addiction

First Opinion By Dick Durbin

With the tobacco settlement, the U.S. missed its moment to fortify public health. We can’t make that mistake with the opioid settlement

First Opinion By Nora D. Volkow

Punishing drug use heightens the stigma of addiction

Health By Andrew Joseph

States could get billions from opioid lawsuits. They have to decide how to spend it

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A journalist on what the Vietnam War taught us about addiction

Politics By Lev Facher

Biden to nominate West Virginia’s Rahul Gupta as drug czar 

First Opinion By William Cooke and Gregg Gonsalves

Closing an Indiana county’s syringe services program would be a public health disaster

Health By Lev Facher

Years ago, a syringe exchange helped end a devastating HIV outbreak. Now it might be forced to close

First Opinion By Regina LaBelle, Tom Coderre and Rochelle Walensky

Unlocking federal funding for fentanyl test strips will save lives

First Opinion By David Eddie and John Kelly

People recover from addiction. They also go on to do good things

Politics By Lev Facher

Do public health officials need to be political activists? A fight over an HIV crisis renews the question

First Opinion By Thomas McLellan and Jacob Crothers

Needed: an Operation Warp Speed for the opioid epidemic

Politics By Lev Facher

Biden administration will allow nearly all providers to prescribe buprenorphine

Health By Andrew Joseph

A new book traces the roots of the opioid crisis through the secretive Sackler family

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Two addiction specialists debunk the myth of ‘excited delirium’ used in police encounters

First Opinion By Marvin D. Seppala

Money from opioid lawsuits is urgently needed now

First Opinion By Jeff Turiczek

Addiction and behavioral health care workers should have access to Covid-19 testing and vaccines

Health By Usha Lee McFarling

As the pandemic ushered in isolation and financial hardship, overdose deaths reached new heights

Health By Lev Facher

Trump administration will let nearly all doctors prescribe addiction medicine buprenorphine

First Opinion By Eric McIntire

Peer recovery programs are an integral part of addiction treatment, recovery

First Opinion By Sean Fogler

As a physician and a patient, I’ve seen the damage caused by the stigma of addiction. It must end

First Opinion By Richard Bottner, Christopher Moriates and Matthew Stefanko

Stigma is killing people with substance use disorders. Health care providers need to rid themselves of it

Health By Alice Proujansky

Pregnancy poses challenges for people in recovery from substance use disorder. Covid-19 is taxing their support system

Health Tech By Erin Brodwin

Nearly a year since opening its doors, here’s how Verily’s addiction medicine campus is taking shape

Politics By Amy Sokolow

Opioid overdoses have skyrocketed amid the coronavirus, but states are nevertheless slashing addiction treatment program budgets 

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

A pill to fight alcoholism causes an uproar in France over a regulator’s view of a clinical trial