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Personal information requirement for drug could hamper opioid crisis effort
Gov. Doug Ducey’s requirement that people give their personal information to a state database when they pick up a life-saving drug for opioid overdoses at a pharmacy may actually jeopardize lives, say those who help people with drug addiction recover.
Health care politics, environment take the air out of asthma sufferers
The Arizona Department of Health Services estimates that the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, or AHCCCS, Arizona’s Medicaid program, pays for more than half of the estimated $115 million spent every year on asthma-related emergency room visits and hospitalizations.
Arizona on course to relive health care ordeal if Congress cuts Medicaid
Arizona already knows what will happen if its Medicaid program falters. In 2011, the state froze enrollment for childless adults in its Medicaid system, leading to more than 160,000 left without coverage in a relatively short amount of time.
Negative ads motivate smokers to call Arizona’s helpline
The Arizona Department of Health Services rolled out sleek new television advertisements featuring popular sports coaches to promote its smoking cessation hotline. They didn’t really work.
Herrod praises new law that threatens Planned Parenthood funding
Lawmakers approved legislation this year that threatens to pull funding from Planned Parenthood, and passed a law that requires physicians to do more to save fetuses that are “delivered alive.”
Appeals court upholds limits before PTSD patients can access medical marijuana
Appellate Judge Samuel Thumma, writing for the unanimous court, rejected arguments by the Arizona Cannabis Nurses Association that it was illegal for Will Humble, then the director of the agency, to conclude that the only legitimate use of marijuana for PTSD is for “palliative care,” meaning helping to alleviate the symptoms.
$3.6 million federal grant jump starts opioid awareness efforts in six counties
State officials said federal funding has helped jump start awareness campaigns and drug monitoring efforts to combat the prescription drug epidemic in six of Arizona’s 15 counties.
ADHS data: Many kindergartners enrolled without measles vaccines didn’t have exemption forms
Arizona Department of Health Services data shows that about three in every 10 kindergartners who enrolled during the most recent school year without measles vaccines didn't have exemption forms.
Midwives battle new rules, regulations and a ramp-up in enforcements
The enforcement actions, among other issues, led the Arizona Association of Midwives to file a lawsuit against the Arizona Department of Health Services. The state’s midwifery rules put women and babies at risk and don’t follow best practices for health care, the lawsuit alleges.
Explanations vary on drop in Arizona abortions
New figures Monday show that fewer abortions were performed in Arizona than in the prior three years. But abortion rights advocates and foes of the procedure have sharply different reasons to explain the numbers. And they don't even agree which numbers are the most significant.
Cap Times Q&A: Tomi St. Mars – A career built on preventing injuries and death
Tomi St. Mars is the chief of the Office of Injury Prevention at the Arizona Department of Health Services. She started as a medic and emergency nurse 25 years ago, but after seeing the trauma people suffer from easily preventable conditions, moved into the injury prevention field.
Doctors oppose online information about medication abortions
As doctors are in court seeking to end a requirement to tell patients about the potential for reversing a medication abortion, the Arizona Department of Health Services has posted information online about the procedure and a link to a clinic that does it.
