Overdose deaths in the United States have dropped about 40 percent from their post-covid peak, according to a Johns Hopkins report released October 20. Some people we talk to...

The federal government’s newest national survey has two headlines, and they pull in opposite directions. The measured share of Americans with a substance use disorder is lower than it...

Thanksgiving, office parties, football weekends, and family gatherings all put alcohol in front of us more than usual. A new German study suggests that simply seeing it matters. For...

For a long time, a drink or two a day was treated as the safe middle ground: not great, but not alarming. A new study funded by the federal...

Kratom is sold at gas stations, smoke shops, and corner stores, and plenty of people assume that means it’s harmless. Sheriffs just west of Bay County are telling the...

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...

Every year the White House sends Congress a budget request, and every year the numbers for addiction and mental health programs look alarming. Then Congress writes its own version....

Here’s the Argument on Each Side. Earlier this year, the federal agency that oversees addiction and mental health funding told its grantees they can no longer use federal dollars...

If you’ve started or continued opioid use disorder treatment through a phone or video visit anytime since 2020, you’ve been relying on a rule the federal government still hasn’t...

Mental Health Five days ago, the Department of Health and Human Services announced it had already awarded $247.9 million in grants to communities across the country for addiction treatment,...

Addiction Fight Most people don’t get a research institute named after their recovery. Darryl Rouson did. Not as a courtesy, either. He spent years pushing the legislation that eventually...

That Might Change. If someone in Bay County gets involuntarily committed under the Baker Act, or ordered into treatment under the Marchman Act, the paperwork behind that isn’t private....

Approach Could Help If someone is addicted to opioids, there are FDA-approved medications that measurably help. Same with alcohol. Methamphetamine and cocaine don’t have that option, which is exactly...

Pick up a bottle of wine or a six-pack, and the label will warn you about drinking while pregnant and about operating machinery. It won’t mention cancer. That’s not...

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...