Addiction

Alex Azar - July 2019

Politics

In bid to improve care, Trump administration to relax privacy rules for patients with history of addiction

Methadone clinic

Health

For the first time, U.S. panel recommends screening adults for illicit drug use

By Brittany Flaherty

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narcan nasal spray (naloxone)

Health

For every 69 high-dose opioid prescriptions, U.S. pharmacies dispensed only one overdose-reversal drug

By Andrew Joseph

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Maura Healey

Health

Purdue Pharma seeks to minimize its role in opioid crisis as it urges dismissal of Massachusetts suit

By Andrew Joseph

Deaths of despair

First Opinion

Rural Americans need help with ‘deaths of despair.’ Repealing the ACA won’t do that

By Nickolas D. Zaller

Oxycodone pain pills

Health

Study: 2% of women have ‘persistent’ opioid use after childbirth

By Lauren Joseph

Overdose response

First Opinion

Opioid overdose should be treated like attempted suicide: with an emergency hold

By David A. Patterson Silver Wolf

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FDA; Drug Administration campus

Pharma

FDA, accused of being too lax in approval of opioids, outlines new criteria for future approvals

By Andrew Joseph

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Flat tire

First Opinion

Hospitals are a missing link in easing the opioid crisis

By Richard Bottner and Christopher Moriates

Cigarette butts

First Opinion

Quitting smoking is hard. Mindfulness hacks the habit loop, offering a new approach

By Jud Brewer

Ryan Hampton

First Opinion

Why I believe the Warren-Cummings CARE Act can stop people like me from becoming opioid overdose statistics

By Ryan Hampton

Prescription pad stock

First Opinion

Industry-funded attacks on the CDC’s opioid prescribing guideline are eroding public health

By Ben Goodwin, Judy Butler, and Adriane Fugh-Berman

Inmates Addiction Medication

First Opinion

Appeals court’s smart move paves the way for opioid addiction treatment in prisons and jails

By Kevin Doyle

White House evening

Politics

A new push aims to bring mental health and addiction into the 2020 campaign conversation

By Megan Thielking

Women's prison

First Opinion

Pregnant women with substance use disorders need treatment, not prison

By Marty Jessup

Dr. Stefan Kertesz

Health

The chronic-pain quandary: Amid a reckoning over opioids, a doctor crusades for caution in cutting back

By Andrew Joseph

Suboxone in hand

Politics

Nearly all doctors can freely prescribe opioids. Now a new movement aims to vastly deregulate an addiction treatment

Oxycodone

Health

Faced with an outcry over limits on opioids, authors of CDC guidelines acknowledge they’ve been misapplied

By Andrew Joseph and Ed Silverman

John Oliver

Health

From rural Kentucky to HBO: The story of the Sackler deposition hits pop culture big-time

By Andrew Joseph

Harm reduction

First Opinion

Sobriety is just one pathway to recovery. Harm reduction is another

By Susan E. Collins

TUFTS - Sackler

Special Report

‘We owe much to the Sackler family’: How gifts to a top medical school advanced the interests of Purdue Pharma

By Andrew Joseph

Drug Encampment In Kensington Area

First Opinion

Overdose prevention sites can help cities like Philadelphia save lives

By Thomas Farley

Packets of buprenorphine

First Opinion

Do business concerns keep doctors from treating opioid addiction?

By David A. Patterson Silver Wolf

Painkillers

Pharma

N.Y. attorney general targets Sackler family with allegations tied to Purdue Pharma

By Associated Press

Donald Stern

Health

Tufts taps former U.S. attorney to investigate ties to Sackler family, Purdue Pharma

By Andrew Joseph

Rep. Elijah Cummings

Politics

House Democrats request Purdue opioid documents, focusing on the role of the Sacklers

By Andrew Joseph

UnitedHealth

First Opinion

Landmark ruling sets precedent for parity coverage of mental health and addiction treatment

By Patrick J. Kennedy and Jim Ramstad

Suboxone

First Opinion

Deregulating buprenorphine prescribing for opioid use disorder will save lives

By Kevin Fiscella and Sarah E. Wakeman

Suicide Mental Health

First Opinion

Deaths of despair can be prevented with a comprehensive strategy

By Benjamin F. Miller and John Auerbach