Six Pennsylvania programs have been awarded grants of up to $1.5 million to support long-term recovery for those suffering ...

Loudoun County offers ongoing mental health education and substance abuse prevention trainings. For February, training ...

A study conducted at Turku PET Centre in Finland showed that changes in the functioning of opioid neurotransmitters in the ...

Only a tiny percentage of people addicted to alcohol or drugs take medication for it. Why not? It's complicated, but the ...

The Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) this week announced an investment of more than $8 million to expand or ...

The program operates with participants being financially rewarded for actions that support recovery such as remembering to ...

EVERETT — A new University of Washington center is seeking to fill a training void for frontline responders in fire departments, better equipping them to respond to mental health and substance use ...

Rather than further criminalizing substance use disorder, we must legitimize trauma-informed care as a key pathway to ending ...

A new study from researchers at UC San Francisco has found that a treatment approach designed to help people addicted to fentanyl, using low doses of buprenorphine, is not working as expected. The ...

And in 2023, the death rate for Black men age 55 and older was nearly triple the national average for that age group. The vast majority of the nation’s overdose deaths in 2023 were likely connected to ...

More than 5 million Americans struggle with opioid use disorder, a physical addiction entwined with America’s health, ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, when fentanyl overdoses surged, doctors were desperate to find ways of helping their patients.