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Several weeks before Indiana’s state health commissioner Jerome Adams was nominated to replace VivekMurthy as U.S. Surgeon General, Adams toured a detox…

Although the new(er) addiction treatments Vivitrol and Suboxone get more attention, methadone--which some regard as a relic from the '70s and '80s--still…

A little-discussed provision in the Senate health care bill is designed to boost the number of hospital beds for psychiatric care, providing a long-sought…

Tippecanoe County, Indiana received state approval for a syringe exchange in late 2016, after county health officials raised the alarm about fast-rising…

Giving people who have serious mental illness peer support has proved so helpful that some states are starting to pay these peer specialists to bridge the gap when there aren't enough professionals.

In need of more votes, Senate leaders have produced a new bill that offers billions more in opioid epidemic assistance but it keeps proposed cuts to Medicaid spending.

How education services would be effected has garnered little attention in the national debate as Republican lawmakers seek to repeal and replace the…

When health care costs so much, who decides who receives treatment? Earlier this summer, a huge insurer refused to reimburse emergency visits it deems…

$1.25 million.That’s the size of the bill that could have shuttered the only public hospital in rural Pemiscot County, Missouri in August 2013.$750,000…

In an effort to respond to patients’ desires for speed and convenience, health networks are thinking small. Microhospitals — which typically offer limited…