Ryan Essex of the Gibson Center warns that proposed changes to Medicaid and SNAP could jeopardize addiction recovery efforts by cutting off vital support for those rebuilding their lives.

I read with interest Mike Sluchinski’s assumption that the pusher is responsible for drug addiction (letter to the editor, May 6). I believe the problem is simple economic supply and demand. This is a ...

President Trump’s claims about fentanyl trafficking have played a role in refocusing Canada’s attention on border control.

Despite the White House naming overdose prevention among its top drug policy priorities, a recently leaked federal budget proposal suggests it would cut a program that directly expands access to ...

Mother’s Day is a day that evokes joy for many, but it carries a painful significance for me. I lost my son Eric to an ...

Nearly all of the for-profit company's 1,900 patients are on Medicaid, government-funded health insurance for low-income ...

While well-intentioned, Scott L. Bohn’s op-ed “Equipping first responders for the age of synthetic opioids” (April 28, TribLive) calling for expanded use of high dose and long-lasting opioid overdose ...

Hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone and many others are all different types of opioids typically prescribed by doctors to treat ...

Although a federal parity law has been on the books since 2008, the regulations in question were issued last September. They represent the latest development in a nearly two-decade push by advocates, ...

For 20 years, help in Union County for opioid addiction started at the McCleod Centers for Wellbeing on U.S. Highway 74 in ...

There’s encouraging news from the front lines of North Carolina’s painstaking battle against the opioid crisis.