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

Texas passed sweeping changes to cannabis policy, including expanding the medical marijuana program and banning hemp products ...

We have no medication-assisted treatment (like methadone for heroin) for marijuana addiction. Yes, therapy can certainly benefit the seriously mentally ill. But, for therapy to take, medication ...

Dr. Tanguay, why mandate treatment when we could just improve access to voluntary treatment? RT: We need both. We are the hub for the community in Calgary, but other cities in Alberta don't have that.

According to Virtue Recovery, Health Plan of Nevada justified its denials by “cherry picking” from the treatment criteria of the American Society of Addiction Medicine adopted by Nevada Medicaid.

In July 2024, Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary designee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., participated in a virtual event in which he briefly outlined his plan to address the country’s ...

In America, therapeutic communities for addiction treatment became popular in the 1960s and ’70s. Some, like Synanon , became notorious for cultlike, abusive environments.

A 2017 Canadian Medical Association report estimates 60,000 Canadians travel abroad for medical treatment annually, but there is no data on how many are British Columbians seeking addiction treatment.

One example is the Master Plan's largely underutilised recommendation to roll out opioid substitution therapy (OST). This is a treatment option in which a person who is dependent on opioids like ...

Marijuana addiction has risen among Veterans Affairs patients since 2005, with veterans who have psychiatric disorders most at risk, new research has found. A study published last Wednesday in the ...