HHS Leaders Call for Expanded Use of Medications to Combat Opioid Overdose

HHS leaders call for expanded use of medications to combat opioid overdose
The authors stress the value of these medications and describe reasons why treatment services have been slow to utilize them. The reasons include inadequate provider education and misunderstandings about addiction medications by the public, health care …
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Boston to shutter drug treatment facility
The move is designed, in part, to shift $ 300,000 in city spending on the clinic to the proposed Office of Recovery Services, which Mayor Martin J. Walsh envisions as an umbrella agency to address a wide range of substance abuse and prevention needs …
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