Keywords Archives: addiction treatment

House committee investigating patient brokers

A House committee investigating patient brokering in the addiction treatment industry announced Tuesday it has sent letters to eight call aggregators, businesses who connect people seeking treatment to sober living homes. The bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee is seeking information about how their employees are trained, and what they disclose to callers about any affiliations […]
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Phialdelphia moving closer to opening supervised injection site

The city of Philadelphia has become the latest U.S. municipality moving closer to establishing a supervised injection site where intravenous drug users can inject under the supervision of medical personnel who can revive them in case they overdose. Some of the city’s top leaders, including the mayor, health commissioner and a recently-elected district attorney, are […]
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Researchers develop new app to treat eating disorders

Eating disorders, – including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating, among others — are among the most difficult addictions to treat. According to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), about 20 million women and 10 million men will develop eating disorders at some point in their lives. At the University of Kansas, a research […]
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Wisconsin going ahead with plan to drug test welfare recipients

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is going ahead with his plan to make Wisconsin the first state to drug test able-bodied adults applying for food stamps. Other states’ attempts to do so have been blocked by the federal government or found to be unconstitutional. The Wisconsin legislature approved the plan more than two years ago, but […]
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Study: only one in four addicted teens, young adults getting treatment

As opioid use disorder (OUD) has continued to increase across the United States, only one in four young adults and teenagers with OUD have received treatment, according to a new Boston Medical Center (BMC) study published online in JAMA Pediatrics. One of the benefits of buprenorphine and naltrexone, two relatively new medications that can help […]
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Keeping score: will politicians ‘walk the walk?’

In recent months, members of the U.S. Congress have been “talking the talk” in regard to the country’s opiate addiction epidemic. Now, with the 2018 midterm elections approaching, will they “walk the walk” and commit funding and other resources to do something about the crisis? Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) announced recently he is […]
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Democrats introduce $45 billion opioid crisis funding bill

On October 25, the day before President Trump’s declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency, a group of Democratic senators and one independent introduced the Combating the Opioid Epidemic Act, which would allocate $45 billion in additional resources to state governments, through existing programs.  The legislation would: Authorize and appropriate $4,474,800,000 for substance abuse […]
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President’s opiate commission issues recommendations

President Trump’s commission on combating the opioid epidemic  has called on the federal government to establish drug courts in every federal judicial district, lower barriers to treatment, tighten prescribing standards and adopt a block grant system to fund state and local addiction treatment and prevention programs. Those are among the 56 measures proposed by the […]
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Montana putting treatment in reach of more addicts

One of the factors often cited as helping fuel the recent opiate epidemic is lack of access to addiction treatment services in rural areas of the United States. In Montana, one of the country’s lowest population-density states, lawmakers and other officials have been taking steps to make it easier for addicts to access treatment in […]
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Investigations shake confidence in treatment centers

Addiction treatment centers are supposed to be places of hope and recovery, sanctuaries where people feel cared for and supported so they can enter treatment with confidence. But a recent string of investigations found some treatment providers are putting their own interests ahead of their patients’ needs, sparking patient and family concerns about their quality […]
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Calculating the economic cost of drug-related crime

“Drugs and crime go hand in hand.” It’s a message that’s been burned into our minds since before Nixon declared his War on Drugs. But it’s also an overly simple message that belies the complex nature of the problem and has more often provided an excuse for authorities to target minority populations than it has […]
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Can zebrafish solve the opioid crisis?

It sounds like a headline straight out of The Onion, but researchers actually believe the small tropical fish may hold the key to new treatments for opioid addiction. A new study published by scientists at the University of Utah looked at how zebrafish respond to opioids as a way to better understand how addiction affects […]
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