Doctors who say no to opioid use face threats from patients
One patient threatened to shoot Dr. Terry Hunt if physical therapy didn’t relieve his pain as effectively as opioids did.
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Medical terms for opioid addiction don’t always reduce stigma, study finds
Opioid addiction is persistently stigmatized, delaying and preventing treatment for many—an urgent problem with overdose deaths continuing to rise. To
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US sues Walmart over opioid crisis
The US Justice Department sued Walmart over its role in the opioid crisis on Tuesday, alleging the giant retailer wrongly
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Nurse practitioners play key role in opioid addiction treatment in very rural areas
Giving nurse practitioners the authority to prescribe buprenorphine has brought that gold standard treatment for opioid addiction to people who
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Women in criminal justice system less likely to receive treatment for opioid use
Pregnant women involved in the criminal justice system are disproportionately not receiving medications for opioid use disorder, as compared to
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Gaps remain in rural opioid crisis research
Rural areas have been hit hard by the opioid crisis, but few studies have been done to understand how to
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Gender-tailored treatment could ease opioid epidemic
Gender-tailored methods to address the harmful mental health effects of childhood adversity may help alleviate the current opioid crisis and
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