Health Care Professionals
July 12, 2022
Educating Third-Year Students on Opioid Use Disorder, Pain Management
An Ohio State researcher discusses a new medical center education program for navigating addiction risk in pain patients.
July 7, 2022
Are Oncology Nurses Underutilized in Positively Affecting the Opioid Epidemic?
Gretchen McNally PhD, ANP-BC, AOCNP, discusses the potential impact advanced practice providers and nurses could have in the opioid pandemic if the correct educational opportunities were available.
June 27, 2022
Supreme Court rules that doctors need to knowingly misprescribe opioids for it to be a crime
The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that prosecutors need to prove that doctors knowingly prescribed drugs in aberrant ways to win convictions against them for unlawful distribution of controlled medicines.
May 4, 2022
Feds: 12 charged for over-prescribing opioids, including in Kentucky and Ohio
CINCINNATI — The U.S. Department of Justice's Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid (ARPO) strike force announced 12 new charges against physicians accused of over-prescribing opioids in a press conference on Wednesday.
April 20, 2022
William Husel, Ohio doctor accused in 14 high-dose fentanyl deaths, acquitted of murder
An Ohio doctor was acquitted Wednesday of hastening the deaths of multiple critically ill patients by ordering large doses of the powerful painkiller fentanyl.
June 5, 2022
With EMS runs up 6%, Ohio paramedicine program cuts repeat 911 calls, medical contacts
Dayton Fire Department officials say the city's partnership with Premier Health is achieving its goal, but it is only funded through year's end
April 20, 2022
Ohio doctor acquitted on murder charges involving 14 patients prescribed opioids
Columbus-area doctor William Husel was indicted in cases where patients had received fentanyl
April 20, 2022
Ohio Doctor Not Guilty of Murdering Patients With High Opioid Doses
Jurors, once at an impasse, found William Husel, DO, not guilty after a week of deliberations