Enlarge this image Massachusetts wanted to negotiate prices and stop the use of some of the most expensive drugs in its Medicaid…
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Families Choose Empathy Over ‘Tough Love’ To Rescue Loved Ones From Opioids
by Martha Bebinger August 10, 2018Enlarge this image Bea and Doug Duncan outside their home in Natick, Mass. The coaching they got from the Community Reinforcement and…
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Some Doctors, Patients Balk At Medicare’s ‘Flat Fee’ Payment Proposal
by Martha Bebinger July 27, 2018Enlarge this image Medicare’s proposed changes to doctors’ compensation will reduce paperwork, physicians agree. But at what cost to their income? andresr/Getty…
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After An Overdose, Patients Aren’t Getting Treatments That Could Prevent The Next One
by Martha Bebinger June 18, 2018Enlarge this image Yvette and Scott, both recovering heroin users, now take methadone daily from a clinic in the Southend of Boston.…
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Enlarge this image From left to right: Felito Diaz, Julio Cesar Santiago, Richard Lopez and Irma Bermudez meet at Casa Esperanza, a…
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Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine Becoming A Deadly Problem Among Drug Users
by Martha Bebinger March 29, 2018Enlarge this image Arlington, Mass., Police Chief Fred Ryan (right) and Inspector Gina Bassett review toxicology reports on cocaine evidence looking for…
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Enlarge this image Mady Ohlman, who lives near Boston and has been sober for more than four years, says many drug users…
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Should Hospitals Be Punished For Post-Surgical Patients’ Opioid Addiction?
by Martha Bebinger November 26, 2017Enlarge this image After two weeks of recovery from an addiction to opioids prescribed by her surgeon, Katie Herzog takes a walk…