The last time singer, songwriter and activist Melissa Etheridge heard her son’s voice, he said, “I’m sick. Mom, it’s fentanyl.” According to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, there were ...

The experiences of one doctor in Louisiana reveal the tensions around trying to get people to engage in addiction treatment, ...

While we have a long way to go in providing culturally sensitive, patient-centered treatment to the LGBTQ+ community, more health clinics are shifting their focus to trauma-informed care when treating ...

The MHRA has strengthened addiction warnings for Z-drugs, benzodiazepines, and gabapentinoids after a review found risks of ...

The United States has set another record for overdose deaths with 93,331. That's not just a number; each digit represents a person, an American lost. It represents mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, ...

When my colleagues and I first heard of the novel coronavirus, not much, if anything, changed. We knew that the virus was causing severe illness and death in an older population because that’s what ...

Although much of the nation’s attention has been devoted to the coronavirus pandemic, the opioid epidemic is also ravaging our nation. The opioid crisis continues to harm and kill Americans daily.

SHE DID A GREAT JOB RAISING HER SON. WELL, AT 645 THERE’S A CLEAR CONNECTION BETWEEN ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION AND SOMEONE’S DEPENDANCE TO THEIR PHONE. LOCAL DOCTORS SAY THEY’RE TREATING MORE YOUNG ...

Roughly a week ago, I stood with various officials and stakeholders for a pre-opening dedication of Cumberland County’s Capital Recovery Center at 72 N. Pearl St., Bridgeton. It will open in early ...

Does the approach to treating opioid addiction need a radical overhaul? After her son's death, Melissa Etheridge turned her grief into advocacy by creating a foundation to support new research into ...

According to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, there were an estimated 70,029 overdose deaths involving opioids in 2020. On May 13, 2020, her son Beckett Cypheridge became one of the ...