pharmacists

Addiction and Drug Use

Pharmacists Slow To Dispense Lifesaving Overdose Drug Naloxone

Gale Dunham, a pharmacist in Calistoga, Calif., knows the devastation the opioid epidemic has wrought, and she is glad the anti-overdose drug naloxone is…
Community Health

Lives And Money Could Be Saved If We Only Took Our Medications As Prescribed

290 billion dollars are spent each year in avoidable healthcare costs related to medication non-adherence - including emergency department,…
Addiction and Drug Use

Sound Medicine: April 20, 2014

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/042014_full.mp3The "Sound Medicine" program for April 20 Ebola outbreak in GuineaThe "gate-keeping" role of…

Sick Season 2

Incarcerated people are some of the sickest people in our country. Many have chronic conditions such as diabetes or lung disease. And they’re far more likely to suffer from mental illness and addiction. On Season 2 of Sick, listen to stories of what goes wrong in corrections facilities — places meant to keep people healthy, but built to punish them.

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