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Breaking the Opioid Habit in Dentists' Offices

Tina Rosenberg

July 10, 2017 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Oral surgeons and other doctors tend to prescribe opioids to their patients following surgery, which has arguably contributed to a rising number of patients, especially those under the age of 25, developing addictions. Now, thanks to increased awareness and new protocols, doctors and dentists are prescribing fewer opioids and more non-addictive pain killers, as well as educating their patients about their prescriptions.

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How to Beat Asthma

Vann R. Newkirk II

July 05, 2017 |

The Atlantic |

Multi-Media |

Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

Surprisingly, breathing thin air at high altitudes helps some patients with asthma. Other emerging treatments include medicines that suppress the body’s immune response to allergens.

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Selling Doctors on Cutting Drug Costs

Jay Hancock

June 06, 2017 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Albany, New York

Big pharmaceutical companies spend thousands of dollars every year persuading doctors to prescribe their products to patients. Doctors comply, often not realizing that a generic alternative exists or how much the name brand product is costing insurance companies and patients. The Capital District Physicians' Health Plan recruits big pharma drug representatives and hires them to educate doctors about the tactics used to sell them costly products and offer them the cheaper generic options instead. In the first year, these representatives saved patients 5 million dollars just by switching one drug to generic.

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Addiction doc says: It's not the drugs. It's the ACEs – adverse childhood experiences.

Jane Ellen Stevens

May 02, 2017 |

ACES Too High |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States

ACEs quantifies the adverse event in an individual's childhood, as a means to treat addiction. Understanding addiction as resulting from past events helps to treat these individuals through medication and developing a plan to help each patient live a sober life without medications while de-shaming and de-blaming them.

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How to Keep Businesses (and Small Towns) Alive When Owners Retire

Kaela Bamberger

March 29, 2017 |

Yes! Magazine |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Concordia, Kansas

RedTire, short for Redefine Your Retirement, is helping small businesses stay afloat by facilitating transitions in business ownership and acting as a non-profit business broker. The service helps rural communities thrive since small businesses are essential to the vitality of small towns. In its five year history, RedTire has brokered sales that collectively total over $22 million.

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The California Doctors Who Found a Way to Quit Overprescribing Opioids

Sam Quinones

March 08, 2017 |

Kaiser Health News |

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Response Location: United States, California

In 2009 Kaiser Permanente doctors, alarmed by the rising rate of opioids being prescribed to patients, decided to develop a set of strategies and lower painkiller prescriptions. The most difficult one, is talking to patients about the dangers of opiods. He “developed what he calls The Difficult Pain Conversation—and he presented his approach to many other doctors.” So far, its had an effect. Prescriptions dropped from “from 2,500 a month to almost zero.”

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Baltimore turns to a life-saving opioid overdose antidote, but it's no cure for the crisis

Pamela Kirkland

March 01, 2017 |

PBS NewsHour |

Broadcast TV News |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

In Maryland, people are being trained to administer naloxone, the drug that can save people from an opioid overdose, in order to combat the opioid crisis. Some people are even trained on street corners. Already 20,000 people have been trained, and more states are following suit.

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How to Fight a Soaring Drug Price: Innovate

Shefali Luthra

February 28, 2017 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Milbridge, Maine

Throughout the country, issues of health care exclusivity and rising drug prices are being addressed with creative solutions. Innovating new medicines and medicine deliver systems, such as an alternative EpiPen, is proving to be a helpful way to work around these surging prices.

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Can Magic Mushrooms Cure Addiction?

Olga Khazan

February 18, 2017 |

The Atlantic |

Video |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

A mixture of intense therapy and the use of psilocybin—‘magic mushrooms’—has been successful with helping people break nicotine addictions. While many therapies only treat surface symptoms, psilocybin—administered in a controlled environment—seems to have beneficial impacts on brain functioning that eliminate the drivers of addiction.

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Take Three Zucchinis and Call Me in the Morning: The Power of Produce Prescriptions

Brian Barth

February 02, 2017 |

Smithsonian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

A program called FVRx (Fruits and Vegetables Rx) enlists physicians, grocery stores, and the government SNAP program to help make underserved communities healthier. When physicians write prescriptions for fruits and vegetables, families are allotted more money through SNAP to be spent only on fresh produce.

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