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Save a Life I Complete Naloxone Training Today
Over 250 drug-related deaths occur every day in the United States, and the opioid epidemic continues to be a major public health concern. However, there is hope for saving lives with the use of Naloxone, a medication that can reverse opioid overdoses. “We all have a...
Friday Focus 4 Health: March 2023 Series – Register Today!
The Friday Focus 4 Health March Series begins on March 10, 2023 Strategies for Opioid Misuse | 12:00 - 12:30 pm CT Clostridium Difficile Infections (CDI) | 12:30 - 1:00 pm CT [symple_button url="https://gpqin.wufoo.com/forms/friday-focus-4-health-march-2023/"...
Strategies for Opioid Misuse: Addressing the Epidemic | Friday Focus 4 Health
Today, the opioid epidemic continues to ravage communities, with tens of thousands of people dying each year from overdoses. This is a public health crisis across the country, including the Dakotas. There are countless people that are suffering from opioid misuse. We...
American Heart Association®: Virtual Pain Management Summit | March 16, 2023
Join American Heart Association® volunteer experts from across the country as they review pain management for older adults in the hospital setting, the role of pharmacists in inpatient pain management and health equity. Pain Management Summit March 16, 2023 • 12:00 –...
CDC Adds COVID-19 to List of Routine Vaccines for Kids and Adults
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has added COVID-19 vaccines to its list of routine vaccines for children adolescents and adults. The revised schedules were recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The CDC worked...
Recommitting to Antimicrobial Stewardship in North Dakota Post Pandemic
Antibiotic stewardship is the effort to measure and improve how antibiotics are prescribed by clinicians and used by patients. Emily Perry is an antibiotic stewardship pharmacist within the Center for Collaboration and Advancement in Pharmacy (CAP). Perry is less than...
Fentanyl: The Single Deadliest Drug Threat
According to the CDC, 107,375 people in the United States died of drug overdoses and drug poisonings in the 12-month period ending in January 2022. A staggering 67 percent of those deaths involved synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Some of these deaths were attributed...
Substance Abuse: Treatment is Available
If an individual is thinking about treatment for a substance abuse disorder, he or she is already making a move towards recovery. Fortunately, there are many programs and treatment centers available to help. More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses between...
Nursing Home Single Dose COVID-19 Vaccination Option
As COVID-19 hits its three-year mark, we have seen nursing homes take some of the biggest hits of the virus with their patients and their staff. Nursing homes homes are now able to enroll in CDC's COVID-19 Vaccination Program to obtain single-dose vials of a COVID-19...
What Can We Do About Opioids?
Did you know? The number of drug overdose deaths increased by nearly 30% from 2019 to 2020 and has quintupled since 1999. Nearly 75% of the 91,799 drug overdose deaths in 2020 involved an opioid. 187 people die every day from an opioid overdose.¹ Medical personnel,...