Tag: Fentanyl
Brown University awarded grants to reduce opioid overdoses
PROVIDENCE (AP) — Brown University was awarded $6.8 million in federal funding to work with Rhode Island health officials to help solve the opioid...
Insys files for bankruptcy, overcome by opioid liabilities
NEW YORK – Insys Therapeutics Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection after agreeing to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to settle a related probe...
Five Questions With Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott
5Q: Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott | Director, R.I. Department of Health 1. What do residents who live in a state-designated “health equity zone” get that...
Brown study: Fentanyl test strips effectively reduce young-adult opioid overdoses
PROVIDENCE — Brown University's School of Public Health researchers report fentanyl test strips are effective in preventing opioid overdoses and that community-based organizations would...
Advocates to distribute street drug tests for fentanyl throughout R.I. Friday
PROVIDENCE — Public health advocates, including representatives of Preventing Overdose and Naloxone Intervention at The Miriam Hospital, will distribute street drug test strips for...
DOH: Opioid deaths decline 5% in 2017
PROVIDENCE – Opioid deaths in Rhode Island decreased 5.1 percent year over year in 2017, according to the R.I. Department of Health Monday. There were...
Rosenberg sentenced to 4 years for Subsys prescription scam
PROVIDENCE – Dr. Jerrold N. Rosenberg, 62, of North Providence, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell Jr. Friday to four...
R.I. reports 9% drop in overdose deaths from January – August...
PROVIDENCE — As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report showing the 2016 national number of overdose deaths at 63,600, 21...
Rosenberg pleads guilty to fraud, kickback conspiracy in Subsys prescription scam
PROVIDENCE - Jerrold N. Rosenberg, 62, of North Providence, indicted in U.S. District Court in February on health care fraud and conspiring to solicit and...
NaloxBox an antidote for overdoses
Dr. Geoff Capraro wants to give bystanders the tools to save lives in the event of an overdose. That’s the idea behind NaloxBox LLC, which...
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