Ep. 283 – Obscure Treatment Could be The Final Fix for Addiction
Obscure Treatment Could be The Final Fix for Addiction For the last few months, I’ve been covering COVID-19’s impact on the opioid crisis. With overdoses up 42% in May [...]
Ep. 282 – The Impact of COVID-19 on the Opioid Crisis
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Opioid Crisis Over the last 90 plus days, much has changed in our world. COVID19 has forced many of us to endure unfamiliar hardships and [...]
Ep. 281 – A Safer Supply Saves Lives
A Safer Supply Saves Lives Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) is considered the gold standard for treating opioid use disorder. But it doesn’t work for everyone, and for those unresponsive to MAT, the [...]
Ep. 279 – Home Test Kits: DFCA’s Innovative Response to a Pandemic
Home Test Kits: DFCA's Innovative Response to a Pandemic In today’s episode of the Cover2, PPT podcast, we continue revisiting some of the People, Places, and Things we’ve profiled in earlier [...]
Ep. 278 – Adapting Peer Recovery for a Pandemic
Adapting Peer Recovery for a Pandemic Three years ago, we profiled AnchorEd, an innovative initiative, developed in Rhode Island. This program enables peer recovery coaches to meet with overdose victims before [...]
Ep. 277 – Rapid Changes to Opioid Treatment Driven by COVID-19
Rapid Changes to Opioid Treatment Driven by COVID-19 Last week a STAT News article titled “Covid-19 will worsen the opioid overdose crisis if we don’t prepare now,” stated that, “Missing from [...]
Ep. 276 – Strike Force Stops Flow of Illicit Opioids
Strike Force Stops Flow of Illicit Opioids In October 2018, the Justice Department's Criminal Division created the Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid (ARPO), Strike Force. This team consists of federal agents, prosecutors, [...]
Ep. 274 – Treatment Breakthrough: The ER Addiction Stabilization Unit
Treatment Breakthrough: The ER Addiction Stabilization Unit In June 2017, Dr. Belma Andric, Chief Medical Officer of the Health District of Palm Beach County, Florida, joined Greg on the Cover2 podcast. [...]
Ep. 272 – MOMS Plus: New Program to Lower NAS Rates
MOMS Plus: New Program to Lower NAS Rates Between 2004 and 2011, opioid abuse and dependence among delivering mothers in Ohio grew by 491%. As a consequence, cases of neonatal abstinence [...]
Ep. 266 – Don’t Live in Denial, Ohio
Don't Live in Denial, Ohio Ohio has one of the highest opioid overdose death rates in the entire nation. Despite research from the Ohio Opioid Education Alliance revealing that most Ohio parents are [...]
Ep. 265 – Drug & Alcohol Prevention Targets At-Risk Personality Types
Drug & Alcohol Prevention Targets At-Risk Personality Types For years now, schools across the U.S. have been striving to implement more effective drug abuse prevention and education programs to protect adolescents [...]
Ep. 260 – ResultsOhio: Funding Programs That Get Results
You wouldn’t pay for something without knowing what you were getting, but all too often, our tax dollars are spent on programs without accountability for results. With the new ResultsOhio initiative, led [...]