B.C.’s plan for involuntary addiction treatment is a step back in our response to the ...
B.C. is facing a toxic drug crisis, however, forcing people into involuntary treatment will cause more harm than good.
Missouri’s Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment Task Force hears update on agency efforts
The Missouri legislature’s Task Force on Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment convened at the State Capitol Thursday to ...
Oregon drug possession arrests up since new misdemeanor charge took effect
Oregon lawmakers are starting to wade into the work of monitoring whether the state’s new drug possession law will ...
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UCR medical school develops new curriculum to address substance use crisis
Nearly 6,000 opioid-related overdose deaths occurred in California in 2021, many due to fentanyl, a synthetic opioid. To ...
Drug possession arrests have increased since new misdemeanor charge took effect
Oregon lawmakers are starting to wade into the work of monitoring whether the state’s new drug possession law will ...
FDA approves Bristol Myers Squibb's schizophrenia drug, the first new type of treatment in ...
The twice-daily pill, Cobenfy, is a badly needed new treatment option for the nearly 3 million adults in the U.S. living with ...
West Virginia’s new drug czar was once addicted to opioids himself
Dr. Stephen Loyd, who has been treating patients with substance use disorder since he got sober two decades ago, says ...
Steinberg: Requiring treatment will only worsen California’s drug problems
Proposition 36 would slash tens of millions of dollars from treatment programs while driving up incarcerations.
Topeka's first women-only addiction treatment center gets ready to open
The women's addiction treatment center is the first of its kind in Topeka, and one of only a handful in the state.
Joplin woman to enter local treatment court program
A Joplin woman pleaded guilty this week to stealing and to a reduced charge in a drug trafficking case and was ordered to complete a local treatment court program. Paige J. Shepherd, 24, pleaded ...
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Baker County's drug treatment 'deflection program' up and running on its first day
If Baker County wasn’t the first of Oregon’s 36 counties to use a new state law intended to encourage people to get treatment ...
PTC Therapeutics' Huntington's Treatment Gets FDA Fast Track Designation
PTC Therapeutics' treatment for Huntington's disease has received a fast track designation from U.S. health regulators. The biopharmaceutical company said Thursday that the Food and Drug ...