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A Guide For Companies That Want To Fight The Stigma Around Opioid Addiction

July 15, 2020 by ATForum

While the entire globe has been focused on battling COVID-19, our nation’s ongoing opioid crisis has not disappeared. In fact, it may be worsening. Early data from the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program, a federally funded national surveillance tool, shows that drug overdoses are increasing during the pandemic, and local medical and law enforcement … [Read more...] about A Guide For Companies That Want To Fight The Stigma Around Opioid Addiction

How To Reignite The Fight Against The Nation’s Opioid Epidemic

July 15, 2020 by ATForum

In an op-ed published in Morning Consult, AMA Immediate Past President Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA, wrote that there remains an urgent need to remove health insurers’ barriers to evidence-based treatment for patients with pain and substance-use disorders, enforcing mental health and substance-use disorder parity, and other actions necessary if the epidemic is going to … [Read more...] about How To Reignite The Fight Against The Nation’s Opioid Epidemic

With Over 1,000 Connecticut Deaths Last Year, Opioids Demand Even Greater Attention During Pandemic

July 15, 2020 by ATForum

For opioid drug users, the COVID-19 pandemic adds crisis on top of crisis. Physiologically, opioid users may be more vulnerable to health complications related to COVID-19 because of compromised respiratory and pulmonary health. Socially, since opioid addiction is a disease of isolation, the social isolation under the pandemic may cause people to relapse and increases the risk … [Read more...] about With Over 1,000 Connecticut Deaths Last Year, Opioids Demand Even Greater Attention During Pandemic

Two Friends Survive Covid-19 To Return To The Front Lines Of America’s Other Health Crisis | Commentary

July 15, 2020 by ATForum

Here in Baltimore, Our City of Perpetual Recovery, Steve Dixon and Antoine Kittrell have been through a lot together. They are friends. They are survivors. They have now twice recovered from threats to their lives — first from addiction to heroin and now from the virus that has killed more than 134,000 of our fellow Americans in less than six months. Dixon and Kittrell work … [Read more...] about Two Friends Survive Covid-19 To Return To The Front Lines Of America’s Other Health Crisis | Commentary

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