An ER that treats opioids like an emergency
A study found that addicted patients who were given buprenorphine in the emergency room were twice as likely to be in treatment a month later...
Facing addicts with ruined hearts, doctors confront tough ethical questions VIEW
With meth resurgent and the opioid crisis showing no sign of abating, more people are developing endocarditis from injecting drugs — sometimes repeatedly if they...
The CHIP program is beloved. Why is its funding in danger?
The Children’s Health Insurance Program, which has had unusually strong bipartisan support since it was created in 1997, is now in limbo — an unexpected...
Opioid prescriptions on the decline nationally since 2010 peak
Nationally, the analysis found that the amount of opioids prescribed fell 18 percent from 2010-15, though it increased in 23 percent of the counties.
Life-changing services at risk for millions if Medicaid is cut
Optional benefits received by millions, many of them disabled, would be at risk under Republican proposals to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Pre-existing conditions are key to Democrats’ health-bill battle
A blast of grass-roots energy against the Republican bill has been generated by a single clause, which Democrats have vowed to make a campaign issue.
Patients with pre-existing conditions fear new plan to repeal Obamacare
The complex amendment to the Republican health-care bill has stunned Americans with cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other illnesses who rely on the Affordable Care...