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Bridge Michigan (16 Jan 2024)
More problems with how Michigan is working to spend its share of the opioid settlement funds.
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AHCJ (27 Nov 2023)
Reporting on addiction accurately and ethically Our webinar with the Association of Health Care Journalists, a resource hub for health journalists. Reporting on addiction accurately and ethicallyIn this webinar, learn how to avoid some of the most common errors reporters make when covering drug addiction.Association of Health Care JournalistsKatti
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AHCJ (10 Nov 2023)
‘Offensive’ news about opioids in Appalachia prompts launch of website aimed at improving addiction coverage Our conversation with the Association of Health Care Journalists, a resource hub for health journalists. ‘Offensive’ news about opioids in Appalachia prompts launch of website aimed at improving addiction coverageDo you cover drug addiction in
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The National Desk📽️ (19 October 2023)
Lack of transparency concerns over billions in opioid settlement money distributions 10 minutes📽️ Republished: KHGI-TV (Kearney, NE) WGME-TV (Portland, ME) WEAR-TV (Pensacola, FL) WJLA-TV (Arlington, VA) KDBC-TV (El Paso, TX) KOKH-TV (Oklahoma City, OK) WCTI-TV (New Bern, NC) WHP-TV (Harrisburg, PA) WSYX-TV (Columbus, OH) KFDM-TV (Beaumont, TX) KRCG-TV (New Bloomfield,
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The National Desk📽️ (10 October 2023)
$52 billion debate: The best way to spend opioid lawsuit settlement money? 10 minutes📽️ Republished: WZTV-TV (Nashville, TN) KMEG-TV (Dakota Dunes, SD) KSNV-TV (Las Vegas, NV) WCIV-TV (Mount Pleasant, SC) WCHS-TV (Charleston, WV) KIMA-TV (Yakima, WA) KPTM-TV (Omaha, NE) WEAR-TV (Pensacola, FL) WYME-TV (Gainesville, FL) KHGI-TV (Kearney, NE) KTVO-TV (Kirksville,
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AHCJ (10 October 2023)
‘Offensive’ news about opioids in Appalachia prompts launch of website aimed at improving addiction coverageDo you cover drug addiction in your community? If so, you should be aware of how, among other things, word choice leads to more evidence-based, factual reporting. ReportingOnAddiction.org offers journalists some guidance.Association of Health
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WVU Magazine (2023)
With Purpose: Reporting on Addiction "The language journalists use must be precise, must be fair and above all, do no harm. In reporting on addiction for the last several decades, the media — both print and broadcast — have used language dealing with the disease that breaks all of those rules,
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The Cap Times (7 Aug 2023)
Addiction-treating drug still seldom prescribed in ERs, study finds Talking about the massive gaps in prescribing evidence-based lifesaving treatment for opioid addiction: 💡The 7.6% prescribing rate is still far below the (roughly) 100% it should beSupport Our Work ❤️Addiction-treating drug still seldom prescribed in ERs, study findsIt’s now
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The Open Notebook (16 May 2023)
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ideastream (5 May 2023)
Emergency opioid overdose boxes installed at Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority residences Highlighting the unnecessary and costly purchase of Naloxboxes. They are charging $100's for plastic boxes to hold naloxone. We must stop the rampant profiteering and use money to support evidence-based, cost-effective solutions to this crisis.
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STAT News (17 April 2023)
OTC naloxone is a baby step toward making the life-saving medication accessible Critiquing profiteering by naloxone manufacturers and proposing solutions to fix this issue.