By Cara Murez | HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, April 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. opioid crisis led to changes that make it easier for people struggling with addiction to get medication from a health care provider to help them quit. But researchers found that for some reason, rates of[Read More…]
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‘Addiction medicine is primary care’: Patients who visit their primary care doctor for opioid addiction treatment reduce their overdose risk, a new study suggests
By AUBREY WHELAN | THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER PHILADELPHIA — As a primary care physician at Jefferson Health, Greg Jaffe helps his patients navigate diabetes and high blood pressure, flu shots and annual checkups — standard fare for a family medicine practitioner. But for many of his patients, he also oversees a[Read More…]
Millions with opioid addiction don’t receive residential treatment
Live-in facilities offer ‘some of the best treatment for those with severe substance use’ CHICAGO — Approximately 7 million adults in the U.S. are living with opioid use disorder (OUD). Yet a new Northwestern Medicine study that measured residential treatment use among Medicaid enrollees across nine states found only 7% of enrollees[Read More…]
Biden’s drug czar declares fentanyl laced with animal tranquilizer an ’emerging threat’ facing U.S.
Fentanyl mixed with the veterinary sedative xylazine has been linked to a sharp increase of overdose deaths across the country. By Daniel Arkin President Joe Biden’s drug czar on Wednesday declared that fentanyl mixed with xylazine, an animal tranquilizer known as “tranq” that has been linked to a rising number of overdose[Read More…]
Kentucky AG stops in Greenup during ‘Fight Fentanyl Operation’ tour
By Lane Ball GREENUP, KY (WOWK) – Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R-KY) made a stop in Greenup County on his Fight Fentanyl Operation tour across the Commonwealth. Local leaders, addiction recovery officials and concerned residents gathered at the Jesse Stuart Lodge in the Greenbo Lake State Resort Park Wednesday afternoon. Watch[Read More…]
Louisville group hosts Narcan training session in effort to slow overdose deaths
By Molly Jett LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A training seminar was held to teach people how to administer Naloxone, also known as Narcan, in Louisville on Tuesday night. The group 502 Revolution held a training session with Kentucky Harm Reduction Coalition on how to administer Narcan on Baxter Avenue. Nearly 2,000 Kentuckians[Read More…]
FDA acts to restrict illicit import of xylazine, animal tranquilizer linked to overdose deaths
BY KERRY BREEN The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that it was taking action to restrict unlawful importing of the veterinary drug xylazine, which has been “increasingly found” in the nation’s illicit drug supply. The action, an import alert, allows for the detainment of shipments of xylazine and the[Read More…]
CNN documentary with Louisville ties sheds light on a missing piece of opioid crisis
By Kirby Adams | Louisville Courier Journal An in-depth documentary that sheds new light on how the opioid crisis has impacted America — including in Louisville — will soon make its television debut. On Sunday, investigative journalist Darren Foster’s acclaimed documentary, “American Pain,” airs at 9 p.m. on CNN. The film[Read More…]
AG Daniel Cameron launches Operation Fight Fentanyl to combat opioid epidemic
BY KATIE FORCADE | KENTUCKY COVINGTON, Ky. — Attorney General Daniel Cameron was joined by other experts and advocates on Wednesday to launch Operation Fight Fentanyl with a roundtable discussion on tackling the drug crisis and a chance to hear from Kentuckians themselves impacted. What You Need To Know Fentanyl overdoses are[Read More…]
Cameron outlines opioid settlement’s impact on Kentucky
Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced today that Kentucky will receive $460 million from a settlement with several pharmaceutical companies. Cameron outlined plans to put the funding toward substance-abuse treatment, prevention and other programs related to opioid abuse in order to combat the addiction crisis. “There is hardly a family anywhere[Read More…]