According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA; 2023), more than 1 in 9 of American adults (11.8 percent) believe they have ever had a problem with alcohol or other ...

More than 650,000 Americans experienced homelessness on any given night last year ‒ a 12% increase since 2022. Chronic homelessness is also worsening, with over 143,000 people homeless for at least a ...

The federal government’s recent repeal of its special licensing requirement for providers to prescribe buprenorphine for the treatment of opioid use disorder (the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of ...

Sometimes it becomes imperative to seek inpatient treatment for an addiction. It may have become clear that one’s current treatment isn’t enough and imposing a break from a cycle of addictive behavior ...

Kennesaw State University’s Wellstar School of Nursing has received a federal grant to teach graduate students how to help patients break increasingly deadly opioid addictions. Assistant professor of ...

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The Trump administration has reversed cuts to grants for mental health and addiction treatment programs that were valued at nearly $2 billion. Thousands of federal grants supporting the programs were ...