Sentences with phrase «get access to medications»

But an underlying problem grows with each day that passes, when people can't get access to medications and healthcare.

That includes boosting education for doctors and patients, improving research efforts to discover the various roots of chronic pain, and helping government agencies work together better to ensure that people can get access to medications that they need — as well as improve the odds that new ones will be available in the future.

High prices particularly affect the US, though some other countries have trouble getting access to the medication in the first place, said Sarah Lucas, the CEO of Beyond Type 1, a non-profit focused on education and advocacy related to the disease.

«We've had families flying in from all over the country to get access to this medication.»

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Researchers looking into the abuse of prescribed medication in a regional NSW town are told elderly people are being targeted by family members to get access to chronic pain medication.

Lots of moms also get really itchy — but both nausea and itchiness can be taken care of with medication, which you'll have plenty of access to in the hospital.

Whether you are calling the Addictions Hotline to obtain information or to get linked with Stabilization (Detoxification), Outpatient (same day access), Inpatient, Residential services or Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) the Addiction Hotline Counselor can provide a mini screening to help determine the appropriate level for you or your loved ones.

David Matia, a drug court judge in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where deaths also have risen significantly, said incentives are needed to get hospitals to build more detox facilities, to encourage physicians to expand access to medication assisted treatments and to encourage medical students to pursue addiction and behavioral health specialties as their area of practice.

Closed psychiatric hospitals and mental facilities are far from comfortable places to be kept in, and freedom is removed, but the criminal patient does have access to psychiatric care, medication, and other therapies, instead of being warehoused in a prison where they are far less likely to get adequate care or be rehabilitated.

I hear from patients about how having an on - site pharmacy where they can pick up their medications right away, or having immediate access to health care navigators who can answer insurance enrollment questions, has made it so much easier for them to get the care and the coverage they need.