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California Is Spending $21 Million to Meet People Where They Are. Its Own Numbers Show Who's Hardest to Reach.

28,109 people got opioid treatment last year. 6,713 got stimulant treatment. The new grants don't close that gap by themselves.

California awarded $21M+ in SOR IV funds to 112 community organizations on Oct 30. Its own data shows opioid treatment outnumbering stimulant treatment about four to one.

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02Treatment & RecoveryOct 22

The Hemp THC Ban Is Fifty Days Out. Nobody Wrote a Plan for the People Who Wake Up Sick.

A federal hemp THC ban takes effect December 11. Cannabis withdrawal peaks around days 2 to 6. Here is what providers and people who use daily should plan for.

03Treatment & RecoveryOct 17

Patients in Franklin County Used to Drive an Hour for Methadone. A Settlement Grant Just Ended That.

Franklin County, New York got its first methadone clinic in August, paid for by opioid-settlement money. What a rural commute was doing to recovery, and what providers can copy.

04Treatment & RecoveryOct 9

Opioid Deaths Are Falling. Meth Didn't Get the Memo, and There Is Still No Pill for It

Massachusetts opioid deaths dropped below 1,000, but peer-support staff say meth is what fills their rooms now. A 2026 JAMA Psychiatry trial of mirtazapine shows how small the medication toolkit still is.

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California Is Spending $21 Million to Meet People Where They Are. Its Own Numbers Show Who's Hardest to Reach.

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The Hemp THC Ban Is Fifty Days Out. Nobody Wrote a Plan for the People Who Wake Up Sick.

Patients in Franklin County Used to Drive an Hour for Methadone. A Settlement Grant Just Ended That.

Opioid Deaths Are Falling. Meth Didn't Get the Memo, and There Is Still No Pill for It

Half of Young People Start Opioid Treatment. One in 32 Is Still on Medication Six Months Later.

Half of Young People With Opioid Addiction Make It Through the Door. One in 32 Is Still on Medication Six Months Later.

Only 1 in 32 Young People With Opioid Addiction Is Still on Medication Six Months Later. The Treatment Didn't Fail Them.

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Minnesota Sues the Founder of a Peer Recovery Nonprofit It Calls a Sham. Hundreds of Peers Lost Their Jobs First.

The Smoke Shop Sample Was Free. The Withdrawal Wasn't.

California Has Three Months to Prove Its Meth Treatment Program Deserves to Survive

The Only Treatment That Works for Cocaine Just Got a 10x Raise. Almost Nobody Can Cash It In.

There's No Pill for Meth. Here's What Actually Moves the Needle.

Meth and Cocaine Have One Proven Treatment. Most Medicaid Plans Still Won't Pay For It.

The Ban Landed. Tennessee Shows What Happens Next.

The Treatment System Never Learned to Ask About Poppers

A New Psilocybin Trial Won't Save Anyone This Year — Contingency Management Already Could

Ketamine Got Respectable. It Didn't Get Safe.

Methadone's Rules Got Looser. Too Many Clinics Haven't Let Go.

The Thing That Gets People Into Treatment Was Never the Syringe. It Was the Person Handing It Over.

There's Still No Pill for Cocaine. The Treatment That Works Pays You Instead — and Most States Won't Cover It.

Rural ERs Still Aren't Starting Addiction Medication. Six Years of Data Just Proved It.

Washington Built the Playbook That Cut Overdose Deaths. It Just Told States to Stop Using It.

Two Years of Take-Home Methadone Proved the Critics Wrong. Clinics Should Act Like It.

Two Psychedelic Drugs Got Rejected. Both Are Back at the FDA's Door — And the VA Just Widened the Stakes

Your Xanax Dose Is Not a Detail. Finnish Researchers Just Showed It's the Whole Risk Curve.

Cravings Aren't Constant. A Study of 400,000 People Trying to Quit Drinking Shows When They Actually Hit

The Meth Sentencing Law Is Still Fighting a Drug That Doesn't Exist Anymore

One-Third of Methadone Clinics Still Choose Punishment Over Treatment

Meth and Cocaine Still Have No Approved Medication — and the One Treatment That Works Is Starving for Funding

A Hospital Sent Jean Descamps to a Bus Stop Instead of Treatment. He Died Hours Later.

The Hospital Didn't Believe Him. Twelve Hours Later, He Was Dead.

Treatment Centers Are Seeing a Kratom Wave the DEA's New Rule Won't Touch

Congress Deleted Doctors' Paperwork Excuse for Treating Addiction. Most Kept the Stigma Anyway.

A New Methadone Bill Calls Itself Reform. It Would Still Decide Access by ZIP Code.

A Nicotine Pouch Looks Like Nothing in Someone's Lip. That's the Whole Design Problem.

He Was Seven Minutes Late to His Methadone Dose. The Clinic's Rulebook Nearly Killed Him.

Kentucky's Largest Treatment Company Called It Recovery. Its Own Workers Called It Warehousing.

Arizona's New AI Chatbot Will Find You a Treatment Provider. It Won't Tell You If You'll Get In.

He Took the Same Pill for 20 Years. Coming Off It Nearly Killed Him Faster Than Staying On Ever Would.

Arizona's Meth Deaths Spike Every July. The State Still Hasn't Applied for the Treatment That Works.

Arizona Wrapped an AI Chatbot Around Its Treatment Locator. It Didn't Fix What's Broken Underneath.

There's Still No Pill for Meth Addiction. There's a Gift Card, and It's Working.

Kentucky Turned $865,000 in Opioid Settlement Money Into a Lifeline for Five Counties. Arizona Has $1.2 Billion and Nothing Like It.

Heroin Basically Disappeared From the Drug Supply. Recovery Culture Hasn't Caught Up.

Arizona Firefighters Are Eating Psilocybin Chocolates for PTSD. The FDA Just Decided to Take It Seriously.

The First Benzodiazepine Prescription Doesn't Look Like a Drug Problem. That's Exactly How It Becomes One.

The World Has More Cocaine Than Ever, and Still Nothing to Prescribe For It

Florida Paramedics Are Handing Out Buprenorphine at the Scene. It's Working.

The Seven-in-a-Hundred Problem: Alcohol Kills as Many Americans as Fentanyl, and 93 Percent Never Get Treatment

For the First Time in Decades, Stimulants Kill More Americans Than Opioids. The Treatment System Has No Answer.

Your Pharmacist Can Now Prescribe Buprenorphine. That's a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds.

One in Six. The Only Promising Meth Treatment Works — But Barely.

Prescribed Into a Corner: The Benzodiazepine Dependence Millions Don't Know They Have

Gift Cards, Urinalysis, and the Only Proven Tool for Meth: Why Contingency Management Is Finally Getting Its Due

The First New Quit-Smoking Drug in Two Decades Is Ten Days from an FDA Decision

The High That Was Already in the Cupboard

The Only Drug Combo That's Worked Against Meth Is Still Waiting on the FDA

The Door That Opens When You're About to Lose Everything

In Four States, Doctors Can Get Paid to Treat Meth Addiction. In Arizona, There Is No Treatment.

California's Contingency Management Program Just Hit 10,000 Patients. Forty-Five States Don't Have One.