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8.6% of Overdose Survivors Die Within a Year of ER Visit
Surviving an opioid overdose may take you from death’s door but it isn’t the same as getting out of the danger zone. People who reach an ER after an overdose face an 8.6% risk of dying within the following year. Even worse, the opioid addiction med that can improve those odds reaches almost none of …
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Walmart Pays $50 Million to Settle Opioid Dispensing Case
Another chapter of opioid litigation closed on August 28. But for folks living with opioid addiction the practical question concerns potential changes at the pharmacy counter. The Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration announced a $50 million settlement with Walmart to resolve allegations that its pharmacies violated the Controlled Substances Act by illegally filling …
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Minnesota Teen’s Kratom Death Spurs Push for Regulation
Families across Minnesota’s Iron Range are confronting a substance that sits in plain sight on gas station counters. However, it’s not regulated like an opioid in The North Star State, even though doctors say it acts like one. Parker Martindale, a teenage boy from Cloquet, died from what his family says was a lethal amount …
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Military Pain Symposium Targets Opioid Addiction Prevention
Pain care and opioid addiction have been treated as separate problems for most of the opioid crisis by different clinicians in different appointments. A gathering of pain and addiction specialists among the military branches in August 2026 put the case for treating them together. The National Capital Region Pain Initiative hosted the 2026 Combined Pain …
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Brain Stimulation Lowers Opioid Cue Response in Small Trial
Cravings during and after rehab triggered by a familiar place, person or object are one of the hardest parts of early recovery from opioid addiction. A recent trial shows that low electric stimulation measurably changed how the brain responded to those cues. But it didn’t change what participants felt. The study tested theta-frequency transcranial alternating …
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Moses Lake, Washington Event Offers Free Naloxone Training
Opioid overdose prevention gets easier when the medication that reverses an overdose is free and someone shows you how to use it. That is what Grant County, Washington is offering on Saturday, August 29, at its fourth annual Community Resource Fair and International Overdose Awareness Day event. The event runs from 8 a.m. to 1 …
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FDA Warns 14 Online Sellers of Unapproved Ketamine Products
Federal regulators are moving against a market that has grown up alongside legitimate psychedelic medicine, and the risk falls on people buying injectable drugs from websites. Anyone worried about ketamine addiction or about someone ordering ketamine online should know what the FDA found and how to get help for ketamine addiction. On July 7, 2026, …
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Opioid Addiction Medication Now Reaches Californians by Phone
The medication that treats opioid addiction works. Most people who need it never get near it. CA Bridge, the program behind California’s free statewide treatment service, reports that roughly 90 percent of people living with opioid use disorder lack access to medication for addiction treatment. That number is the story. Buprenorphine and methadone have decades …
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New SAMHSA Toolkit Launches Ahead of National Recovery Month
SAMHSA published its 2026 National Recovery Month toolkit on August 21, ahead of the September 1 start, and built the campaign around a single idea: recovery happens together. For anyone weighing whether to walk into their first NA meetings this month, that framing is more useful than it sounds. The toolkit is a free public …
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Denver Opioid Clinic Offers Walk In Buprenorphine Care
The gap between deciding to stop and being able to start is where a lot of people lose their footing. Opioid addiction treatment in Denver now has one fewer step in the middle of it. The nonprofit WellPower has opened a walk-in medication assisted treatment clinic where a person can arrive without an appointment and …
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