Public Health
Drug Epidemics, Part 2
We might have been making things more difficult for the patients we wanted to help. This is not unknown in healthcare.
Topics: addiction medications, epidemiology, prescription medications
Hospital Follies
The notorious revolving door wasn’t entirely due to the patient’s desire to avoid change– the hospital couldn’t get them out the front door fast enough.
Topics: health care, intervention, SBIRT, stigma
Methadone for Chronic Pain?
Diversion to abuse has been significant. Currently methadone represents only some two percent of all opioid prescriptions, but it’s been implicated in an astounding one-third of all opioid fatalities.
Topics: addiction medications, mortality, opioids, pain, prescription medications
The Rumor Mill: “Killer Rehab”?
Either way, it’s the drugs and alcohol that wind up killing the addict — not abstinence.
Topics: MAT, mortality, opioids, relapse
Intervention at the ER? Can it Work?
If we could reach them now, the process might well be interrupted. Preventing a host of more serious problems — some of them fatal to other people, or the user himself.
Topics: assessment, health care, intervention, physicians, SBIRT, signs and symptoms
