The National Safety Council has released a comprehensive plan meant to address the national opioid crisis and get the issue back in the public eye in time for the 2020 election cycle. The NSC’s p...
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In a move applauded by U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar has moved to expand flexibility for opioid grant funding sought by states an...
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Faced with a looming May 22 expiration of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) demonstration program, 60 national organizations have collectively urged Congressional action and exp...
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Seeking to lower the use of opioids in dental care, UnitedHealthcare has released a new oral health public toolkit for professionals and consumers alike meant to educate on alternative pain-management...
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Through the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP), nearly $1.5 million in federal grants will be doled out to seven local authorities to push criminal justice diversion programs ...
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Unnerved by a three-month deadline for e-cigarette product review, 17 senators wrote to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn last week to encourage higher standards of oversigh...
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The most recent quarterly opioid surveillance report from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health showed that opioid-related overdose deaths in-state have fallen 5 percent from their 2016 high. ...
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A roundtable discussion held by the Bipartisan Opioid Task Force this week focused on challenges blocking access to mental health and substance use treatment under various insurance plans, despite fed...
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In response to a nationwide, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) effort to crackdown on Electronic Smoking Devices (ESDs), Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot announced his disappointment this wee...
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The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) released its annual National Drug Control Budget this week, calling for a $94 million increase to counter-drug efforts in 2021. In al...
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As part of a larger mental health initiative, Pennsylvania released a survey to state healthcare providers last week to determine the existing barriers to mental health and substance use disorder trea...
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House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) lauded the actions of President Donald Trump in extending the fentanyl analogues ban. Trump recently signed the Temporary Re...
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One of the factors in high rates of recurrent overdoses for teens, a new analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health discovered, is that most teens treated for an overdose receive no evidence...
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With House approval of the Temporary Reauthorization and Study of the Emergency Scheduling of Fentanyl Analogues Act, Congress is ready to send a bill to keep fentanyl-related substances under heavily...
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In a letter dispatched to U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Secretary Robert Wilkie last week, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) called for the department to release reports on State Prescription D...
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The federal government moved to buoy rural communities’ efforts to address drug addiction last week with the release of the Rural Community Action Guide -- an information package of background, reco...
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Those Pennsylvanians recovering from opioid use disorder, and their families, will soon benefit from $5 million in grants from the state government, Gov. Tom Wolf announced last week. “A key comp...
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U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) this week reintroduced legislation that seeks to crack down on opioid misuse among students and athletes by allowing schools, youth athletic associations, and communiti...
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