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Opioids Top List of Malpractice Claims Linked to Medications
Opioid analgesics have a way of getting physicians as well as patients into trouble. These painkillers account for more medical-malpractice claims related to drug errors than any other drug class, according to a new study released today by the medical liability...
PastRx Partners with athenahealth’s ‘More Disruption Please’ Program to Fight Substance Use Disorder Epidemic
Jenkintown, PA – August 22, 2017 – PastRx, a clinical decision support service that’s fight substance abuse, today announced a partnership with athenahealth, Inc. through athenahealth’s ‘More Disruption Please’ (MDP) program. As part of the athenahealth® Marketplace,...
Treating patients with opioid disorders is not just about treating addiction. Here’s why.
Patients with opioid use disorder are much more likely than the general population to have a host of other health conditions, including hepatitis C, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anxiety. That’s according to a new analysis from health care company Amino, which...
Physicians call for better prescription drug-monitoring programs
Use of prescription drug-monitoring programs (PDMPs) has increased significantly in recent years, but information gaps remain, a problem that new AMA policy adopted at the 2017 AMA Annual Meeting seeks to address. ... “Use will go up when they become more useful...
Fentanyl and the dark web
As the nation’s opioid crisis worsens, the authorities are confronting a resurgent, unruly player in the illicit trade of the deadly drugs, one that threatens to be even more formidable than the cartels. The internet. In a growing number of arrests and overdoses, law...
Drug Deaths in America Are Rising Faster Than Ever
Drug overdose deaths in 2016 most likely exceeded 59,000, the largest annual jump ever recorded in the United States, according to preliminary data compiled by The New York Times.
The death count is the latest consequence of an escalating public health crisis: opioid addiction, now made more deadly by an influx of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and similar drugs. Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death among Americans under 50.
Fight Against Prescription Drugs Takes Another Step Forward
Beginning Saturday, April 1, all practitioners who prescribe controlled substances will be required to use the Wisconsin enhanced Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (WI ePDMP). This latest requirement comes from 2015 Act 266, which is a piece of the Heroin, Opioid,...
More Ohio newborns suffer from mother’s addiction
The number of Ohio babies who come into the world sick and craving drugs continues to soar. New state reports show that the rate of neonatal abstinence syndrome — the medical term for withdrawal symptoms suffered by newborns — jumped to 159 per 10,000 live births in...
Georgia bill would hold providers criminally liable for not tracking opioid prescriptions – Modernhealthcare.com
A Georgia state bill requiring healthcare providers to log opioid prescriptions in a state database passed a committee vote last week. The bill would make healthcare providers criminally liable for failing to keep track of the opioid prescriptions they write.
How Bad is the Opioid Epidemic? – PBS
Twelve states have more opioid prescriptions than people Not every state has seen an equal rise in opioid use. In Hawaii, doctors wrote 52 opioid prescriptions for every 100 people in 2012, the least of any state according to a 2014 CDC study. In Alabama, it was...