The state is offering student loan repayments between $15,000 and $30,000 to expand substance abuse disorder treatments.

Medications proven to effectively treat opioid addiction are rarely given after emergency department visits for overdose, and ...

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

Tennessee opioid deaths dropped by more than 30% from November 2023 to 2024, but threats to Medicaid threaten to derail that progress.

Sustained-release naltrexone may slightly increase illicit opioid use and serious adverse events compared to opioid agonists, with uncertain effects on retention and acceptability. It may reduce ...

More than one in five people prescribed extended-release painkillers such as OxyContin developed an addiction within a year, ...

Some experts say involuntary addiction treatment raises serious ethical concerns and could even increase the risk of overdose ...

The patients dependent on alcohol are large in numbers because it is consumed on a large scale; about 14.6%, i.e about 16 ...