Addiction Treatment

Around four in 10 addiction medicine fellowships are unfilled in 2023, according to a National Resident Matching Program report published Nov. 29. 

A new Addiction Recovery Care psychiatric facility has opened in Russell, Ky.

Hays, Kan.-based High Plains Mental Health Center has expanded its treatment program for substance use disorders.

Seventeen percent of people aged 12 or older in the United States had a substance use disorder in the past year, according to recent data from the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

Birmingham, Ala.-based addiction treatment and recovery services Bradford Health Services has acquired Southaven, Miss.-based Vertava Health.

From new treatments to new facilities, here are six updates related to addiction that Becker's has covered since Oct. 24:

Arkansas Children's in Little Rock is opening a first-of-its-kind center that will focus on the "impacts of the opioid crisis on the fetus, newborn and developing children."

AltaPointe's Behavioral Health Crisis Center in Mobile, Ala., has begun offering the use of ketamine to help transition a patient from fentanyl to addiction-treatment medicine buprenorphine.

Two senators have introduced bipartisan legislation to increase the addiction care workforce through a student loan debt relief program.

The Biden administration unveiled a list of resources to help businesses and state leaders increase employment opportunities for Americans struggling with substance use disorder or who are in recovery.