Rx and Illicit Drug Summit

Volume 12, Issue 38

February 02, 2023

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Operation UNITE is the Educational Advisor to the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit.

Animal Tranquilizer Found in Increasing Number of Screenings

Tom Valentino, Addiction Professional

The animal tranquilizer xylazine has been found in an increasing number of screenings conducted by the healthcare lab Aegis Science Corporation, according to a new study published by the healthcare testing lab based in Nashville, Tennessee. Aegis received patient samples from 39 states. Samples were collected from healthcare patients between the ages of 20 and 73 between April 2021 and March 2022.

Learn more about xylazine's emerging role in the nation's illicit drug supply and how it is making overdoses more difficult to manage at the upcoming Rx and Illicit Drug Summit. Session information | Register now

How Opioid Misuse is Costing Health Systems

Maya Goldman, Axios

The addiction crisis is increasingly eroding health systems' finances, with the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) costing hospitals more than $95 billion a year, new data from Premier Inc. AI Applied Sciences shows. That's 7.86% of all hospital expenditures, according to the data, which was released first to Axios.

Research Team Looking to Make Fentanyl Less Dangerous

Veronica Zaragovia, Health News Florida

A group of scientists, including a University of Florida researcher, may have found a way to alter the chemical components of fentanyl and lessen its deadly side effects. Jay McLaughlin, a neuroscientist and a professor of pharmacodynamics at the UF College of Pharmacy, is working with scientists at Washington University, the University of Southern California and Stanford University who've discovered a safer version of it.

Addiction Treatments in Pharmacies Could Help Combat the Opioid Crisis

Martha Bebinger, NPR Morning Edition

Medications can help people quit opioids, but fewer than 15% of patients who could benefit from those medications actually receive them. Researchers based at Rhode Island Hospital tested one possible remedy: offering addiction treatment in pharmacies.

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