{"id":25181,"date":"2017-04-01T11:31:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T11:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/anxiety\/25181\/"},"modified":"2017-04-01T11:31:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T11:31:27","slug":"walgreens-works-to-help-curb-opioid-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/25181","title":{"rendered":"Walgreens works to help suppress opioid epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\r\n<p><p>From Reuters:<\/p>\r\n<p>The drugstore chain Walgreens is taking a three-pronged way of  fight people health crisis stemming from prescription opioids, relating to a group of pharmacists along with other clinicians from the organization.<\/p>\r\n<p>Into the Journal of this United states Pharmacists Association, they report that Walgreens pharmacies have actually expanded accessibility naloxone, a drug that will prevent the results of opioid painkillers such as for example hydrocodone and oxycodone and thus prevent overdose deaths from respiratory failure.<\/p>\r\n<p>Also, the string installed medication-disposal kiosks in 500 of their 8,200 U.S. shops making it simpler for Us citizens to empty their particular medication cupboards of unused pharmaceuticals which may otherwise get into the fingers of substance abusers.<\/p>\r\n<p>Walgreens also offers employed pharmacists and pupils to teach and counsel customers and caregivers about opioid overdoses and naloxone.<\/p>\r\n<br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/acutecareinc.wordpress.com\/23476\/\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=acutecareinc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2103256&#038;post=23476&#038;subd=acutecareinc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" circumference=\"1\" level=\"1\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><p>From Reuters:<\/p>\n<p>The drugstore chain Walgreens is taking a three-pronged approach to combat the public health crisis stemming from prescription opioids, according to a team of pharmacists and other clinicians from the company.<\/p>\n<p>In the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, they report that Walgreens pharmacies have expanded access to naloxone, a drug that can block the effects of opioid painkillers such as hydrocodone and oxycodone and thereby prevent overdose deaths from respiratory failure.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the chain installed medication-disposal kiosks in 500 of its 8,200 U.S. stores to make it easier for Americans to empty their medicine cabinets of unused pharmaceuticals that might otherwise fall into the hands of substance abusers.<\/p>\n<p>Walgreens also has employed pharmacists and students to educate and counsel patients and caregivers about opioid overdoses and naloxone.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/acutecareinc.wordpress.com\/23476\/\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=acutecareinc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2103256&#038;post=23476&#038;subd=acutecareinc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}