
Hospitals Must Employ Safeguards to Prevent Drug Diversion
“Prevention is better than cure,” the Dutch philosopher Desiderius Erasmus once observed. Clearly, Erasmus’ maxim – first mentioned in the 1500s – had staying power:

“Prevention is better than cure,” the Dutch philosopher Desiderius Erasmus once observed. Clearly, Erasmus’ maxim – first mentioned in the 1500s – had staying power:

Drug diversion rarely happens because of one obvious failure. In most healthcare organizations, it develops through small control gaps that go unnoticed over time: inconsistent

The more addiction and recovery stories healthcare leaders hear, the harder it becomes to reduce substance use disorder to a stereotype. That is exactly why

In a recent RXPERT podcast discussion, diversion mitigation leaders explored a question many healthcare organizations still wrestle with: what actually makes someone effective in a
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