Tag: Opioid crisis
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Nation & World
New tool models evolution of opioid crisis
To help combat the opioid crisis, researchers have developed a tool, known as SOURCE, which taps national data on opioids to track stages of use and misuse, including use initiation, treatment, relapse, and death by overdose.
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Nation & World
Fed up with baby steps amid ‘tsunami of overdose death’
Sarah Wakeman says that CDC report highlights need for U.S. to radically rethink response to opioid epidemic.
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Nation & World
Faster testing for illicit drugs
The landscape of the illegal drug trade changes constantly, particularly amid the current opioid crisis. Law-enforcement officers regularly find or confiscate pills, powders, and other substances and need to know…
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Nation & World
Brokering an opioid settlement
Alexandra Lahav, a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, explains how a global settlement could handle the more than 2,000 lawsuits filed against drug companies and distributors.
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Nation & World
U.S. needs to back opioid talk with stronger action, former governors say
Ex-governors from Delaware, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, and Vermont traded ideas for fighting the U.S. opioid epidemic during a Harvard forum.
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Nation & World
Putting tomorrow’s doctors on opioid alert
Gov. Charlie Baker joined HMS faculty members in discussing the opioid crisis and the role physician education must play in fighting it.
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Nation & World
Prescription crackdown called crucial in opioid fight
Former Vermont governor and others discussed possible strategies against the U.S. opioid epidemic in a conversation at the JFK Jr. Forum.