“We can’t arrest our way out of addiction and drug use,” said Greg Berry, statewide LEAD and deflection programs director for the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition. “This gets us a reduction in ...

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At Beyond Addiction symposium at UAlbany, Dr. Joshua Lynch detailed how the MATTERS app connects New Yorkers to telemedicine ...

Prescription drug addiction might be far more widespread than originally thought. UK Addiction and Treatment Centres (UKAT) tells HuffPost UK that in the past two years alone it has witnessed a 17% ...

People in the United States are in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic and a wave of mental health problems. So funding and staff cuts to a federal agency that supports mental health care, suicide ...

We’re in the final stretch of the year that seems to blur from tailgates to Friendsgiving gatherings to holiday celebrations. A glance at the calendar shows all upside, but for many, it’s a season of ...

In July 2024, Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary designee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., participated in a virtual event in which he briefly outlined his plan to address the country’s opioid ...