Opioid addicts covered by Medicare and Medicaid are less likely to receive the mental health and substance use treatment that ...

Colorado’s best-served regions had enough providers to offer 81% of the primary care visits (in the San Luis Valley) and 72% of the mental health and addiction care (in Denver) that their ...

Your addiction specialist can also help your family and friends understand how to support you in your recovery. Emergency Room Team If you’re admitted to an emergency room, you may work with ...

“It’s the exact opposite of how we should be helping people,” said Lister. “We should aspire to provide health care services ...

Rhode Island Acting U.S. Attorney Sara Bloom announced that a clinical social worker was sentenced on Wednesday to three years of supervised release for her role in a scheme to defraud health care ...

During her Ph.D., psychologist Lotte Gosens and colleagues working in intellectual disability care and addiction care developed a treatment that does work. "The participants used less alcohol and ...

But a training program in addiction medicine offered by OHSU is providing help by sharing resources, best practices and collaborative problem solving on complex cases. While most of the people who ...

When we talk about cutting Medicaid, we're talking about dismantling this critical support system,” writes Ryan Hampton.

Fully integrating addiction treatment into the health care system is a massive undertaking that will require time, resources, and a coordinated effort by health systems and local, state, and ...

Addiction care providers urgently need the state's help to retain workers, get more people into treatment and expand prevention services. Credit: Getty Images. Recently, a leader in the addiction ...

The Trump administration must soon make a decision that will affect millions of Americans' ability to access and afford mental health and addiction care.. The administration is facing a May 12 ...

According to federal prosecutors, 64-year-old Mi Ok Song Bruining was nicknamed by her co-workers at Recovery Connections Centers of America as the "Five Minute Queen" for substituting a one or ...