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(Celia Talbot Tobin/KFF Health News) In the past few years, state and local governments across the U.S. have begun spending billions in opioid ... people from developing substance use disorders ...

He credits a new program that the counseling center started with opioid settlement ... programs that aim to stop people from developing substance use disorders. States committed, on average ...

Here’s a look at the opioid crisis. Experts say the United States is in the throes of an opioid epidemic. An estimated 8.9 million Americans aged 12 and older misused opioids in 2023. Opioids are ...

Dozens of interviews, thousands of pages of documents, an array of public records requests and outreach to all 50 states resulted in a first ... such as denying people medications for opioid use ...

Black men born 1951-1970 always have had the greatest risk of dying of overdoses, even in their 20s, 30s and 40s. It's true ...

James Mannion knew what he needed. For nine months, while incarcerated in a county jail in Portland, Maine, he pleaded for a ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, New Mexico sits in the top ten states in overdose mortality rate ...

Behavioral Intervention Decreases How Much Pain Affects Daily Activities in People with Dialysis-Dependent Kidney Failure, ...

OTTAWA, ON, Dec. 18, 2024 /CNW/ - Since its launch in January 2020, the Governments of Canada and the United States have been taking action through the Joint Action Plan on Opioids (OAP ...

Among people with dialysis-dependent kidney failure, a form of psychological therapy called pain coping skills training ...