![House Subcommittee Hears Personal Stories of the Opioid Epidemic]()
by Shelby Fleig | Apr 19, 2018 | Featured, Health
Brian Mendell committed suicide at age 25 because he was ashamed of his opioid addiction, despite not having used drugs in more than a year, his father told a House subcommittee Thursday as he demanded that Congress pass laws to fight the epidemic. Mendell is one of...
by Cailin Crowe | Apr 13, 2018 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Cleveland, introduced legislation to combine addiction recovery programs with job training to address Ohio’s labor shortage caused by the state’s opioid epidemic. The U.S. Labor Department says an average of 11 Ohio residents...
by Ricky Zipp | Mar 23, 2018 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump appeared in New Hampshire on Monday to reaffirm the importance of solving the opioid crisis and announce new strategies for dealing with the problem. The president’s speech primarily focused on stricter law enforcement...
by David Thill | Mar 23, 2018 | Featured, Health
Dying – perhaps not unlike waking up early or going to school – is one of those things that almost no one seems to want to do but everyone has to do eventually (at least for now). Still, it’s quite a difficult topic of conversation. It was, however, a topic of...
by David Thill | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — There’s little, if any, debate about using prescription opioids to treat severe acute pain, cancer pain, end-of-life pain or similar conditions. When used wisely, these drugs can spare seriously ill patients from weeks or months of excruciating...
by David Thill | Mar 6, 2018 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – The good news is that flu season has finally peaked. Outpatient visits for influenza-like illness dropped from 6.4 percent of all recorded visits to 5 percent during the eighth week of the year, according to the latest data from the federal Centers...
