As part of an effort to expand access to telehealth services, the state of New Jersey’s Division of Consumer Affairs announced Tuesday that it will temporarily waive some regulations surrounding pat...
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The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Parallel, a multistate cannabis company, recently partnered to create a medical marijuana clinical research program. Parallel, through its retail...
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The Health and Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently awarded 116 organizations $101 million to combat substance use disorders (SUD) and opioid-use disorders (OUD). The organizations...
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American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Certifying Board Services recently began offering a clinical pathway to AOA board certification in addiction medicine. The goal is to increase the number of ...
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A new report from the American Heart Association found that marijuana not only has no cardiovascular benefits but may be harmful to the heart and blood vessels. The study, published in AHA’s jou...
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A new bill introduced by U.S. Reps. Filemon Vela (D-TX) and Alex Mooney (R-WV), the Saving America’s Future by Educating Kids (SAFE) Kids Act, proposes to allow the development and use of an evidenc...
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New Jersey Sen. Tony Bucco’s legislation to establish an Overdose Awareness Day has passed out of the state Senate’s Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee. Bucco’s bill, SJR-85...
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Patients and health care providers are reluctant to pursue cognitive behavioral therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) out of fear that discussing traumatic events during therapy will cause...
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Monday, the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports announced it was launching a new overdose prevention campaign centered on fentanyl. The “Prevent Overdose” campaign aims to...
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Pennsylvania’s Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) recently became the first state partner and one of three founding partners to support a national strategy to end the stigma of addiction...
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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) announced an Eastern Kentucky social services agency had been awarded a $2.6 million grant to provide drug addiction treat...
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U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced Thursday the awarding of three grants totaling more than $840k for mental health and substance use services. The grants from...
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U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) recently visited a fire station in Manchester, N.H., to learn about the Manchester Fire Department’s Community Response Unit and how it has saved lives in the city. ...
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New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announced Wednesday that he would implement new measures to promote access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic....
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A bill introduced in the U.S. House would provide temporary flexibility in the Drug Free Communities (DFC) Support Program during the pandemic. The DFC program supports community-based coalitions t...
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Bipartisan legislation recently introduced in the U.S. House would expand telehealth services for substance use disorder treatment. The Trump Administration waived regulatory restrictions for acce...
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A bipartisan bill introduced in Congress on Monday would expand telehealth access to substance abuse treatment. Reps. Ted Budd (R-NC), David McKinely P.E. (R-WV), David Cicilline (D-RI), and David...
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The Louisiana Department of Health’s Office of Behavioral Health will be launching an online platform on July 21 that will help Louisianans find high-quality, appropriate alcohol or drug addiction t...
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently gave Maine’s The Jackson Laboratory $212,500 for substance-use-disorder research. Funding is through HHS’ National Institute o...
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To increase effective drug management and disposal, a drug disposal company has entered added 10 new community outreach partners to its network. DisposeRX, a North Carolina-based company, has dona...
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