Monthly Archives: March 2017

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar helped introduce a bill today that would require prescription drug monitoring programs for all states that receive federal funding for opioid abuse. http://www.fox21online.com/2017/03/30/klobuchar-backs-opioid-bill/

Wisconsin and the United States face a public health crisis from prescription opioid abuse and overdoses. http://www.natlawreview.com/article/pilluted-prescribe-painkillers-responsibly-or-face-serious-consequences

Big changes are coming to Wisconsin’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program next month. http://www.news8000.com/news/changes-coming-to-drug-monitoring-program/421131388

Augusta, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) – Maine Attorney General Janet T. Mills announced today a new television ad warning of the link between prescription painkillers and heroin addiction. https://www.workerscompensation.com/news_read.php?id=25767

MILWAUKEE — We asked and you delivered! After more than 5,600 votes in our online poll, we have a winner in the Dose of Reality Teen Video Challenge. http://fox6now.com/2017/03/27/we-have-a-winner-in-the-dose-of-reality-teen-video-challenge/

As an emergency medicine physician at the University of Maryland Medical Center, Dr. Gentry Wilkerson has seen more and more overdose patients in recent months. The facility averaged about 0.5 per day in 2015, but jumped to 1.2 per day … Read More

Opioid epidemic: What efforts would you take as mayor to combat the opioid epidemic? http://www.htrnews.com/story/news/2017/03/22/manitowoc-mayor-candidates-justin-nickels-barry-nelson-heroin-drug-epidemic/99490974/

Reyna Saldana can’t remember what it was like to be addicted to heroin. She is 18 now; she was just a baby then. http://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2017/03/22/kids-in-crisis-teen-breaks-cycle-substance-abuse/99397976/

Heroin addiction is becoming increasingly common in workplaces throughout the U.S., particularly in cities hit hardest by the opioid epidemic. http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/20/heroin-is-creeping-into-offices-in-cities-ravaged-by-prescription-pill-abuse/

Rapid action by both Gov. Scott Walker’s opioid task force and the state Legislature is a reflection of the seriousness of the situation and a desire to help addicts immediately. http://www.wiscnews.com/portagedailyregister/opinion/editorial/article_ba2d0639-0ff9-5967-9a33-e843e46a2aec.html