Addiction Treatment

Preventable drug overdose deaths are one of leading causes of death in the United States, with the number of deaths increasing by 58 percent between 2019 and 2021. 

Bicycle Health, a telemedicine treatment provider for opioid use disorder, partnered with Albertsons pharmacies, expanding prescription access in 17 states and 700 pharmacies.

UM Center for Translational Medicine, part of the Missoula-based University of Montana, is helping create vaccines to prevent fentanyl and heroin drug overdoses, which are approaching human trials, according to an Aug. 29 report from NBC Montana.

Compassion Behavioral Health has opened a mental health and addiction treatment center in Hollywood, Fla. 

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services allocated a total of $3 million across eight organizations in Kentucky to fight the substance abuse "epidemic" in rural communities, according to an Aug. 23 report from Spectrum News 1.

Hundreds of Native Americans have been scammed by fake rehabilitation centers in Phoenix, according to an Aug. 22 report from ABC News.

The University of Vermont Medical Center, based in Burlington, has launched an integrated addiction recovery program to address the record-high numbers of drug overdoses Vermont's largest community has been facing in 2023, according to an Aug. 17 report from WCAX…

The opening of Pathway to Recovery, an addiction treatment center in Taunton, Mass., was forced to be pushed back after a truck crashed into its waiting room right before opening day, according to an Aug. 17 report from Taunton Daily…

Southern Highlands Mental Health in Princeton, W.V., is one of five grant recipients in the state to support programs focused on opioid addiction and specifically newborns facing opioid withdrawal, The Bluefield Daily Telegraph reported Aug. 15.

It costs over $2,150 per day to stay at the most expensive rehabilitation center in the U.S.