Experts warn that permissive policies and app-based betting are accelerating addiction, especially among young men.
Tiny liquor bottle surcharges send millions to towns for cleanup, but critics say they fuel litter and drunk driving.
Compounds far more potent than fentanyl are emerging faster than ever. State and local overdose tracking systems should be built to detect them.
At least eight states now require insurers to cover alternatives without higher co-pays or extra hurdles.
An investigation has revealed that many of these deaths — whether the result of withdrawal, chronic medical conditions or mental health complications — could have been prevented.
The more flexible approach some doctors are taking clashes with traditional views of how to treat people with addiction.
From R&B concerts in New Jersey to a 1950s sock hop in Connecticut, new data shows wide variation in how governments are spending the windfall.
An NIH-funded study found deep learning tools could forecast next-day relapse risk with high accuracy, giving clinicians time to intervene.
Proposition 36 — which made certain repeat drug and theft crimes into felonies — did not allocate funding to expand treatment slots or coordinate referrals.
One promising approach is a dedicated specialist to prevent ordinary pain management from turning into the kind of addiction that tears at the fabric of communities.
We should bring housing, drug treatment and research together under one roof to meet affected people where they are.
Methadone is an effective treatment but too often state rules and health-care providers’ practices create barriers to successful outcomes. More sensible approaches are needed.
The city is launching “neighborhood wellness courts,” a diversion program designed to issue citations and offer addiction treatment and other services in lieu of misdemeanor sentences.
Stimulants such as cocaine and methamphetamine now often come laced with deadly amounts of fentanyl. The current wave is driving up mortality among Black and Hispanic Americans particularly.
Voters in Massachusetts have an opportunity to open the door to personal and therapeutic use of plant-based psychedelics.
Cook County, Ill., has launched an innovative dashboard mapping certain deaths by cause — gun violence, opioids and extreme weather — to reveal hidden patterns and direct resources where they're most needed.
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