On October 13, the Justice Department announced that CVS will pay $315 million to resolve a federal case over how its pharmacies filled prescriptions for opioids and other controlled...

Most conversations about cannabis and addiction focus on teenagers and young adults. A new study looked at the other end of the age range, and the results are worth...

When someone buys a pill or powder sold as fentanyl, they are often buying a mix. A new federal study shows how much else is in there, and how...

Two sets of numbers came out in the past few weeks, and they point in opposite directions. Overdose deaths in the U.S. are dropping. Diagnoses of opioid addiction are...

Only about one in four American adults who need treatment for opioid addiction get the medication that works best. Among those who do start, many stop within months. For...

That Origin Still Matters for Recovery Sober October began as a cancer fundraiser. The campaign was built to raise money for people living with cancer, and the recovery angle...

Than Fentanyl Florida’s drug deaths fell sharply in the first half of 2025, and fentanyl fell the furthest. The same state report breaks results out by region, and the...

A nurse struggling with addiction is rarely the person anyone pictures when they hear the word. They are often the one everyone else on the floor relies on. That’s...

Substance Until recently, you could walk into a gas station almost anywhere in Florida and buy something that looked like candy, worked on the same receptors as an opioid,...

There’s a state-run addiction program with an actual office on 15th Street in Panama City, and most people in Bay County have never heard of it. It’s called the...

Except in One Group Florida adults, taken as a whole, drink less riskily than the rest of the country. Roughly 32 percent of Floridians report risky drinking compared to...

Roughly one in six adults in Florida binge drinks at least once a month. That’s the actual number, somewhere between 16 and 17 percent depending on which year’s survey...

Overdose deaths fell nationally again last year, roughly 14 percent, the third year in a row that number has dropped. That’s real and it’s good. It’s also not the...

Here’s What Actually Predicts It. Somewhere between 40 and 60 percent of people treated for a substance use disorder relapse within the first year. That number gets repeated constantly,...

For the last few years, Ozempic and Wegovy have mostly been a weight loss story. Doctors are now looking at something else these drugs might do, something that has...

If you’ve ever called your insurance company about treatment and gotten a runaround, you already know this fight. A confusing denial letter. A provider list full of people who...

Here’s What the Research Says You’re probably reading this because someone you have heard inpatient treatment is the answer, and you want to know if that’s actually true or...

It has been a busy few days at Florida Springs Wellness and Recovery Center. Bay County marked International Overdose Awareness Day, and local officials showed up here at Florida...

Good news doesn’t come around often when discussing overdose numbers, so when it does, it’s worth actually looking at instead of just repeating the headline. Bay County’s overdose numbers...

Ask most people what the Good Samaritan law protects them from, and they’ll say something about drugs. That’s if they are familiar with it at all. Fentanyl, pills, and...

If you give or sell someone drugs in Florida right now, that could be enough to charge you with murder. It doesn’t matter if you’re a stranger who sold...

Meeting People At Their Worst Moment You don’t always get a second chance handed to you in a hospital bed. Most people who survive an overdose and get discharged...

You might have heard someone say that handing out Narcan gives people an excuse to keep using drugs. Maybe you have seen people who are just a little bit...

Many people go into withdrawal expecting it to feel like it did in the past. You may have detoxed off of pain pills or heroin before and remember a...

Family members often struggle to distinguish between actions that help a loved one recover and actions that improperly shield them from the natural consequences of addiction. Enabling behaviors usually...

Addiction affects both the brain and daily behavior, we talk about those things all the time here. Treatment that relies on a single intervention often fails to address the...

First-time attendance at a recovery support group can be scary. This is a very serious topic, as there are absolutely many people who have never attended a support group,...

Completion of residential treatment marks the first step in a much longer process. We talk about this all the time here, because it’s so important. When you leave a...

(Or Managing New Stress Once You Get a Job) In some respects, returning to a job after drug and alcohol treatment is a luxury many don’t have. Drug and...

Returning to familiar settings or spending time with old acquaintances can create immediate physical and mental stress during early recovery. In support groups they have called this pattern “people,...