COLUMBIA — The director of the state's disabilities agency is warning providers not to allow untrained staff to administer medications to vulnerable adults in their care after officials discovered ...

Medication-assisted treatment (MAT), such as naltrexone, is a well-documented successful treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). However, there are multiple barriers for clinicians to use MAT, ...

GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) -- First responders received training Friday on how to use the medication Narcan, which blocks the effects of opioids, such as Fentanyl. Narcan contains the antidote Naloxone.

Researchers implemented a medication reconciliation interview to improve accuracy of and adherence to medication reconciliation. DENVER — Implementation of a standardized medication reconciliation ...

Medication errors experienced by patients include taking the wrong dose or quantity of a particular drug, as well as omission of a drug or taking unlicensed drugs. Nurses who had attended medication ...

For the past decade there has been a debate raging within the American Psychological Association (APA) as to whether psychologists should be allowed to prescribe medication. I say "debate," but in ...

Pharmacies and providers are turning to AI to better understand why their patients aren’t following doctors’ orders on their prescriptions. Like pretty much all of AI, ambient tools are evolving at a ...