addiction and treatment

By MIKE STOBBE - AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. life expectancy rose last year — by more than a year — but still isn't close to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.The 2022 rise…

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — In its life-and-death battle against the drug epidemic, Kentucky has made gains in “breaking down the stigma” to reach out for…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON - AP Medical Writer Only 1 in 4 residential treatment centers for teens offers a recommended medicine for opioid addiction, according to a study that exposes an important…

By LEA SKENE - Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Anthony Kelly trudged through southwest Baltimore, each labored footstep a reminder of the roofing accident that left him with chronic pain and…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A U.S. magistrate judge on Friday ordered three men detained on drug trafficking charges accusing them of supplying illicit fentanyl linked to a fatal overdose in Oregon, prosecutors said.A…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON - Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — At Cleveland's Urban Kutz Barbershop, customers can flip through magazines as they wait, or help themselves…

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)Monica Swahn, Georgia State University(THE CONVERSATION) Suicide rates in the U.S. have increased…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON - Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — At Cleveland's Urban Kutz Barbershop, customers can flip through magazines as they wait, or help themselves…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON - Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — At Cleveland's Urban Kutz Barbershop, customers can flip through magazines as they wait, or help themselves…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The company that makes the opioid addiction treatment drug Suboxone has agreed to pay $102.5 million to 41 states and the District of Columbia to settle claims that the company engaged in anticompetitive practices, it…