Posts Tagged ‘opioid epidemic’
Opioid reduction success at Inova Alexandria Hospital
Prescription for Safety Addressing the opioid crisis: Inova’s new mindset for pain management We’ve all seen the grim statistics. Opioids kill more than 140 people every day in the United States. They cost our country tens of billions of dollars in treatment and lost productivity each year. Here in Virginia, 1,400 people died of opioid-related…
Read MoreInova Reduces Opioid Prescribing in the ED
Martin Brown, MD, is board certified in Emergency Medicine and he serves as the Chief of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Inova Alexandria Hospital. Dr. Brown has served on the Inova System Opioid Task Force and on the Alexandria City Opioid Work Group. Since 2015, Dr. Brown and the Inova Alexandria Hospital Emergency Department…
Read MoreInova is taking steps to protect patients and reduce opioid use
Prescription for Safety The statistics are staggering. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every day 91 Americans die from an opioid overdose. In response to the growing problem of opioid addiction in the community, Inova emergency personnel are working closely with all of the hospital departments and across the system to adopt…
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