addiction

Morning Rounds Brittany Trang

Morning Rounds: Getting healthier in the checkout aisle and the alcohol aisle

Health Isabella Cueto

What’s in a drink? U.S. regulators consider new alcohol label, but health advocates want even more

Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang, Theresa Gaffney, Lev Facher, Isabella Cueto, Sarah Owermohle, and John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Trump’s real health care agenda isn’t in Project 2025 — it’s in his own words

Health Lev Facher

FDA approves Purdue Pharma’s controversial new overdose-reversal medication

Politics Isabella Cueto

STAT Plus: Lawmakers cast doubt on expert panel studying alcohol for 2025 dietary guidelines

Health Lev Facher

STAT Plus: Politics is holding back the best tool for treating meth addiction

Health Lev Facher

Biden administration should push for addiction medication in recovery houses, groups say

Health Lev Facher

Substance use stayed at high levels in 2023, while vaping increased and smoking fell

Health Isabella Cueto

Q&A: Trans adults face ‘shocking’ risk of cirrhosis, especially alcohol-driven

First Opinion Jonathan JK Stoltman and Mishka Terplan

NIDA should beware of funding companies that violate people’s privacy

First Opinion Sarah E. Wakeman

To overcome the overdose crisis, addiction treatment must be integrated into the health care system

First Opinion Sara Lorenz Taki and Lipi Roy

Addressing the dual epidemics of hepatitis C and opioid use

Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang and Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: What to know about Trump VP pick J.D. Vance’s health care views and investments

Health Isabella Cueto

Alcohol is driving a half-dozen types of cancer in the U.S., study finds

Health Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Elmo and his friends are helping little kids (and grown-ups) with their ‘big feelings’ amid a mental health crisis

First Opinion Nora D. Volkow and Tisha Wiley

Everyone deserves addiction treatment that works — including those in jail

Health Lev Facher

STAT Plus: Upending Purdue Pharma’s settlement does little to help today’s opioid crisis, advocates say

Politics Lev Facher

STAT Plus: Pressed on addiction, Trump and Biden talk border security but don’t mention treatment

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

Supreme Court rejects the controversial Purdue bankruptcy plan

First Opinion Safina Adatia

To get basic standard addiction treatment, Americans should move to Canada

Health Isabella Cueto and J. Emory Parker

By the numbers: America’s alcohol-related health problems are rising fast

Health Lev Facher

WHO warns global health toll of alcohol remains ‘unacceptably high’

Health Lev Facher

Substance use experts are sounding the alarm on another addiction: gambling

Health Lev Facher

STAT Plus: Ambitious federal study failed to curb opioid deaths, NIH announces

Letters to the editor Patrick Skerrett

Readers respond to mothers in treatment for opioid use disorder, pandemic models, and more

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Among pregnant people, active treatment for addiction shouldn’t trigger a call to child protective services

Health Lev Facher

Drug treatment that insists on abstinence? Federal agencies are just saying no

First Opinion Arthur Robin Williams and Judith Cole

Mothers in treatment for opioid use disorder shouldn’t also have to fight child protective services

Health Lev Facher

At Las Vegas conference, methadone clinics blast idea of doctors prescribing directly