ARIZONA OVERDOSE NEWS & STATISTICS: AZ Capitol Times, Overdose: Click Here Arizona Department of Health Services: Real Time Opioid Data For the first time, statewide opioid data is available in real time. Click Here National Institute on Drug Abuse Get Data for Arizona on Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths, Opioid Pain Reliever Prescriptions, Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS),…

Arizona sues Insys Therapeutics, three doctors over improper marketing and prescribing of synthetic opioid “Arizona has joined the list of states accusing Chandler-based Insys Therapeutics of improperly marketing Subsys, a powerful synthetic opioid spray. In addition to Insys, the Arizona lawsuit named three top-prescribing doctors — Steve Fanto, Nikesh Seth and Sheldon Gingerich — who…

Did you know? Alcohol is the leading cause of preventable birth defects and developmental disabilities in the United States. Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can cause a baby to be born with birth defects and/or developmental disabilities. Babies exposed to alcohol in the womb can develop Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs). These disorders include a wide…

OPIOID RECOVERY TREATMENT & PRIVACY Read an interview with OCR Director Roger Severino in the October 2018 OCR Civil Rights Division Newsletter – PDF. In the interview Director Severino discusses OCR’s response to the opioid crisis and the important nondiscrimination laws that may protect individuals with an opioid use disorder. Watch the new OCR video  on the Opioid Public…

“We found that people who got tramadol were just as likely as people who got hydrocodone or oxycodone to continue using opioids past the point where their surgery pain would have been expected to be resolved,” said senior author Molly Jeffery, PhD, scientific director, Division of Emergency Medicine Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. “This doesn’t tie…