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Do Your Part to Curb Pennsylvania’s Opioid Crisis
A tool launched by Gov. Tom Wolf and Attorney General Josh Shapiro last year will empower Pennsylvanians to report questionable prescription drug activity. The suspicious activity report form, part of the state’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Tool (PDMP), can be found...
How to Tell if a Friend is Misusing Opioids: Do Your Part to Combat the Opioid Epidemic
The numbers and facts surrounding the opioid epidemic in our country are staggering. Much of the data suggest that young people are more susceptible to opioid misuse than ever. More than two-thirds of people in drug treatment for opioids reported their first use of...
The Opioid Epidemic: How WellSpan is Making a Difference
The opioid epidemic continues to escalate across the U.S. and within communities in Pennsylvania. Opioid addiction is a chronic disease and its proper clinical designation is opioid use disorder, or OUD. This disease doesn’t discriminate. It can affect anyone,...
How to Help a Loved One with an Opioid Addiction
The opioid crisis has taken its toll on many Pennsylvania families and others across the country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that nearly 18 out of 100 Americans have used illicit drugs or misused prescription medications. An average of 115...
6 Pain-Relief Alternatives to Opioids
Doctors are working to ensure the safe use of opioid-based prescription medications as a first line of pain control, particularly for chronic pain sufferers. Some health care professionals and patients are exploring the use of complementary and alternative treatments...
Healthy Mothers and Babies in PA: The Need for Obstetric and NICU Services
Each year, more than 135,000 babies are born in Pennsylvania hospitals. Care of childbearing women and their newborns is by far the leading reason for hospitalization in the U.S. This makes perfect sense considering that roughly 99 percent of American mothers give...
The Opioid Crisis: What You Can Do
The Pennsylvania Department of Health has reported the prescription opioid and heroin overdose epidemic to be the worst public health crisis in the state. The fact that more Pennsylvanians die from opioid overdoses than vehicle accidents is staggering. The opioid...
Pa. Hospitals Have Several Drug-Disposal Options Available
The opioid epidemic has impacted too many lives. We know this all too well in Pennsylvania, where 36.5 fatal overdoses occurred in 2016 per 100,000 people, a 37 percent increase from 2015. Opioid addiction often begins with prescription medication. Therefore, it’s...
National Hospital Week: Baby Cuddlers at UPMC
May 7-13 is National Hospital Week. It's dedicated to recognizing the efforts of countless hospital employees, including volunteers, who work hard to provide care to others. Sometimes there are no words to express the feeling of making a difference in another’s...