As communities grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers were still in the midst of a different crisis: the opioid epidemic. Stay-at-home orders affected treatment… Read more
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Study Finds Inappropriate Opioid Prescribing is Common Among Dentists – but There’s a Movement to Change That
Older adults are more likely to be managing a few different health issues at any given time, which means they often end up with prescriptions… Read more
Four Steps to Continue Tele-Addiction Treatment Growth Post-COVID-19
To date, over 170,000 people in the United States have died from COVID-19. In addition to deaths from the virus, 150,000 more “deaths of despair,”… Read more
Supporting Family with Substance Use Disorders
When thinking about how to address the opioid epidemic and substance use disorders (SUDs), which affect more than 20 million U.S. citizens in any given… Read more
UPMC Mercy’s ED Has Your Back
Dr. Michael Lynch, medical director at the Pittsburgh Poison Center and substance use disorder services at UPMC Health Plan, has made medication-assisted treatment (MAT) a… Read more