State, Local Agencies Team Up to Find the Antidote to Drug Overdoses

State, local agencies team up to find the antidote to drug overdoses

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Maryland Prescription Drug Monitoring Program aims to both reduce doctor shopping and to allow doctors to check patients' prescription history in order to refer addicted patients to appropriate treatment, according to Michael Baier, the coordinator of …
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Health officials blame heroin for spike in Maryland overdose deaths

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The state is hosting education programs for medical workers treating people for opioid abuse; training individuals to administer naloxone, a prescription drug that can intervene with a person's ability to absorb heroin during an overdose; and …
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When Prescribing Antibiotics, Doctors Most Often Choose Strongest Types of …

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Hersh, Andrew T. Pavia, M.D., also an infectious disease expert and professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah, Lauri A. Hicks, D.O., a medical epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and University of California …
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