For two decades, the scale of the U.S. opioid crisis has overwhelmed our ability to provide treatment to people who need it. This is particularly true in the corrections system, where opioid use is ...

As an emergency department physician, I have been on the front lines of the opioid overdose crisis, treating countless people — young and old, housed and unhoused — experiencing an overdose or ...

While not without its disadvantages, narcotic replacement therapy has been shown to improve the success rate of those in recovery. Over the last several decades, the use of narcotics, or opioids, has ...

Many jails and prisons around the country don't provide medication treatment for opioid use disorder. Studies show that ...

Medicaid plays a key role for giving people with opioid-use disorder access to treatment, according to a Rutgers Health study. Progress in life-saving treatment for opioid-use disorder with the ...

OGDEN — People who are incarcerated at the Weber County Correctional Facility and struggling with opioid use disorder now have access to expanded treatment services. During its weekly meeting Tuesday, ...

LOS ANGELES, CA - January 15, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - Muse Treatment Alcohol & Drug Rehab Los Angeles has released ...

Muse Treatment Alcohol & Drug Rehab Los Angeles has published a new educational resource that explains how opioid receptors ...

Orange County’s Office for a Drug-Free Community leads efforts to curb opioid deaths through prevention education, enforcement, treatment and recovery. Credit: Orange County Government media gallery ...

This is reporting by New York Focus, a not-for-profit, nonpartisan newsroom publishing in-depth journalism about politics and policy in New York's capital. IN LATE JUNE, the state’s commissioner for ...

The number of New Yorkers prescribed a key medication for opioid use disorder increased 7% during the pandemic as health providers battled against skyrocketing drug overdose deaths, a state report ...