by RxSafe Marin | Oct 22, 2020 | News, Opioid Epidemic
The Justice Department announced on Wednesday a global settlement of civil and criminal investigations into Purdue Pharma’s aggressive marketing of opioid medications, including OxyContin. Federal officials have long maintained Purdue’s actions helped fuel...
by RxSafe Marin | Sep 3, 2020 | News
Our county is not yet safe from the scourge of Corona-virus, despite some counties opening their businesses and relaxing social distancing guidelines, as an organization dedicated to the health and safety of our citizenry, RxSafe Marin is compelled to remind you that...
by RxSafe Marin | Aug 3, 2020 | News, Public Health Advisory
By Susan Kim, AmeriCorps VISTA with RxSafe Marin Experts say the COVID-19-19 pandemic disproportionately affects vulnerable at-risk communities and when I first learned about the COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin State Prison, I wondered if this is what they meant....
by RxSafe Marin | Jul 21, 2020 | News, Opioid Epidemic
A bipartisan piece of legislation, the Non-Opioids Prevent Addiction in the Nation (NOPAIN) Act (S. 3067/H.R. 5172), has been languishing in the House of Representatives since last November. The bill proposes a few important changes to the way Medicare covers...
by RxSafe Marin | Jul 13, 2020 | Mental Health, News
The Marin Independent Journal, our local Marin-based newspaper, has recently released an article detailing how this pandemic has affected our collective mental health. There has been a 44% increase in cases being delivered to the newly renovated Marin Health...
by RxSafe Marin | May 28, 2020 | News
Fatalities resulting from suicide, drug and alcohol poisoning, along with alcoholic liver disease and cirrhosis, are often categorized as deaths of despair. As many as 75,000 Americans could die because of drugs or suicide as a result of the corona-virus pandemic...
