Tag: healthcare

    Many Rural Americans Have No Access to Buprenorphine

    Nearly a third of rural Americans live in a county without access to buprenorphine—the gold ...

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    Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard

    How Stigma Against Addiction Devastates Pain Patients

    First it was a hip replacement. Then it became complicated by a MRSA infection. ...

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    Elizabeth Brico

    Companies Use Patient Data to Generate “Risk Scores” for Their Likelihood of Addiction

    The Food and Drug Administration ended 2018 by awarding Milliman, a health insurance consulting ...

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    Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard

    My Life of Overusing Pills for Back Pain in a Grueling Factory Job

    I have a factory-floor job here in Montreal, Canada. I wake up each morning ...

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    Ray Mwareya

    Fifteen Examples of Discrimination Against People With Substance Use Disorders

    In light of the imminent threats to the confidentiality of substance use disorder patients, ...

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    Alison Knopf

    Confidentiality for Patients With Substance Use Disorders Is Under Threat

    When patients seek treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs)—in a society that stigmatizes and ...

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    Alison Knopf