Team reveals cost-effective and life-saving treatment for nation’s opioid disorder epidemic
Expanding access to a treatment that combines medication and counseling for opioid addiction may generate significant cost savings while also saving many lives, according to a study by researchers at Stanford and the Veterans Health Administration.
Opioid use disorder (OUD) has become a public health crisis and is a significant cause of morbidity, death, lost productivity and excess costs to the criminal justice system. At least 2 million people in the United States have a substance use disorder related to prescription opioid pain medication.
“Opioid overdoses in the United states likely reached a record high in 2020 because of COVID-19 increasing substance use, exacerbating stress and social isolation, and interfering with opioid treatment,” the researchers write in their original investigation in
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By MELISSA HARTMAN | The Santa Cruz Sentinel | Published: March 6, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. SANTA CRUZ Local military veteran Jim McBurney described getting inoculated through Veterans Affairs as an operation with military precision. In the wake of limited vaccine supply across the state of California, hundreds of Santa Cruz veterans such as McBurney are turning to nearby VA clinics for their shots. According to information provided to the Sentinel by VA Palo Alto Health Care System public affairs specialist Michael Hill-Jackson, residents in almost every city in the county have turned to the VA to be vaccinated. More than 800 Santa Cruz County veterans have taken advantage of having another vaccine route from their military background.
By GCN Staff
Mar 02, 2021
The Department of Veterans Affairs is installing 5G networks at its Miami and Puget Sound health care facilities.
Working with T-Mobile, which currently provides the in-building 4G LTE wireless connectivity at the Miami Health Care System, the VA will install in-building 5G radios for 2.5 GHz spectrum to deliver speeds of 300 megabit/sec with peaks up to 1 gigabit/sec.
The faster network will allow medical teams to quickly move and access large, complex data files, such as imaging results, labs and medical charts, without having to be tethered to a computer, the company said.
T-Mobile already provides up to 70,000 lines of wireless service to doctors, nurses and hospital staff across VA hospitals and has helped enhance access to the VA s telehealth platform, VA Video Connect.