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On Tuesday at the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit, US Reps. Hal Rogers and David Trone discussed the effectiveness of prescription drug monitoring programs and the increasing urgency resulting from an influx of fentanyl and counterfeit pills.

With a renewed sense of purpose and direction—and a newly christened name—the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit convened in person for the first time since 2019 on Monday in Atlanta.

In a session at the 2022 Rx and Illicit Drug Summit, R Corey Waller, MD, MS, managing director, HMA Institute on Addiction, discussed how to improve the treatment ecosystem by addressing addiction workforce gaps.

Creating a hybrid approach to recovery that incorporates medication-assisted and abstinence-based forms of treatment provides patients with more options and improves retention, say Robert L. DuPont, MD, and Cara Poland, MD, MEd.

Despite usage rates among teens remaining low, the drug overdose death rate for young people between the ages of 14 and 18 doubled between 2019 and 2020, and then increased another 20% in the first half of 2021, according to new data from the...

The rate of positive drug test results among American workers in 2021 reached its highest level since 2001, according to data recently published by Quest Diagnostics.

A majority of adolescents with severe substance use disorder (SUD) symptoms were found to have at least 2 SUD symptoms, suggesting that this population does not transition out of symptomatic substance use later in life, according to a study...

The number of pills containing illicit fentanyl seized by law enforcement increased nearly 50-fold from the first quarter of 2018 to the last quarter of 2021, according to data released on Thursday by the National Institute on Drug Abuse...