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Prescription Database Helping to Stop Opioid Abuse in Tennessee
The nation’s struggle with opioids isn’t a secret. Nearly 2 million Americans are estimated to be addicted to opioids. In 2012 alone more...
How a Judge Would Fix Tennessee’s Drug Crisis
There is a unique facility in Nashville. Referred to as “DC-4,” the Davidson County Drug Court has given me specific insights into both...
A Brain Hijacked: The Story of Addiction and the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic in Tennessee
The grasp of opioid addiction is far-reaching and unbiased. It preys upon people of every socioeconomic status and race. Residents of...
Multistate Effort Launched to Address Opioid Epidemic
Tennessee Supreme Court cases involving opioid abuse only occasionally come before Chief Justice Jeffrey Bivens. But Bivens' duties off...
Police Arrest Man Accused of Selling Fentanyl-Laced Heroin in Nashville
HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Metro police worked with the 18th Judicial Drug Task Force to arrest a man accused of selling heroin laced...
State Overdose Data Sheds New Light on Opioid Crisis
A new report from the Tennessee Department of Health on drug overdose deaths sheds new light on the opioid epidemic plaguing the state,...
New Niswonger Unit to Help Babies Born with Drug Dependency
Levi began life with neonatal abstinence syndrome. But in the two years since Chris Miller adopted him, 2-year-old Levi has made...
Morristown Neurologist to Plead Guilty in Pain Pill Conspiracy
A Morristown medical doctor who was one of the most prolific prescribers of opiate painkillers in Tennessee will not contest government...
As Drug-Related Heart Infections Climb, Doctors Weigh Ethics of Operating — Or Not
A spike in the number of patients coming in with infected heart valves has surgeons speaking up — because even if the expensive and...