- Vermont is the state with the highest rates of teenage drug use.
- New Mexico is the state with the most significant drug problems.
- California granted $17 million to 44 community and tribal organizations aimed at preventing youth substance abuse.
- CHANCES, an addiction services program in Philadelphia, closed following financial hardship.
- New legislation in Oregon aims to create a task force on alcohol pricing and addiction services to better understand how much money the state spends on addiction treatment and prevention, and how much taxes from alcohol sales fund that spending.
- Mental health and substance use counselors make an average of $56,230 annually in the U.S.
- The National Emergency Services Information System released a report showing the national nonfatal opioid overdose rates, with Menominee County, Wis., having the highest rate of overdoses.
- Mental health platform ReKlame Health launched an in-home addiction medicine care program that seeks to address the increase in alcohol misuse following the pandemic.
- Laredo, Texas-based physician Oscar Lightner, MD, was convicted along with his office manager, who is also his stepson, for illegally prescribing more than 600,000 opioid pills in exchange for cash.
- Indianapolis-based Indiana University researchers were gifted $8.6 million by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to research heavy alcohol use and binge drinking.
- West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Hanley Center at Origins, an addiction treatment center, is opening a mental health intensive outpatient program.
- Biopharmaceutical company Omeros was awarded $6.69 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to develop its oral treatment for cocaine use disorder.
- Former California physician Thomas Keller was sentenced to 30 months in prison for illegally prescribing Schedule II and IV controlled substances leading to the overdose death of a 17-year-old patient.
- Bloomington, Calif.-based Cedar House Life Change Center secured a $3.6 million contract with Riverside County in California to run a facility in the area.
- Jeffrey Young, APRN, known locally as the “Rock Doc,” was convicted by a federal jury for illegally prescribing opioids out of his medical practice.
15 addiction treatment updates in 1 month
Here are 15 addiction treatment updates Becker’s has reported on since April 5:
