Addiction

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

advertisement

A photo of Scott Gottlieb

Politics

FDA will broaden how it evaluates new addiction treatment drugs

advertisement

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

advertisement

First Opinion

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

By Jeffrey Samet, Michael Botticelli, and Monica Bharel

advertisement

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?

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

Angels in America

First Opinion

‘Angels in America’ again: It’s time to humanize addiction

By Sandeep Kapoor

FDA Opioid Tech

Politics

Facebook, Instagram among tech firms called to Washington by FDA to address illicit opioid sales

Opioid Lawyers

First Opinion

Opioid recovery teams benefit from the addition of lawyers

By Gregory M. Singleton and Jay Chaudhary

Don't Miss

“Runnin’”: a new documentary from STAT

Opioid Withdrawal

Health

In a first, FDA approves drug meant to mitigate symptoms of opioid withdrawal

Opioids Field Testing - Fentanyl

Health

Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids contributed to more overdose deaths in 2016 than prescription painkillers

Dr. Kurt Rasmussen

Politics

Former Lilly researcher will lead government agency studying addiction treatments

Food addiction

In the Lab

They were commercial flops. But can weight loss drugs be used to treat addiction?

By Meghana Keshavan

Fighter cockpit

First Opinion

Using Air Force ‘boldface’ to ease the opioid crisis

By Jim Huizenga