A hospital-based addiction consultation service can improve receipt of evidence-based treatment for people with opioid use disorder (OUD).

In-Hospital Addiction Consultations Put Opioid Users On Path To Recovery By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- People hospitalized for opioid use can ...

The budget House Republicans passed last week sets the stage for cuts to Medicaid, which paid for opioid addiction treatment for 2 million people in 2021—more than a third of everyone treated.

Republicans hope to save a lot of tax dollars by cutting Medicaid. Drug policy experts say as many as a million Americans in ...

This is an encouraging trend. But even with the significant reduction, we must still reckon with the fact that 90,000 Americans lost their lives to opioid addiction during that period. That’s ...

"[A]s this new report highlights, Medicaid is what enables one million people to get medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction, the gold standard of addiction care," Hassan said of the ...

The creation of this responsive fleet wouldn’t have been possible without SAMHSA expertise, says Jessica Blose, an addiction expert who serves as the Washington State Opioid Treatment Authority ...

Amy Koch Every community in Minnesota has felt the devastating impact of opioid addiction. The pandemic complicated our fight as treatment access diminished and isolation increased, but now we ...

Hospitalized opioid users were more likely to start medication treatment if they received addiction consultation services They were also more likely to follow up with a treatment program after ...