Alcohol & Substance Abuse

There has been no sign of progress in resolving the state’s budget crisis. Special sessions typically cost $20,000 to $30,000 each day.

House Bill 159 would cut the number of days’ supply of opioid pills in a single prescription.

An EU directive goes into force today, with new rules regulating the tobacco industry. The U.K. is going further: Cigarettes must now be sold in plain green packaging with graphic health warnings.

The opioid epidemic has killed tens of thousands over the past two years and driven major reforms in state and local law enforcement and public health policies for people with addiction. But another deadly but popular drug, methamphetamine, also has been surging in many parts of the country. And federal officials say that, based on…

Addiction experts are up in arms after Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price referred to medication-assisted treatment as “substituting one opioid for another.”

The move, which was announced in a memo, reverses an Obama-era recommendation that asked federal prosecutors not to hit low-level drug offenders with charges that carry mandatory minimum sentences.