Delaware Sen. Stephanie Hansen joined the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services Wednesday in announcing that the first set of funding from an opioid impact fee would be used to prevent ove...
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The New Lenox Safe Communities America Coalition, in partnership with the Will County Executive’s Office, will offer Narcan training on Jan. 25. The free training will be held via Zoom. The eve...
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Pinnacle Treatment Centers, a New Jersey-based and alcohol addiction treatment provider, recently opened a location in Sandusky, Ohio. This is the company’s 15th outpatient facility in Ohio. "Th...
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Significant sex and age-based differences exist among young people who experience a nonfatal opioid overdose, according to researchers at Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center. The ...
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A researcher at Bowling Green State University is working with a local Ohio agency to reduce the number of heroin and opioid deaths in individuals leaving jail or prison, the school announced recently...
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Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it was taking further steps to combat the opioid crisis through risk evaluation and mitigation strategy programs. FDA Commissioner Step...
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently awarded West Virginia $1.9 million for research and programs addressing opioid misuse. Funding was divided among four organizations: ...
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A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that while drug overdose deaths from prescription opioids are dropping, overdose deaths for 2019 are up compared to 2018. ...
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Nearly half of people who suffer from substance use disorders (SUD) are hesitant to take a COVID-19 vaccine, according to an Addiction Policy Forum survey. Of those who are willing, most said they ...
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On Monday, Congress passed a sweeping $900 billion stimulus package that would not provide direct help to Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic but would also fund necessary mental health and substan...
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U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) announced Monday that the final 2021 Fiscal Year funding agreement would include $782 million in grants for the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA). Portma...
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U.S. Rep. Fred Keller (R-PA) stressed the importance of holding companies like Purdue Pharma, and the Sackler family that owns it, accountable for their part in the opioid epidemic. While particip...
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Manitoba recently changed the classification of naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote, from a Schedule II drug to an unscheduled drug. The move is expected to reduce opioid overdose deaths and remove...
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The François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, in collaboration with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Open Society Foundations, recently urged the...
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U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced Thursday that Kentucky would receive a total of $5 million over the next five years to combat substance abuse. Part of the Drug Free Communities Progr...
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Ohio officials recently announced they decided how to distribute $77 million in federal State Opioid Response (SOR) grants. In August, the state was awarded $96 million. The SOR program helps ...
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U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and Ron Wyden (D-OR), the finance committee’s ranking member, presented a report to the committee Wednesday illuminating the ...
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The Office of National Drug Control Policy’s Drug-Free Communities Support Program recently awarded 10 Maine organizations $914,156 to prevent youth substance misuse and foster drug-free communities...
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The federal Drug Free Communities (DFC) Support Program recently awarded a $103,864 grant to the Amherst Task Force for Healthy Communities & Healthy Youth to prevent substance abuse among the town’...
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A new report out by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that most U.S. counties do not have all levels of substance abuse disorder treatment available, and for nearly one-third of the cou...
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