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Teenage pregnancy rates have declined across the country, but some parts of Texas have made much less progress on that. Abstinence-only sex ed policies may be one reason why.

If you’re like millions of other Americans, when a big event happens –a shooting, a disease outbreak, a contentious election –you scour the internet to…

It's a heartbreaking piece of arithmetic: In Massachusetts, the numbers of slots in inpatient psychiatric treatment centers just don't line up with the…

Every Friday, Christine Crawford has a counseling session at a clinic at New York City’s Mount Sinai Health System as she moves ahead with plans for…

For the first time ever, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking a pharmaceutical company to remove an opioid from the market due to the dangers…

Location, location, location. That mantra may apply even when it comes to how opioid addiction is treated.Specifically, patients with private insurance…

This week, Side Effects Public Media released a report detailing how the president of an Indiana nonprofit is also lobbying for a drug company, Alkermes.…

This was a big week for Side Effects ‒ after months of work, one reporter's investigation into drug lobbying efforts' influence on addiction policy went…

Suboxone, one of the three most popular treatments prescribed to people struggling with opioid addiction, has helped many people recover--but it isn't…

There are a lot of decisions that pregnant women addicted to opioids face.They have to decide to get clean, for one. And they have to decide how to do it.…