Nearly all of the for-profit company's 1,900 patients are on Medicaid, government-funded health insurance for low-income ...

You’re probably all too familiar with Ozempic and other diabetes medications that are commonly used as weight-loss drugs.

DN: How important is community support in long-term recovery? Hellewell: Community support is absolutely crucial. In active ...

What do you think would happen, I asked my daughter, a nurse practitioner who works in addiction medicine, if Narcan, the drug that reverses opiate overdoses, were suddenly to disappear from pharmacy ...

One of the biggest barriers for people to reach out for help with battling substance use disorders is the stigma that comes ...

Opioid addiction can happen to anyone and is a significant public health issue. Taking proper precautions can reduce your ...

When a person has both a mental illness and a substance use disorder, it is called co-occurring disorders. These health ...

Kaiser Permanente faced sharp criticism from California legislators for its no-show at a key hearing on its mental health ...

While well-intentioned, Scott L. Bohn’s op-ed “Equipping first responders for the age of synthetic opioids” (April 28, TribLive) calling for expanded use of high dose and long-lasting opioid overdose ...

Kaiser Permanente and the National Union of Healthcare Workers reached a tentative agreement on a new contract Sunday night, ...