Tag: opioids
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New CDC guidelines a ‘corrective’ for opioid prescriptions, specialist says
The CDC updates its 2016 opioid prescribing guidelines, to emphasize flexibility over rigid practices and laws whose aim is to reduce addiction.
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Research suggests role for anthrax in fighting pain
In search for alternatives to opioids, Medical School researchers have hit on an unlikely candidate.
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Learning the hard way
Harvard’s Allan M. Brandt, history of science scholar and “Cigarette Century” author, says opioid negotiators should heed lessons from tobacco settlement.
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Stigma of opioids a hurdle to solving crisis
“Can you think of all the tax dollars it’s cost for you to go to detox?” the doctor asked Raina McMahan when she arrived at the clinic in Revere seeking…
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Specialists take on opioid crisis
A conference sponsored by Harvard and the University of Michigan will examine the role that stigma plays in the nation’s opioid crisis and ways it slows and alters responses.
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Opioid crisis shadows rural America
A Harvard Chan School panel reacted to a report that lists the opioid crisis and the economy as top concerns for Americans in rural areas.
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Where the doctor treats you like a neighbor
MGH Charlestown HealthCare Center was part of the first wave of community health centers that spread across the nation in the late 1960s. This fall it celebrates 50 years of neighborhood care.
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Harvard, U. of Michigan to tackle social ills
Harvard and the University of Michigan have formed two partnerships designed to encourage economic opportunity in struggling Detroit and to fight the national scourge of opioid addiction.
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Pulling our punches in opioid fight
Shelly F. Greenfield of McLean Hospital provides a recap of a Boston summit aimed at generating ideas for attacking the opioid epidemic.
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Opioid epidemic top priority for surgeon general
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said the opioid crisis is his top priority, but that showing the effects of the nation’s poor health on economic growth and national security are also key.
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Advanced Leadership Initiative creates room for innovation
Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative brings 44 top business executives to campus so they can do something off course.
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Nation’s opioid emergency shows in findings on ICUs
Investigators at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center reported a sharp rise in opioid-related admissions and deaths in U.S. intensive care units since 2009.
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Rising threat: Death by fentanyl
Sarah Wakeman, an addiction specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the role of fentanyl in the country’s opioid crisis.
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Improving the odds of beating opioids
Harvard-affiliated researchers have found that a monthlong residential program could be better than standard-of-care outpatient programs in helping young adults stay drug-free.
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New frontier of risk
A recent study by a group of Harvard-affiliated researchers found a sharp increase in the use of opioid painkillers among a large group of pregnant women between 2000 and 2007. Its lead author discussed the findings with the Gazette.