opioid addiction

Before Jenna Tatro died — yet another loss to the cruelty of opioid use disorder — she had promised her mom and dad that, if she could just get clean, she’d devote her life to improving access to treatment and recovery. So Greg and Dawn Tatro made Jenna’s Promise theirs, starting a nonprofit under that name.

Here’s one more lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic: It appears safe to relax restrictions on methadone, the oldest and most stigmatized treatment drug for opioid addiction

Doctors say they’re facing increasing threats of violence for refusing to prescribe opioids or trying to wean patients off the addictive painkillers.

Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of the painkiller Oxycontin, pleaded guilty to charges for its role in the opioid crisis. 

After being sober for 16 years, Dax Shepard opened up about his recent relapse during the Sept. 25 episode of Armchair Expert. “Today, I have seven days,” he said

New efforts at Massachusetts hospitals are helping babies born to opioid-addicted mothers thrive — despite suffering from withdrawal.