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Treatment & Recovery

MAT, detox, IOP, residential, peer support, aftercare, outcomes.

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

A $16.2 million settlement closes the books on Addiction Recovery Care. The peer support specialists who blew the whistle were doing the job clients needed all along.

Addiction Recovery Care, once Kentucky's largest treatment provider, agreed to pay $16.2 million over Medicaid fraud. The whistleblowers were peer support specialists who'd also been clients. Here's what the paper trail says happened in the room.

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02Treatment & RecoveryJul 27

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

AHCCCS's new Gemini-powered chatbot has reached 20,000 Arizonans searching for opioid treatment in two weeks. It's a real improvement — and it still can't tell you if there's a bed, if they take your insurance, or if you'll be the one who falls off the list.

03Treatment & RecoveryJul 23

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

A pharmacist's 20 years on prescribed lorazepam, and what the research says about why benzodiazepine dependence is so often mismanaged by the very system built to treat it.

04Treatment & RecoveryJul 21

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

No FDA-approved medication treats meth or cocaine use disorder. Contingency management does the job instead — and five states now fund it through Medicaid. Arizona, mid-crisis every July, hasn't applied.

05Treatment & Recovery

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

Jul 168 min

06Treatment & Recovery

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

Jul 116 min

07Treatment & Recovery

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

Jul 119 min

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

More in Treatment & Recovery

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.

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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.

Five States Are Now Paying People to Stay Sober. It's Working.

Five States Can Now Pay People to Stay Sober. Here’s Why That Number Is Still Too Small.

Contingency Management Is Coming to Medicaid — and It Could Change Everything for Methamphetamine Recovery

Ketamine's Regulatory Reckoning: Clinic Oversight, DEA Enforcement, and the Line Between Medicine and Misuse

SAMHSA's New Advisory Tells Doctors: Cannabis Use Disorder Is Real, and You Need to Screen for It

The Medication Nobody's Taking: AUD Has Three FDA-Approved Treatments. Fewer Than 3% of People With the Disorder Receive Any of Them.

Stimulants 2026: Why Cocaine and Meth Deaths Keep Rising While Opioid Deaths Fall — and What Treatment Looks Like Without a Medication

Opioid Treatment in 2026: Telehealth Won, But a New Tension Is Growing

Nicotine-Tobacco in 2026: The Substance Class with the Best Tailwinds for Recovery — and the Worst Whiplash Decade

Dissociatives in 2026: Texas Is About to Reshape Ketamine Care — and Other States Are Watching

Contingency Management Is the Only Treatment for Stimulants That Actually Works. Only Five States Cover It.

Spotlight: Cannabis Use Disorder Treatment in 2026 — What the Evidence Actually Says

After the Overdose: The 30 Days That Decide Survival

Substance Spotlight: Dissociatives — the ketamine clinic boom is meeting its first wave of regulatory pressure

How 211 Fills the Gaps SAMHSA's Directory Can't

MAT in 2026: What Medication-Assisted Treatment Is (and What It Isn't)

How to Find Addiction Treatment in America: The 2026 Guide

MAT in 2026: What It Is, What It Isn't