Addiction

Jerry Brown

Health

California governor vetoes bill that would have allowed safe injection sites

By Andrew Joseph

Teen Use Of Electronic Cigarettes

First Opinion

Pod mods and vaping are creating a new generation of youths addicted to nicotine

By Richard Stumacher

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Greg Walden and Frank Pallone

Politics

AMA urges Congress not to loosen restrictions on privacy for patients with addiction history

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Clarksburg, West Virginia

First Opinion

Why there’s an overdose epidemic — in two graphs

By Hawre Jalal and Donald S. Burke

Jerome Adams with Trump and Melania

Health

Expanding addiction treatment, embracing the bully pulpit: Jerome Adams on his first year as surgeon general

By Andrew Joseph

Homeless health clinic

Health

A different kind of house call: Teams bring addiction care to patients, wherever they are

Business

Richard Sackler, member of family behind OxyContin, was granted patent for addiction treatment

By Andrew Joseph

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medication-assisted therapy

First Opinion

The Senate can change the course of the opioid crisis. Here are 50 ways it can do that

By Devin Oller

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Addiction recovery puzzle

First Opinion

It’s time to measure addiction recovery rates, not just addiction rates

By Robert D. Ashford, Olivia Pennelle, and Brent Canode

Health history form

First Opinion

Congress should listen to addiction patients — not corporate interests — about confidentiality

By H. Westley Clark

Hey, Charlie App

Health

Can a phone app’s warnings to avoid risky friends and places prevent opioid addiction relapses?

By Orly Nadell Farber

A photo of Scott Gottlieb

Politics

FDA will broaden how it evaluates new addiction treatment drugs

Opioid Privacy Laws

First Opinion

Treatment privacy laws protect me and 43 million other Americans living with addiction or in recovery

By Robert D. Ashford

First Opinion

What Philip Roth’s ‘The Anatomy Lesson’ can teach us about pain and addiction

By Ken Gordon

Medical Schools Addiction

First Opinion

Privacy laws are hurting the care of patients with addiction

By Melissa Stein

West Virginia Poverty

First Opinion

Facing deaths of despair from the depths of despair in West Virginia

By Clay Marsh

First Opinion

It’s time for methadone to be prescribed as part of primary care

By Jeffrey Samet, Michael Botticelli, and Monica Bharel

First Opinion

Hey, doctors: Why aren’t you stepping up to treat people with opioid addiction?

By Patrick Skerrett

First Opinion

Doctors and medication-assisted therapy for opioid addiction: a survey

By Patrick Skerrett

Prisons Opioids

First Opinion

Jails and prisons: the unmanned front in the battle against the opioid epidemic

By Brian Barnett

Jeff Sessions Opioids

Health

Justice Department announces crackdown on fraudulent opioid prescriptions

Opioid Sewer

Health

Scientists can track the spread of opioids in sewers. But do cities want to know what lies below?

By Justin Chen

Facebook Opioid Policy

Health

Facebook to redirect users searching for opioids to federal crisis help line

Drug Control Chaos

Politics

Empty desks, squabbles, inexperienced staff: Exactly who is coordinating White House drug policy?

Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, Greg Walden

Politics

Major opioids legislation is taking shape. Can it make a dent in a national epidemic?

Politics

NIH spells out $500 million plan to improve addiction treatment and pain management

Truth Opioid Epidemic

Health

Crashing cars into walls, breaking hands with hammers: How the White House is warning against opioids

Opioid Lobbying

Politics

As opioids legislation gains steam, efforts to address crisis collide with moneyed interests

opioid overdose memorial

First Opinion

Reviving an old book to tell a new story about OxyContin, Purdue, and the Sackler family

By Barry Meier