The National Institute on Drug Abuse recently awarded more than $11 million to a Yale School of Medicine research team for its opioid use disorder initiative. The five-year initiative, Addressing R...
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A bipartisan group of U.S. Congressmen is again calling on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to finalize “partial fill” regulations, saying the regulations will help combat the nation’s opi...
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Just five weeks after announcing a $1.2 million program to help healthcare entities identify patients at risk of opioid abuse or overdose, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announced 225 entit...
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People with substance use disorders (SUDs) are more vulnerable to COVID-19 and its most adverse health outcomes, according to a study recently published in Molecular Psychiatry. Researchers analyze...
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The U.S. Department of Labor is reporting fewer federal employees are taking opioids after its Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP) took steps to track and reduce opioid prescriptions. ...
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A recent study looking at pain among cannabis users has found that regular cannabis use doesn’t appear to increase pain sensitivity – unlike long-term opioid use. The study, done by doctoral s...
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The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed legislation that would assist families impacted by addiction. The Family Support Services for Addiction Act would create a $25 million grant progra...
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In a proclamation issued Oct. 1, President Donald Trump declared October 2020 National Substance Abuse Prevention Month and pledged to continue his administration’s work to break “the grip of alco...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued its finalized guidance for drug companies hoping to create new medicines to treat opioid use disorder. Previously, the FDA had opened its guidance up f...
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In what’s being called the largest health care fraud and opioid enforcement action in the history of the U.S. Department of Justice, officials said they have charged 345 defendants, including more t...
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The American Society of Addiction Medicine applauded the efforts of U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey (R-PA), Joe Manchin (D-WV) and U.S. Reps. Harley Rouda (D-OH) and Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) for their efforts to...
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The Michigan Senate recently passed two bills that would allow county prosecutors to bring charges in a drug overdose death even if the illegal drugs were purchased in another county. The bills wou...
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The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has complicated strategies for curbing opioid addiction and overdoses in the United States and will require even closer communications and cooperation among government agencies...
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A new study from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found that approvals for prescription opioids by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have some shortcomings for more than two dec...
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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced Tuesday that it would be providing an additional $1.3 million in grants to the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training to respond to the opioid crisi...
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The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration recently awarded two grants totaling $80 million to the Michigan Opioids Task Force and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Service...
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U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) have partnered with U.S. Reps. Harley Rouda (D-CA) and Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) to introduce bipartisan, bicameral legislation to help individuals st...
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U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) hosted White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director Jim Carroll in Kannapolis, N.C., Monday to discuss the opioid epidemic and efforts to comba...
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Pennsylvania recently launched Life Unites Us, a campaign aimed at reducing the stigma of substance use disorders (SUD), specifically opioid use disorder (OUD). It is part of the state’s Departme...
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The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently awarded UC Davis Health a three-year $500,000 grant to help pregnant and postpartum mothers with opioid use disorder (OUD) and their in...
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