In Morgantown, a team of doctors at WVU Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute is conducting clinical trials for a new method involving ultrasound to help those who suffer from Opioid Use Disorder.

Reed is a senior member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor-Health and Human Services and helped ensure that $1.575 billion for State Opioid Response Grants in 2024, as well as $2 billion for the Substance Use Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Services Block Grants, according to the announcement.

Despite two-thirds of incarcerated people having substance use disorder, a new study reveals a lack of therapy options.

Minnesota is seeking a Medicaid waiver to help cover incarcerated people’s health care, including substance use treatment, and has a new workgroup focused on the problem.

So finds a new study of over 900 jails nationwide. More than half offered inmates no access to medications against opioid use disorder, said a team of researchers from the University of Chicago. “Offering substance use disorder treatment in justice settings helps to break the debilitating -- and often fatal -- cycle of addiction and incarceration,

Opioid use disorder can be a contributing factor to Americans landing in the nation's prisons and jails, but those inmates typically have no access to medications that could help wean them off the drugs.

Medication for opioid use disorder can save lives. But fewer than half of jails surveyed across the country provide it, a new study found.

Just 44 percent of jails offer incarcerated people with opioid use disorder medications like methadone, buprenorphine or naltrexone to treat addiction, according to a new analysis of 1,028 jails from the National Institute of Drug Abuse.

Few U.S. jails offer medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), according to a study published online Sept. 24 in JAMA Network Open. Elizabeth Flanagan Balawajder, M.P.H., from NORC at the University of Chicago,