An ice rink to fight opioid crisis? Drug-free fun vs. misuse of settlement cash
A decision about how to spend settlement funds in Carter County, Kentucky, which was hit hard by the opioid epidemic, offers ...
Overdose deaths decline in U.S. driven by fewer opioid fatalities
America's opioid crisis is showing signs of subsiding, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
An Effective Treatment for Opioid Addiction Exists. Why Isn’t It Used More?
A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely ...
Child welfare agencies are buckling under staffing shortages as Pa. debates using opioid money to help
A number of counties are using opioid settlement money for child welfare purposes, but spending by Cameron County was ...
Opinion
Mooresville school shooting plot shows long-term toll of Indiana's opioid crisis | Opinion
Indiana received $980 million in opioid settlement dollars to be doled out over 18 years. If there is one thing we have learned from this crisis, it’s that only treating the addict is ineffective ...
Nonprofit born out of son’s addiction among first to receive Washington County opioid settlement funds
When he was 13, he brought a backpack full of pills from his parents’ medicine chest — Benadryl, Tylenol, prescription ...
New Jersey Herald8d
Sussex County wants to crack down on kids vaping at school. Here's how
The county commissioners approved the latest round of grants to local middle and high schools. Here's where the money is ...
Laurel Fiscal Court discusses potential use of opioid abatement funds for family recovery program
The Laurel County Fiscal Court discussed a potential use of their opioid abatement funds Monday. Jennifer Hancock and Meagan ...
The Hamilton Spectator15d
They were ‘loving people’: Five parents try to make sense of their children’s opioid deaths, advocate for change
Their kids are among the 224 who died from opioids over a five-year span in Brant, but these parents want others to know their children are more than statistics. They were loving people caught in ...