Narcan Nasal Spray Is Now Available Over the Counter. Should You Get It?
Here’s why the lifesaving medication naloxone — commonly known by the brand name Narcan — should be in your medicine cabinet
Opioid Use Disorder & Treatment
For Rural Patients, Opioid Treatment Centers Often Too Far Away
Methadone is often used in the fight against opioid addiction, but long travel times in rural areas may be hampering efforts to get more people treated.
How Communities Are Helping Women and Families Fight the Opioid Crisis
While traditional drug rehabilitation programs continue to play an important role in fighting opioid abuse, here are a few unique approaches making a difference for women and families.
How to Talk to Your Health Care Professional About Opioid Abuse
As the opioid epidemic continues to sweep the nation, it may be time for women to talk to their health care professional about opioid overdoses.
With a Nation in Crisis, It's Time to Erase the Stigma of the Opioid Crisis
Anyone who takes opioids is at risk for developing an addiction and with that comes stigma. It's time to fight both by knowing what symptoms to look for.
New Toolkit Aims to Help Educate Women About Prescription Opioids
Pain management is not a one-size-fits-all situation. Research shows that women are more likely to be prescribed opioids than men and tend to become persistent users of opioids.
Opioids: An Evolving Health Crisis for Women
Opioids such as heroin and fentanyl, continue to harm women and families. Women are at greater risk for OUD because of biologic differences, and women also have higher rates of chronic pain.
Use Of Buprenorphine To Treat Opioid Addiction Proliferates In California
Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder in California with Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) has increased through greater use of Buprenorphine – one of two major medicines used to treat OUD.
Here Are the Top 3 Women’s Health Care Issues of the 2020 Presidential Election, So Far
Nearly 20 candidates are running for the Democratic party nomination. Here’s what they’re saying about the opioid crisis, the affordable care act, medicare for all and prescription prices.
As Treatable As Diabetes? Lawmakers Push New Ways To Stem Opioid Addiction
When people are using medicines to treat their opioid use disorder – just like diabetics use insulin – and their insurance requires pre-authorization before they can get their monthly supply of their medicine, this puts them at great risk for relapse.
HealthyWomen Helping to Combat Opioid Epidemic – Better Treatment and Better Policies
HealthyWomen is helping to combat the opioid epidemic by working with the Legal Action Center, women state legislators, and others to spread understanding of the disease of opioid use disorder (OUD), and best practices for treating OUD.
In New Hampshire, Even Mothers In Treatment For Opioids Struggle To Keep Children
Women in treatment for opioids have challenges keeping their children.
Everything you need to know about women’s health — in one place.
For the Babies of the Opioid Crisis, the Best Care May Be Mom’s Recovery
Children exposed to opioids during pregnancy have certain early and late challenges, and helping their Moms may be the best medicine for them and helping with the consequences of neonatal abstinence syndrome.
Staying Alive: How to Fight an Opioid Addiction
Overcoming opioid addiction requires access to naloxone and long-term therapy, including medication-assisted treatment.
3 Simple Steps Might Reduce Opioid OD Deaths
In 2015, America's opioid epidemic took the lives of more than 33,000 people, but three simple steps might cut that number by about a third, a new study suggests.
