Tag: opioid crisis
Whitehouse tours CODAC center to view opioid epidemic impact
PROVIDENCE – While Rhode Island has made significant headway in addressing the opioid crisis, health officials throughout the state say more work is needed...
How R.I. employers can assist in combating opioid crisis
Employers, especially in the health care industry, continue to grapple with how to provide support to employees, clients, patients and family members suffering from...
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...
Opioid plans must have many facets
While it is simple to group the thousands of drug-overdose deaths that have come to Rhode Island as a piece of the opioid crisis,...
SEC: Drug distributor must allow shareholder vote on opioid-related clawback disclosure
PROVIDENCE— State Treasurer Seth Magaziner and national coalition Investors for Opioid Transparency have won an U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ruling that AmerisourceBergen Drug Corp....
R.I. communities sue opioid manufacturers, distributors as public nuisances
PROVIDENCE — Fourteen Rhode Island communities led by Lt. Gov. Dan McKee are filing a public nuisance lawsuit against five of the largest pharmaceutical...
Raimondo’s State of the State expected to cover job creation, school...
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo is expected to give her State of the State address Tuesday evening at 7 p.m.
She is expected to...
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...
UMass Dartmouth to host third substance-use disorder summit
DARTMOUTH – The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s College of Nursing and Leduc Center for Civic Engagement announced in a statement earlier this week they...
HRSA Gives $1.4M to 8 R.I. health centers to fight opioid...
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded a combined $1,405,600 to eight Rhode Island health centers to increase access to...
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