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Months in prison didn’t rid Daryl of his addiction to opioids.“Before I left the parking lot of the prison, I was shooting up getting high,” he says.Daryl…

Starting December 1, patients on Indiana’s Healthy Indiana Plan will have an easier time getting certain opioid addiction medications. The four insurers…

Every other week Cassidy Linnemeier carpools with a friend to their OB-GYN in Indianapolis from Seymour Indiana, where they live. The drive is about an…

Suboxone, the drug used to treat addiction, is fueling a new habit. David Greene talks to Andy Beshear, Kentucky's attorney general, who is cracking down on the new "pill mills" that dispense it.

Addiction experts are up in arms following remarks from Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, in which he referred to medication-assisted…

In a big hotel conference room in Times Square, six doctors huddle around a greasy piece of pork. They watch as an addiction medicine specialist, Michael…

Twice a day, Angela and Nate Turner of Greenwood, Indiana, take tiny strips that look like colored scotch tape, and put them under their tongues.“They…

A long-acting implant has gained approval from an FDA advisory committee. It could soon become the latest on a very short list of medical options.

Medicines that help users wean themselves from opioid drugs can be prescribed in a doctor's office or clinic. But some clients question whether the clinics always have their best interests at heart.