MedCity News June 16, 2020
While solving the opioid epidemic is a long-lead mission, now compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic, we can continue to make progress by implementing the right technological tools to help address underlying issues associated with behavioral health.
Decades after it began, the opioid epidemic is still affecting communities across the United States. Nationally, overdose deaths fell slightly last year for the first time since the 1990s, but some states saw increases, particularly with illicit synthetic opioids like fentanyl, cocaine and stimulants like meth. And while the opioid epidemic is still and will remain a challenge, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought a host of new challenges. According to an article recently published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, there will likely be short...