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The COVID-19 pandemic has been linked with increased rates of alcohol misuse, mental health concerns, anxiety, and depression, according to research recently published online in Scientific Reports.

The New Jersey Department of Labor has awarded CarePlus NJ with a 1-year, $525,000 grant to expand its Pathways to Recovery program that helps individuals impacted by the opioid epidemic re-enter the workforce.

COVID-19-related anxiety and stress have been linked to an increase in tobacco use and vaping, as well as the first year-over-year increase in cigarette sales observed in decades, according to a new white paper published by Pivot

During his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Joe Biden introduced plans to address the nation’s addiction crisis, invest in its behavioral healthcare infrastructure, and better enforce parity laws.

A DynamiCare Health prescription digital therapeutic that uses contingency management to treat tobacco use disorder in pregnant women has been granted breakthrough device designation by the US Food and Drug Administration.

With opioid-related diagnoses among pregnant women documented at delivery, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced recently that it has collaborated with clinicians, researchers, and policy makers to develop a standard...

A year after Measure 110—an Oregon ballot initiative that decriminalized drug possession and provided funding to expand access to treatment services—went into effect, early data show that the bill has resulted in 16,000 individuals accessing...

Outpatient mental health and substance use visits among physicians increased substantially during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a population-level cohort study of physicians in Ontario, Canada. Researchers published...

While the number of suicides by intentional drug overdose have decline overall in recent years, NIDA finds an increase in intentional overdose deaths among young people between the ages of 15 and 24, older people ages 75 to 84, and...