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Looking to speed administration of drug, hospitals help to get police officers trained in delivery
Health care facilities like Community Hospital in Anderson, Ind., are ramping up their efforts to battle opioid abuse, taking such steps as ensuring that local police forces have overdose treatments in hand.
"Hospitals recognize that they have an important role to play in helping to stop the opioid epidemic," says Evelyn Knolle, senior associate director of policy for the American Hospital Association. "Across the country, hospitals are working to reduce the epidemic in a number of ways, such as implementing standard protocols for prescribing opioids for primary care, the emergency department, and other front-line providers; looking...