Special Report: Vermont spends millions on addiction-fighting drug that is …
Shelley Sweet, a former treatment center employee in central Vermont, said it's not uncommon for women to try to become pregnant in order to bump themselves to the top of a waitlist for Medicaid-subsidized treatment. Often those women take half their … Read more on Brattleboro Reformer

Affordable Care Act expands coverage for addiction treatment
SO: In California, the coverage includes both inpatient and outpatient services – so inpatient detox at a residential facility is included. Then there's outpatient care such as day-treatment; intensive outpatient programs – those are programs that … Read more on 89.3 KPCC

Legal, Regulated Heroin Could Have Saved Philip Seymour Hoffman
According to the Center for Disease Control, “opioid analgesics, such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, and methadone, were involved in about 3 of every 4 pharmaceutical overdose deaths” and “38,329 people died from a drug overdose in the United States in … Read more on Daily Beast