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Washington University’s Clinic for Acceptance, Recovery and Empowerment treats women who become pregnant while dealing with an opioid use disorder. It…
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St. Louis University is starting a program to train doctors to treat patients with addictions.The university’s school of medicine will operate the state’s…
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Nearly three people a day died of opioid overdoses in St. Louis last year, according to data released by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug…
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A few weeks ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released some positive statistics related to the ongoing opioid crisis. While drug…
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Since 2016, Missouri has received more than $65 million in federal grants to provide treatment and recovery services to people addicted to opioids.The…
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The number of drug-related deaths increased by 16% last year, as fatal overdoses declined by an estimated 5.1% nationwide, according to the Centers for…
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She started using drugs at 16. After moving around the country and trying to quit several times, she came back to St. Louis four years later, hoping for a…
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For years after he got out of the Navy, Joel Bishop took morphine twice a day.He used four or five Percocet in between those doses.“I lived around that…
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A St. Louis nonprofit is sending outreach workers to city streets to dispense life-saving treatment from a newly refurbished ambulance.The Missouri…
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'Different Face' Of Addiction Has Led To 'Long Overdue' Shift From Criminal Justice To Public HealthWhen David Patterson Silver Wolf refers to the U.S. opioid epidemic as part of a “disease of despair” and “a tough disease to treat,” he’s speaking from…