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A roadblock to life-saving addiction treatment is gone. Now what?
by Martha Bebinger March 6, 2023Enlarge this image Registered nurse Jamie Simmons speaks with a patient during an appointment at the Greater New Bedford Community Health Center…
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HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Dec. 28, 2018 (HealthDay News) — In the past two decades, opioid overdose death rates among U.S. kids and…
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Many ‘Recovery Houses’ Won’t Let Residents Use Medicine To Quit Opioids
by Nina Feldman September 12, 2018Enlarge this image Barb Williamson runs several sobriety houses in Pennsylvania, commercially run homes where residents support each other in their recovery…
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Another Big Health Insurer Loosens Rules For Covering Addiction Treatment
by NPR February 15, 2017Enlarge this image A doctor at a Boston Medical Center clinic counsels a patient who has become addicted to opioid painkillers, and…