Milwaukee County officials unveiled a new digital dashboard Tuesday to monitor opioid overdoses and direct resources to areas most in need. The initiative was announced at the King Community Center in ...

Lifesaving or wasteful? Opinion is divided on the ways local communities are using opioid settlement funds. Survivors of the ...

Naloxone can be used to reduce an opioid overdose. It's a valuable tool to help people, said Opioid Policy Institute Director Jonathan Stoltman, but some communities spend opioid settlement money on ...

Overall, there were 52, 586 opioid-naive Medicare beneficiaries discharged to SNFs after hip fracture hospitalizations with a mean age of 85.7 years and a mean SNF length of stay being 47.9 days.

Ezell Ruffin, a counselor, restocks the supply of Naloxone in a vending machine at the Linn County Mental Health Access Center, 501 13th St. NW, in Cedar Rapids on June 28, 2024. The machine dispenses ...

A new research letter published in JAMA Health Forum highlights major gaps in how opioid use is tracked among older adults receiving post-acute care under Medicare. Researchers found that Medicare ...

A bill proposed in this year’s Maryland General Assembly would require more transparency with how local government agencies spend money received from opioid case ...