BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Signals Knoxville Return
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is negotiating with state officials about a return to the individual insurance market in 2018 in...
How a Tennessee OB-GYN Turned into An Addiction Specialist for Pregnant Women
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. – Dr. Jennifer Maddron was drawn to obstetrics in her third year of medical school after she witnessed her first...
Tennessee Issues Warning about Deadly Drug
A powerful legal painkiller has proven so deadly in Tennessee, the state issued a public health advisory about it on Thursday. The...
Drug Addiction-Domestic Violence Connection Strong
In his long career in law enforcement, Knoxville Police Chief David Rausch learned to expect a connection between alcohol and domestic...
After the OD: County Looks at Hiring Post-Naloxone Case Manager
There’s no question naloxone works well to keep people from dying after they’ve overdosed on opioid drugs. But both emergency responders...
Women in Courts Other than Criminal can Fall Through Cracks
Sometimes, Juvenile Court of Knox County Judge Tim Irwin looks at the young women in his courtroom struggling with addiction, about to...
Program Aims to Meet Addicts' Health Needs Long Term
As early as 2010, they began to see the signs of the coming epidemic. Patients came in for primary care with needle tracks on their arms...
Small-Town Struggles: Addiction, Lack of Resources Plague Health Providers at TN-KY Border
A dozen years ago, Dr. Geogy Thomas wasn’t prepared to see pregnant women addicted to pain medication in his little rural primary-care...
Timeline: How the Opioids Crisis took Hold
The roots of an epidemic In 1995, the Food and Drug Administration approved OxyContin for prescription use. Its active ingredient,...
Tennessee's Plans to Battle Opioid Abuse: Nurses in Recovery, Naloxone Kits
The state’s new weapons to fight the opioid addiction epidemic might be nurses who have been addicts themselves, and naloxone kits in the...