/tags/opioid-addiction opioid addiction en-US Copyright Sat, 15 Jun 2024 14:17:19 GMT /health-and-medicine/2024-06-15/addiction-recovery-programs-will-get-13-million-in-opioid-settlement-funds Rural Oregon groups to get opioid settlement funding to set up recovery centers to help people in addiction. Sat, 15 Jun 2024 14:17:19 GMT /health-and-medicine/2024-06-15/addiction-recovery-programs-will-get-13-million-in-opioid-settlement-funds Ben Botkin /health-and-medicine/2024-06-06/mothers-struggling-with-addiction-find-an-oasis-in-southern-oregon The opioid epidemic, boosted by the arrival of the drug fentanyl, has torn through communities in Southern Oregon. It’s also having a devastating impact on mothers struggling with addiction. An innovative facility in the Rogue Valley is helping those parents and their children. Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:22:43 GMT /health-and-medicine/2024-06-06/mothers-struggling-with-addiction-find-an-oasis-in-southern-oregon Justin Higginbottom /health-and-medicine/2023-08-06/repeating-history-norcal-county-plugs-budget-gap-with-opioid-settlement-cash The settlement funds are the result of thousands of lawsuits filed against a host of health care companies, including Johnson & Johnson, McKesson, CVS Health, and Walmart, for aggressively promoting and distributing painkillers. Sun, 06 Aug 2023 14:14:03 GMT /health-and-medicine/2023-08-06/repeating-history-norcal-county-plugs-budget-gap-with-opioid-settlement-cash Aneri Pattani / KFF Health News /health-and-medicine/2023-08-01/spike-in-rogue-valley-fentanyl-deaths-points-to-fourth-wave-of-the-opioid-crisis In mid-July, Jackson County medical examiners identified ten drug overdose deaths in just five days . They believe nine of those deaths were related to the powerful opioid fentanyl. Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:37:09 GMT /health-and-medicine/2023-08-01/spike-in-rogue-valley-fentanyl-deaths-points-to-fourth-wave-of-the-opioid-crisis Roman Battaglia /health-and-medicine/2023-01-30/bills-to-make-naloxone-more-accessible-seek-to-slow-opioid-fatalities-in-oregon One lawmaker said she’s seeing a “skyrocketing” problem of too many people with substance abuse disorder being unable to access treatment and described her bills as a “stopgap” that she said will save lives. Mon, 30 Jan 2023 13:56:52 GMT /health-and-medicine/2023-01-30/bills-to-make-naloxone-more-accessible-seek-to-slow-opioid-fatalities-in-oregon Jake Thomas /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-07-11/a-graphic-look-at-the-opioid-epidemic The opioid epidemic is often associated with Appalachia, but the drugs are all over the country. And the responses to the epidemic are all over the map.… Thu, 11 Jul 2019 17:41:08 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-07-11/a-graphic-look-at-the-opioid-epidemic The �Ϸ��Ӵ�ý Exchange Team /health-and-medicine/2017-05-03/maxs-mission-one-mothers-crusade-to-put-naloxone-pretty-much-everywhere Naloxone is a drug that quickly reverses an overdose of heroin or other opioid drugs. It’s been used by hospitals and emergency medical workers since the… Wed, 03 May 2017 23:16:43 GMT /health-and-medicine/2017-05-03/maxs-mission-one-mothers-crusade-to-put-naloxone-pretty-much-everywhere Liam Moriarty /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2017-02-20/how-naloxone-can-save-overdose-victims The opioid painkiller epidemic took a strange twist when doctors clamped down on the prescription drugs. Users began turning to heroin as a replacement… Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:56:36 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2017-02-20/how-naloxone-can-save-overdose-victims Geoffrey Riley /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2017-01-11/grants-pass-brings-opioid-addiction-treatment-home Addictions to opioid prescription drugs are all too common in America. But facilities to treat people who've become addicted can be harder to find. Grants… Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:45:17 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2017-01-11/grants-pass-brings-opioid-addiction-treatment-home Geoffrey Riley