Grassroots Advocacy Radio with Marsha Padilla-Goad: Conversations to Educate, Empower, and Engage: Rural Older Adults and the Opioid Epidemi
Jun 4, 2019 ·
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Rural older adults are dying from the opioid epidemic at a higher rate than older adults in the nation as a whole, yet fewer than one in 10 opioid treatment...
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Rural older adults are dying from the opioid epidemic at a higher rate than older adults in the nation as a whole, yet fewer than one in 10 opioid treatment centers are located in rural America, and many rural first responders are not trained to administer life-saving medications for overdose.
Resources:
https://www.asaging.org/blog/rural-older-adults-hit-hard-opioid-epidemic
https://philanthropynewyork.org/sites/default/files/resources/GIA_Rural_Opioid_Paper.pdf
https://www.giaging.org/documents/170818_Benson-Aldrich_paper_for_GIA_web_FINAL.pdf
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Resources:
https://www.asaging.org/blog/rural-older-adults-hit-hard-opioid-epidemic
https://philanthropynewyork.org/sites/default/files/resources/GIA_Rural_Opioid_Paper.pdf
https://www.giaging.org/documents/170818_Benson-Aldrich_paper_for_GIA_web_FINAL.pdf
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