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In states with most overdose deaths, poor patients struggle to find treatment

In states with most overdose deaths, poor patients struggle to find treatment

Poor people with opioid use disorders may struggle to find doctors to prescribe the anti-addiction drug buprenorphine in U.S. states with the highest overdose death rates, a new study suggests. (Source: Reuters: Health)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
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UNDER THE MICROSCOPE: Actress Emilia Fox answers our health quiz 

The 44-year-old, from London, is exercising after a five-year hiatus, eats healthily and loves Niix training – but she’s also addicted to coffee. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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Why Alcohol Companies Are Betting on Non-Alcoholic ‘Booze’

It’s a Wednesday evening in Brooklyn, NY, and bars are dead. Tea-candle-dotted tables sit empty, waiting for a happy hour rush that isn’t. But tucked away on a side street, hours before its midnight closing time, a bar called Getaway hums with activity. Metal straws clink against ice and cocktail shakers rattle as patrons belly up to the marble bar. A woman fresh out of work reads and
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Many Patients Don’t Need Opioids After Surgery

MONDAY, June 3, 2019 — The opioid epidemic has been fueled in part by the overprescribing of painkillers. But a new study finds that up to half of patients may not actually need the addictive pills following a surgery.
The finding could be a… (Source: Drugs.com – Daily MedNews)
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Universal Health plans $33 million mental health hospital in West Allis

A major new competitor will enter metropolitan Milwaukee ’s mental health and addiction-treatment market through a proposed $33 million hospital in West Allis that includes a contract with Milwaukee County for patients with acute mental health conditions.

Universal Health Services plans to build a 120-bed behavioral health hospital at 1706 S. 68th St., the Pennsylvania-based company said Monday
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