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Getting Teens with Chronic Pain Back to Being Teens
Mayo Clinic teaches adolescents to keep going despite pain, and many find their pain decreases as their quality of life improves
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Case Study: Gundersen Takes Comprehensive Approach to Opioid Prescribing and Chronic-Pain Management
Wisconsin system standardizes education, tracking, intervention in face of the epidemic
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Improving the Hospital and Emergency Department Response to Substance Use Disorders
Boston Medical Center’s Project ASSERT provides alcohol and substance use disorder services
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Florida Hospital Trains ‘Peer-Recovery Specialists’ to Steer Opioid Users Toward Treatment
St. Vincent Medical Center Riverside uses $1.5M grant to fuel pilot program to fight opioid crisis
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Personal Anecdotes and Useful Insights Into the Opioid Epidemic
Plus, progress on Alzheimer’s and more in this week’s roundup of health care news
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Stemming the Opioid Tide in Rural Communities
Help is out there for hospitals trying to help patients addicted to heroin and prescription painkillers
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Stats Indicate Mixed Results in Stemming the Opioid Epidemic
Prescribing down, with wide geographic variation; related hospitalizations up sharply among females
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Video: How One Kentucky Health System Is Battling the Opioid Epidemic
Solving this widespread crisis will take time, funding and planning, says Russell Cox, president and CEO, Norton Healthcare, Louisville, Ky.
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Is Amazon Eyeing the Pharma Industry? 3 Big Questions the FDA is Asking on Opioids
Plus, the importance of speedy sepsis care, transgender surgeries are on the rise, and more in this week's roundup of health care news
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Video: AMA Chair Outlines Doctors’ Next Steps to Combat Opioid Epidemic
Prescription drug monitoring programs are not a panacea, says Patrice Harris, M.D., during an interview at the National RX Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit.
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Clean-Needle Vending Machines Debut; Papers Shed Light on Prince's Opioid Overdose
Plus, why one doc teaches brain surgery to non-MDs, and Facebook wants your brain to type faster than your hands, all in this week's roundup of health care news.
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Price Says $1 billion on the Way to Help States Fight Opioid Epidemic
Announcement draws a positive reaction from American Hospital Association and other provider groups
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‘Fentanyl is Coming’ for Your Community, Warns Massachusetts Senator
If deaths reach same levels as in commonwealth, tens of thousands will die, says Markey
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6 Ways Kentucky Is Aiming to End the Opioid Scourge in 2017
The Bluegrass State governor, speaking at the National Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit, implores health care pros to go all out to end the wave of addiction and death
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School Nurses Ready for Opioid Overdoses; A Doctorate at 71; and NPs Battle Stereotypes
Plus, a nurse helps one mom deliver at the side of the road and how one school nurse saved a child's life
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How the Opioid Culture Affects One Super Bowl Team; Price of Overdose Medication Skyrockets
Plus, Florida health systems unite in fight against mental illness, and how does that blizzard affect hospital admissions?
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Addressing the Emerging Epidemic of Despair
Hospitals need to take action against the decline in U.S. life expectancy
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Scientists Discover New Digestive Organ; Genomics Startup Partners With Mayo on Cancer Research
Plus, analysis estimates supervised drug use facilities could save millions, and CDC director maintains Zika still a threat to pregnant women
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John Glenn's Inspirational Medicine Moment; Infant Opioid Addiction Worse in Rural Areas
Plus, anesthesia may damage infant brains, and running is linked to improved cognitive brain function, all in this week's roundup of news you may have missed.
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CDC Says Deaths From Heroin, Painkillers Continue to Surge
More than 33,000 individuals lost their lives from opioid overdoses in 2015, a 23 percent uptick from the previous year.
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