WhiteSands Alcohol & Drug Rehab Orlando has published a new resource titled Accepted Insurances, available on ...

Addiction must be treated like any other chronic illness — with collaborative and ongoing assessment, treatment planning and multidisciplinary clinical care. The combination of medication and ...

In 2020 Oregon voters approved Measure 110, the nation’s first law decriminalizing possession of small amounts of drugs, including fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamines. Under Measure 110, people ...

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to ...

Nick Carbonaro's mom will tell you her son wasn't a bad person. He just made some bad decisions. After struggling with addiction for years in February he died of a heroin overdose. "I wake him up the ...

Walter: On average, people go to rehab multiple times before they enter recovery. Someone who attends a 30-day program and ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Prescribing heroin to chronic addicts may be politically sensitive, but it is more effective than the substitute methadone at keeping drug abusers in treatment programmes, British ...

How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...

NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- Police departments in some Illinois cities are offering help for heroin addicts instead of arrest. The (Aurora) Beacon-News reports the amnesty programs offer addicts the chance to ...

During a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing several weeks ago, Congressman Marc Veasey (D-TX) called out HHS ...

FREEPORT, NY (WABC) -- Acting Nassau County DA Madeline Singas on Wednesday announced her office's commitment to close a deadly treatment gap for heroin addicts. It is part of her three-pronged ...

Gary Horejsi wrestled with the decision before him, knowing a life could be in his hands. It was the third time that the woman had used drugs or alcohol since coming to CRI-Help, which runs a 135-bed ...