The University of Maryland School of Dentistry is taking steps to curb opioid misuse using new software paired with a state database.According to the American Dental Association, dentists write about ...

The new budget deal dedicates millions of dollars to fighting the state's heroin crisis.Click to view News 9's coverage.The money will help fund technology used by doctors to get a handle on addiction ...

We look at how life insurers use prescription-drug databases to assess your health and how well you’re managing medical ...

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SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — By the time the 59-year-old woman overdosed in the late summer of 2013, she’d been given 75 prescriptions by three primary care doctors, a psychiatrist and a pain specialist in ...

The Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Center of Excellence at Brandeis University has issued a ground-breaking report recommending that medical insurers use prescription monitoring data to reduce ...

After you see a doctor, he or she gains access to all the prescriptions you're taking, which is necessary for proper care. However, that prescription history is valuable to many companies as well.

Drug-related deaths in Australia have almost doubled over the past ten years, in large part because of the increased use of opioids. In 2016, middle aged people using combinations of prescription ...