HHS announces over $70 million in grants to address the opioid crisis

01. June 2017 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, M.D., today announced the availability of over $70 million over multiple years to help communities and healthcare providers prevent opioid overdose deaths and provide treatment for opioid use disorder, of which $28 million will be dedicated for medication-assisted treatment (MAT). “Putting an end to the opioid crisis ravaging ...

How a 1980 letter fueled the opioid epidemic – Boston.com

31. May 2017 Health, HIPAA 0
Boston.com How a 1980 letter fueled the opioid epidemicBoston.comNearly 40 years ago, a respected doctor wrote a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine with some very good news: Out of nearly 40,000 patients given powerful pain drugs in a Boston hospital, only four addictions were documented. Doctors had been …How a 5-sentence letter helped ...