jerome Adams urged more people to carry the drug naloxone, a lifesaving treatment for opioid overdoses. But this policy is tricky to implement.
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Great Weekend Reads From KHN
KHN's newsletter editor, Brianna Labuskes, wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you don't have to.
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Medical Marijuana鈥檚 鈥楥atch-22鈥: Federal Limits On Research Hinder Patients’ Relief
Suffering Americans seek medical marijuana as an alternative to opioids and other powerful pharmaceuticals. Though legal in 29 states, some doctors say the lack of strong data makes it hard to recommend.
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KHN On C-SPAN: Current Capitol Hill Thinking On Combating The Opioid Crisis
KHN鈥檚 Shefali Luthra offers insight into what federal and state officials are eyeing to help reduce addiction problems.
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C-SPAN: FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Talks To KHN
Kaiser Health News reporter Sarah Jane Tribble sat down with Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on C-SPAN鈥檚 "Newsmakers" program. The conversation ranged from how the nation should combat the opioid epidemic to reining in drug prices.
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To Treat Pain, PTSD And Other Ills, Tennessee Vets Try Tai Chi
In hopes of reducing an over-reliance on pills for anxiety and pain, the Department of Veterans Affairs has taken a turn toward alternative medicine.
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Staying Alive: How To Fight An Opioid Addiction
First of all, make sure you have an overdose reversal drug handy. Then prepare for years of vigilance and long-term medication.
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Omissions On Death Certificates Lead To Undercounting Of Opioid Overdoses
Standards for how to investigate and report on overdoses vary widely across states and counties. As a result, opioid overdose deaths often go overlooked in the data reported to the federal government.
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How Many Opioid Overdoses Are Suicides?
Opioid overdoses and related deaths are still climbing, U.S. statistics show. Teasing out which overdoses are intentional can be hard, but is important for treatment, doctors say.
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Graphic: Opioid Painkiller Is Top Prescription In 10 States
Though opioid prescriptions appear to be on the聽decline, Vicodin and Norco remain popular, especially in the South. In more than half of states, Synthroid 鈥 a drug to treat hypothyroidism 鈥 came in at No. 1.
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Congress Tackles The Opioid Epidemic. But How Much Will It Help?
President Trump, speaking Monday, called for a tough-on-crime federal approach. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, legislative strategies to combat this pressing public health problem are gaining momentum, but experts are not certain these approaches will make a difference.
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The Other Opioid Crisis: Hospital Shortages Lead To Patient Pain, Medical Errors
A nationwide shortage of injectable opioid painkillers has left hospitals scrambling to find alternatives 鈥 in some cases leading to dosage mistakes that may harm patients.
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Opioid Maker Funds Efforts To Fight Addiction: Is It 鈥楤lood Money鈥 Or Charity?
Purdue Pharma, whose signature product helped fuel the opioid epidemic, now wants to help treat it 鈥 or at least salvage its own reputation.
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A Battered Doctor, A Slain Patient And A Family鈥檚 Quest For Answers
An addiction-treatment physician fatally shot a troubled ex-Marine after the man pummeled him inside his California office, police records show. The tragedy illustrates how the limited number of clinics available to prescribe buprenorphine, a drug that all but erases opioid withdrawal, can become crowded, chaotic and dangerous.
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Jury’s In: Opioids Are Not Better Than Other Medicines For Chronic Pain
A new study followed patients with severe chronic pain for a year and found that opioids relieved pain and increased function no better than common drugs like acetaminophen and lidocaine. But the opioids carry the risk of more serious side effects, including addiction and death.
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While Talk About Opioids Continues In D.C., Addiction Treatment Is In Peril In States
The Trump administration has talked about prioritizing the opioid crisis, but states have seen little in the way of new resources. And, in some states, getting into treatment is becoming even harder.