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Pilot Testing Fentanyl Test Strip Distribution in an Emergency Department Setting: Experiences, Lessons Learned, and Suggestions from Staff
CONCLUSIONS: Implementing FTS distribution may improve patient rapport while providing patients with tools to avoid a fentanyl overdose. Participants generally reported positive experiences distributing FTS within the ED but the barriers they identified limited opportunities to make distribution more integrated into their workflow. EDs considering this intervention should train staff on FTS, how to identify and train patients, and explore mechanisms to routinize distribution in the ED environment.PMID:36333960 | DOI:10.1111/acem.14624
Source: Accident and Emergency Nursing - November 5, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Megan K Reed Venise J Salcedo TingAnn Hsiao Tracy Esteves Camacho Amanda Salvatore Anne Siegler Kristin L Rising Source Type: research

Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?
We described above how changes in opioid policy aimed at reducing Washington State’s Medicaid and Workers Compensation costs contributed to an increase in methadone deaths between 2003 and late 2014 (23-25). Focusing on similar cost reductions, the Centers for Medicar e and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rules for 2019 including several directives intended to reduce " Opioid Overutilization, ” including adoption of the “90 morphine milligram equivalent (MME) threshold cited by the 2016 CDC Opioid Guideline (147, 148). Simply put, reduced prescribing reduces costs for prescribed medications.Chou received research fu...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 12, 2022 Category: Palliative Care Tags: health policy judy kollas opioids research schechtman Source Type: blogs

Addressing stimulant use disorder through state opioid response grants from the substance abuse and mental health services administration: Missouri's initial approach
Conclusions: Recent federally funded efforts to better address stimulant use in Missouri have increased access to evidence-based treatment and harm reduction resources. Lessons learned from early implementation, especially those regarding time allowed for program development and how best to ensure equitable resource distribution, will inform future stimulant-focused program efforts.PMID:35881885 | DOI:10.1080/00952990.2022.2097917
Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse - July 26, 2022 Category: Addiction Authors: Rachel P Winograd Jeremiah Weinstock Aaron Ruiz Bridget Coffey Katherine Brown Rithvik Kondai Elizabeth Connors Christine Smith Source Type: research

The Impact of Supervised Consumption Services on Fentanyl-related Deaths: Lessons Learned from Alberta's Provincial Data
Can J Psychiatry. 2021 Mar 19:706743721999571. doi: 10.1177/0706743721999571. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:33739168 | DOI:10.1177/0706743721999571
Source: Canadian Journal of Psychiatry - March 19, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tyler Marshall Adam Abba-Aji Robert Tanguay Andrew J Greenshaw Source Type: research

5 Year Old New Jersey Girl Died from the MMR Vaccine, Holly’s Law Created
Conclusion We leave you with words from Robin: “My family and I hope that Holly’s story will make a difference and help you realize that you must be aware of the risks of vaccinations, just as you make yourself aware of the risks of any medical procedure. We hope to make change, and one very important improvement must be that the pediatricians acknowledge that there are vaccine reactions, that moderate to serious and even fatal vaccine reactions do exist and occur at least 100 times more than is reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).  We are still very disappointed and disgusted with the actio...
Source: vactruth.com - September 24, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Human Top Stories adverse reactions Holly Marie Stavola Holly's Law MMR vaccine National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) Robin Stavola truth about vaccines Vaccine Death VAERS Source Type: blogs

Why I am a Crusader in the Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Drug Movement
Conclusion The doctors gave my daughter drugs they knew would cause her kidneys to stop working. They gave her these drugs in spite of both of us telling them on a day-to-day basis not to give them. The hospital covered it up. The hospital refused to give us the incident report. The hospital refused to give us a copy of the notes from the meeting with the ethics committee. The hospital denied my daughter’s right to make her own decisions. The hospital tried to deny me from being my daughter's advocate. The hospital administrator threatened to charge me with practicing medicine without a license. The CEO refused to talk t...
Source: vactruth.com - September 11, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Jim O'Kelly Tags: Case Reports on Vaccine Injury Human Jim O'Kelly Top Stories truth about vaccines Vaccine Death Source Type: blogs

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