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Reporting on health and medical topics inevitably involves minefields, especially in topics already rife with stigma, such as mental health.…
State-run electronic databases that collect opioid prescription information are being hailed as an effective tool to curb opioid abuse in…
As authorities search for ways to curb the nation’s opioid epidemic, an increasing number of localities are turning to a…
The most recent edition of The Associated Press Stylebook – the premier guide for copy editors – has a number…
No fewer than four of the 2016 winners of the Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism covered the opioid…
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Too many physicians are prescribing opioid medications for hospitalized older adults who may not need them. A new study found…
Lack of work, educational gaps, despair, overprescribing – there’s a host of reasons behind the nation’s opioid crisis. It may…
In two days in December, the Charleston Gazette-Mail published two blockbuster articles about the opioid crisis in West Virginia, the…
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In response to the nation’s epidemic of opioid addiction, health care leaders including U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy have urged…
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In-depth investigations into heroin and pain-pill abuse drew several top awards in this year’s Awards for Excellence in Health Care…