Posted inMental Health & Addiction Mission Detox takes new name and will soon provide opioid withdrawal services by Andy Steiner 06/24/201902/06/2024
Posted inSecond Opinion Driven by suicides and drug overdoses, U.S. life expectancy continues to fall by Susan Perry 11/30/201802/06/2024
Posted inState Government Why some Minnesota lawmakers are confident they can get an opioid bill passed in 2019 by Peter Callaghan 11/20/201802/06/2024
Posted inSecond Opinion Many Americans have misconceptions about opioids, Mayo Clinic survey finds by Susan Perry 10/23/201802/06/2024
Posted inSecond Opinion Life expectancy in U.S. falls; opioids and other ‘deaths of despair’ explain part of the drop by Susan Perry 08/20/201808/20/2018
Posted inSecond Opinion Despite increased awareness, opioid prescriptions are not declining, Mayo study finds by Susan Perry 08/03/2018
Posted inCommunity Voices Advancing the conversation about prescription opioid misuse and abuse by Sam Vitiello 05/17/201805/17/2018
Posted inForeign Concept The opioid epidemic is a global problem. And it’s getting worse by Mark Porubcansky 05/07/201805/07/2018
Posted inSecond Opinion What does the groundbreaking Minnesota study on opioids mean for patients? A Q&A with its lead author by Susan Perry 03/12/201803/12/2018
Posted inSecond Opinion Four new opioid reports and studies reveal how serious the crisis is — and how it got that way by Susan Perry 03/08/201802/06/2024
Posted inPolitics & Policy Add to the list of people hit by the opioid epidemic in Minnesota: medical examiners by Greta Kaul 11/13/201711/13/2017
Posted inSecond Opinion Over-the-counter drugs as effective as opioids at reducing pain from certain injuries, study finds by Susan Perry 11/09/201711/09/2017
Posted inSecond Opinion CDC: Gun-related deaths in U.S. climb for second straight year by Susan Perry 11/06/201711/06/2017
Posted inHealth It’s not just opioids: ‘Diseases of despair’ claim a growing number of Minnesotan lives by Greta Kaul 09/21/2017
Posted inPolitics & Policy We know that prescriptions are helping drive the opioid epidemic. So why are some Minnesota counties’ opioid prescription rates going up? by Greta Kaul 08/30/201707/29/2020
Posted inCommunity Voices Meth in Minnesota revisited: It requires an unrelenting, organized response by Carol Falkowski 06/13/201706/13/2017
Posted inSecond Opinion Surge in new hepatitis C cases is driven by opioid epidemic, CDC reports by Susan Perry 05/15/201705/15/2017
Posted inSecond Opinion U of M study: opioid epidemic poses specific dangers for reproductive-age women by Susan Perry 03/13/201703/13/2017
Posted inSecond Opinion Rate of children hospitalized for prescription opioid poisonings jumps almost twofold in 16 years by Susan Perry 11/01/201608/03/2018
Posted inPolitics & Policy Minnesota has a prescription drug database that could help reduce opioid overdoses — if doctors would use it by Greta Kaul 06/15/201609/04/2018