Tribal Lands To Get Funding Boost To Curb Opioid Crisis
March 9, 2018 | Sammy Caiola
California is investing in new medication and physician training for American Indian communities.
March 9, 2018 | Sammy Caiola
California is investing in new medication and physician training for American Indian communities.
August 17, 2017 | Sammy Caiola
Following President Trump's declaration of a national opioid crisis, California health leaders discuss telemedicine as a solution to the problem.
June 15, 2017 | Ali Budner
Plumas County has California's highest death rate from prescription opioid overdoses. This year the state made it legal for schools to stock the overdose reversal drug, but that might be easier said than done in Plumas.
April 28, 2017 | Sally Schilling
The state aims to boost support for physicians to prescribing opioid addiction treatment drugs.
April 28, 2017
Nevada is receiving $5.6 million from the federal government to combat an opioid crisis largely stemming from addiction to prescription painkillers.
March 15, 2017
The Nevada Department of Corrections has announced it is launching a program to combat opiate addiction in two state prisons.
March 1, 2017 | Steve Milne
Democratic State Assemblymember Kevin McCarty of Sacramento wants to impose a one-cent per milligram surcharge on prescription opioids. The fee would pay for drug addiction prevention, treatment and rehabilitation programs.