The Reflections treatment center looked like just the place for Michelle Holley’s youngest daughter to kick heroin. Instead, as with...
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The nation’s largest pharmacy benefit manager will soon limit the number and strength of opioid drugs prescribed to first-time users...
The Travelers Companies, Inc., reported a 30 percent reduction in the use of opioids among the more than 500,000 injured...
In 2015, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 2.9 million non-fatal workplace accidents occurred that year. Of this,...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should review the safety and effectiveness of all opioids, and consider the real-world impacts...
Missouri became the final state to create a prescription drug-monitoring program after Republican Gov. Eric Greitens signed an executive order...
A Texas doctor wrote unnecessary prescriptions for powerful drugs that contributed to the overdose deaths of at least seven people...
As a result of the types of workers’ compensation accidents and injuries that occur, case managers often see a significant...
In a small study of opioid prescriptions filled at a Johns Hopkins Medicine outpatient pharmacy, researchers found that handwritten orders...
Overprescribing of opioid medications for pain has contributed to a record-high number of drug-related deaths in the United States in...