Under the direction of emergency medicine physician, Joan Papp, MD, the Office of Opioid Safety offers education to providers and to the community, including communication tools to help providers better connect with at-risk patients and resources to help patients with pain management and addic
Date: Mar 15, 2018
Category: Health
Source: Google
Spike in opioid overdoses straining hospitals, rehab facilities; fentanyl linked to spiraling crisis (photos)
"This is a really hard epidemic to get our hands around," said Dr. Joan Papp, an emergency room physician at MetroHealth. "Fentanyl is so strong. People think they are getting heroin and they get fentanyl, and it's much stronger than they expect."
Date: Mar 23, 2016
Category: Health
Source: Google
Rising price of heroin-overdose antidote worries advocates
that distributes naloxone, last fall's price increase derailed a plan to hand out about 4,000 kits this year. Instead, the program scaled back to 2,100, said Dr. Joan Papp, medical director. With rebates announced last week by Ohio's attorney general, the program can purchase another 800 to 900 kits.