opioid treatment

The facility, located south of downtown, is a larger home for the Spokane Regional Health District’s opioid treatment and assistance effort. With a patient roster around 1,000 people, the treatment program has outgrown its current staffing and space at SRHD’s downtown Spokane headquarters.

The opioid crisis is hitting people in all age groups. The Kaiser Family Foundation reports the highest number of opioid overdose deaths in the U.S. in…

Today on Inland Journal and the Inland Journal podcast, we look ahead to next week’s presidential primary in Washington.“I think we’re one of the biggest…

Today on the Inland Journal podcast, bringing opioid treatment to rural communities.Many small towns in the U.S. have been devastated by opioid…

Idaho Governor Brad Little has signed into law a bill that allows any licensed health professional to give the drug naloxone to a person suffering an…

This week, President Trump signed into law a bill that aims to make treatment more available to people with opioid addictions. That builds upon work done…

What started as a research project for a Spokane Valley fire administrator has turned into a useful tool to evaluate the city’s opioid use.The project…

The public perception of opioids is not good right now. Thousands of people around the United States die each year due to opioid overdoses. But doctors…

Dr. David Tauben was in Spokane last week to talk about what he terms as ‘the opioid epidemic.” Tauben is the chief of pain medicine for the University of…

Inland Journal for August 31, 2017 ? We’ll look at treating people addicted to opioids. We’ll devote the entire program to an interview with Dr. Matt…