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Giving nurse practitioners the authority to prescribe buprenorphine has brought that gold standard treatment for opioid addiction to people who might not have had access to it before, according to a new study led by Tracy Klein, PhD, associate professor at the Washington State University College of Nursing in Vancouver.
Read moreThe risk of death is high for people who visit the emergency department (ED) for alcohol use, and the risk
Read moreAnalysis of Oregon data shows nurse practitioners accounted for one in five buprenorphine prescriptions in rural areas; one in three in frontier areas
Read moreYouth opioid overdose deaths increasingly involve cocaine
Read moreA University of South Florida Health study is one of the first to assess barriers resident physicians face in prescribing buprenorphine, the FDA-approved medication for opioid use disorder, and their attitudes toward opioid addiction
Read moreResearch team receives $7.25 million from NIH to begin testing new drug
Read moreore than 1.1 million Medicare patients could die over the next decade because they cannot afford to pay for their prescription medications, according to a new study released today by the West Health Policy Center, a nonprofit and nonpartisan policy research group and Xcenda, the research arm of the drug distributor AmerisourceBergen.
Read moreNew Haven, Conn. — A drug once used to treat high blood pressure can help alcoholics with withdrawal symptoms reduce
Read moreBeneficiaries skipping medications is causing early death and worsening medical conditions that will cost Medicare an extra $177.4 billion over the next 10 years
Read moreCigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States, according to federal government data — and some smokers find it nearly impossible to quit. Many of these smokers use regular, or combustible, cigarettes.
Read moreIn the United States alone, over 14 million adults suffer from alcohol use disorder. For those that seek treatment, 90%
Read moreUIC gets $3.3 million to study tobacco burden, expand smoking cessation program
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