The United Medication Assisted Treatment Targeted Engagement Response, or U-MATTER, is part of a collaboration between the county, TPD, Codac Health Recovery and Wellness and other local agencies ...

After more than two years of saving up its opioid settlement funds, Haywood County finally has a plan to spend them. The county's public health director, Sarah Banks, presented county leaders with a ...

The Lehigh County Board of Commissioners approved a contract for health care services for the Department of Corrections' inmate and patient population.

Prescription opioid abuse and its downstream effects have reached epidemic proportions in the United States. On May 26, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) moved a step closer to providing help to ...

“Jailing is changing,” MCSO Inmate Transitions Coordinator Julie Mamo added. “It’s really about how we can help you be successful, versus I’m locking you up forever because you’re a bad person. It’s ...

States are receiving millions in opioid settlement funds that are intended to be used for treatment and prevention efforts, ...

In U.S. jurisdictions where medical aid in dying is legal, patient choice and control is central to the process. If the ...

Federal Medicaid cuts threaten the very lives of those living with serious mental illness, disabilities, and substance use disorders as well as the quality of life and livelihoods of those managing th ...

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office will equip all jail facilities with an X-ray scanner in an attempt to prevent inmates from bringing in drugs.

Amy Kern knocked on the door of a Georgia mental hospital in the middle of the night. No one answered. Then she took I-95 ...

Medical workers at state prisons could soon be employed by a private contractor in a move the Iowa Department of Corrections ...

TPD’s opioid deflection program is a six-month pilot in two patrol divisions that will give opioid addicts the ability to be quickly placed into treatment with no risk of jail.