Office of GovernorJohn Bel Edwards On July 1, Louisiana marked five years since expanding Medicaid coverage for the hard-working poor...

The Louisiana Department of Health has released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Managed Care Organizations (MCOs). This RFP places an...

Treatment Communities of America (TCA) and the World Federation of Therapeutic Communities (WFTC) will hold a training event, The...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the Affordable Care Act in California v. Texas, a lawsuit brought by 18 Republican-led...

This week, U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and U.S. Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) reintroduced their legislation to improve our emergency...

The Legislative Analysis and Public Policy Association (LAPPA), a recipient of the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s (ONDCP) Model...

This week, U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) announced their new bipartisan bill, the Excellence in Mental Health...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released a new edition of their Supplemental Research Bulletin...

As millions of Americans receive COVID-19 vaccines, data about the impacts of the pandemic is pouring in and it paints a challenging...

Recently announced was the reintroduction in the U.S. Senate of the bipartisan Life Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment (LifeBOAT)...

Drug overdose epidemic worsened during the COVID pandemic The nation’s COVID pandemic made the nation’s drug overdose epidemic worse....

A new study from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) found two clusters of brain cells that compete to promote...

The National Council for Behavioral Health recently announced it has changed its name to the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. The...

CMS is issuing guidance on how states can receive enhanced funding, provided through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, to increase...

The Food and Drug Administration recently announced the approval of a higher dose of naloxone nasal spray to treat opioid overdose. The...

A study recently published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence examined barriers encountered by patients seeking to fill buprenorphine...

U.S. Reps. Dave Joyce (R-OH) and Bill Johnson (R-OH) want to officially recognize America’s addiction professionals workforce of more...

This week, HHS and HRSA announced a new program covering costs of administering COVID-19 vaccines to patients enrolled in health plans...

President Joe Biden on Friday announced his intent to nominate Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, PhD, for the position of Assistant Secretary for...

The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released...