MISSOULA, Mont. — The Department of Health and Human Services through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration is awarding $57.6 million to seven grant programs to assist Americans ...

A man drinking at a bar. (Photo by Darlene Alderson.) As many people can probably guess, most of us aren’t born with an addiction, so how do people become addicted to something, anyway? The Substance ...

Thanks to a $2.6 million, five-year grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Caring Together program will be better able to treat substance use disorders ...

25% of Americans (70 million people) admitted they use illicit drugs, according to the most recent National Survey on Drug Use. 48.7 million people nationwide struggle with substance abuse according ...

Several COVID-era flexibilities relied upon by opioid treatment programs and their hundreds of thousands of patients will become permanent later this year, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health ...

You may have heard the term “co-occurring disorder” or “dual diagnosis” or “comorbidity”—but what do these constructs mean, exactly? The term co-occurring disorder refers to the presence of two or ...

During a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing earlier this year in June, Congressman Marc Veasey (D-TX) called out HHS Secretary RFK Jr. for slashing funding for the Substance Abuse and Mental ...

A protestor marks International Overdose Awareness Day in Manhattan last August. Overdose deaths were down in recent months, and Democrats are questioning the wisdom of changing policies that are show ...

Addiction is an umbrella term that reflects qualities of substance use disorder, characterized by an inability to stop using a substance despite harmful consequences. However, addiction is not a ...