Addiction treatment
Editorial Roundup: Ohio

By The Associated Press May. 10, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
Akron Beacon Journal. May 9, 2021. Editorial: $20 million can’t reduce Akron’s gun violence without innovation, clear plan ...

Opioid use, fentanyl deaths in Maryland spike amid pandemic

By Callan Tansill-Suddath Of Capital News Service Apr. 27, 2021 05:05 PM EDT
Preliminary data from 2020 reveals a dramatic increase in deaths linked with opioids in Maryland, particularly fentanyl; health officials blame the pandemic. ...

FILE - This July 23, 2018 file photo shows packets of buprenorphine, a drug which controls heroin and opioid cravings, in Greenfield, Mass. The U.S. government is easing requirements that made it difficult for doctors to treat opioid addiction using the medication. New guidelines announced Tuesday, April 27, 2021, mean doctors will no longer need eight hours of training to prescribe buprenorphine. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
US lifts barriers to prescribing addiction treatment drug

By Carla K. Johnson Apr. 27, 2021 09:34 AM EDT

Shaheen supports funding increase to fight opioid epidemic

Mar. 26, 2021 01:39 PM EDT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire has helped introduce a bill that would increase funding to fight the opioid epidemic, which has...

W.Va. receives $12.4M for substance abuse, mental health

Mar. 16, 2021 04:12 AM EDT
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia received two federal grants totaling $12.4 million for substance abuse prevention and treatment and for mental health...

Grants address racial disparities in opioid services

Feb. 13, 2021 12:45 PM EST
BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts attorney general's office has awarded $1.5 million in grants to 16 organizations across the state to address racial disparities...

Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania

By The Associated Press Jan. 27, 2021 02:26 PM EST
Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from Pennsylvania’s newspapers: State must meet duty on recovery homes ...

This Jan. 1, 2021 photo shows a collection of empty beer cans, consumed during the pandemic, at a home in North Andover, Mass. This year's Dry January came as many people had seen an uptick in their alcohol intake. Addiction treatment experts note that a month of forced sobriety might not have a lasting impact and could lead to binge drinking in February. But others believe the annual show of sobriety can’t hurt. (Mary Schwalm via AP)
Dry January is moist for some at the rocky start of 2021

By Leanne Italie Jan. 22, 2021 09:31 AM EST

Master appointed to oversee addiction treatment group

Jan. 09, 2021 11:16 AM EST
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island judge has appointed a special master to oversee the assets and operations of a financially struggling addiction...

Jacqueline Temple Rudder, pauses as she speaks about how a medical marijuana treatment would have helped her late father-in-law Ed Rudder deal with pancreatic cancer, during an Initiative 65 rally of patients and parents in Ridgeland, Miss., Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Initiative 65 would amend the Mississippi Constitution to allow the prescription by a doctor of up to 5 ounces (142 grams) of marijuana per month for people who suffer from more than 20 medical conditions. The state lawmakers are offering a more restrictive measure as an alternative. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Amid virus, Mississippi must set medical marijuana program

By Leah Willingham Nov. 07, 2020 08:54 AM EST

Peter Matlon, a resident of Washington, holds up a protest sign for commuters to see on Pennsylvania Avenue near the Trump International Hotel in Washington, Wednesday morning, Oct. 7, 2020. The Vietnam War veteran normally likes canvass door-to-door during elections but was forced change his tactics because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Trump hails experimental treatment for his virus recovery

By Aamer Madhani, Jill Colvin And Matthew Perrone Oct. 07, 2020 12:24 AM EDT

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, third from left, waits with others as President Donald Trump prepares to leave the White House to go to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after he tested positive for COVID-19, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump, stricken by COVID-19, flown to military hospital

By Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin And Jonathan Lemire Oct. 02, 2020 03:31 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 1, 2020 file photo, a closed sign is displayed outside a Salvation Army store and donation center in Glenview, Ill. Across the country, drug and alcohol recovery programs claiming to help the poor and the desperate are instead conscripting them into forms of indentured servitude, requiring them to work without pay or for pennies on the dollar, in exchange for their stay. For the first time, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has determined how widespread these programs have become. In 1990, in response to a complaint from a former participant, the Labor Department launched an investigation into the nation's largest chain of work-based rehabs, The Salvation Army, which operates about 100 programs across the country. At The Salvation Army's rehabs, participants were required to work full time processing donations for the organization's thrift stores, receiving a stipend of only $5 to $20 a week. The department found The Salvation Army had violated labor laws and ordered the nonprofit to pay its participants minimum wage. The Salvation Army refused to comply. It sued, then enlisted members of Congress to defend the venerable charity. Within a month, the department backed off.(AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
Review finds many who work during rehab aren't being paid

By Shoshana Walter Of Reveal From The Center For Investigative Reporting Jul. 07, 2020 10:59 AM EDT

Rosa Alba Santoyo speaks on the phone and is embraced by a woman giving her condolences the day after she lost three of her adult children in an attack on the drug rehabilitation center where they were being treated, at her home in Irapuato, Mexico, Thursday, July 2, 2020. Gunmen burst into the drug rehabilitation center and opened fire Wednesday, killing 24 people and wounding seven, authorities said. After the loss of her three children, only two of Santoyo's seven children remain living. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Death toll rises to 26 in Mexican drug rehab center attack

By Eduardo Verdugo Jul. 02, 2020 04:12 PM EDT

Police pass near the drug rehabilitation center that was attacked the previous day in Irapuato, Mexico, Thursday, July 2, 2020. Gunmen burst into the center and opened fire Wednesday, killing 24 people and wounding seven, authorities said. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Death toll rises to 26 in Mexican drug rehab center attack

By Eduardo Verdugo Jul. 02, 2020 03:48 PM EDT

Addilyn Davis finishes prekindergarten at Rockford Elementary by riding in the school's graduation parade Saturday May 15, 2020 in Maryville, Tenn. (Scott Keller/The Daily Times via AP)
Drug overdoses in Memphis spike during virus outbreak

By Adrian Sainz May. 19, 2020 04:57 PM EDT

Biotech company Gilead says its experimental coronavirus drug met its treatment goal in a major study

Apr. 29, 2020 10:07 AM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Biotech company Gilead says its experimental coronavirus drug met its treatment goal in a major study. ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, left, with Texas Department of State Health Services Commissioner John Hellerstedt, second from right, and Texas Division of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd, right, gives an update on the COVID-19 outbreak at the Texas Department of Public Safety warehouse facility in Austin, Texas, Monday, April 6, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Nursing home patients trying unproven virus drug in Texas

By Paul J. Weber Apr. 06, 2020 05:59 PM EDT