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SoonerCare Cuts Red Tape for Brixadi Opioid Addiction Treatment
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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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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Teen Kratom Use Rose 51% as FDA Warns the Leaf Is an Opioid
Kratom use among American teenagers rose by roughly half in a single year, according to federal survey data, and the increase is sharpening a policy fight over whether the leaf itself drives opioid addiction. The Food and Drug Administration has concluded the plant contains opioid compounds and warns Americans against using it. Regulators have nonetheless …
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Grocer Sues Broker Over $40 Million Opioid Coverage Dispute
Opioid addiction has produced one of the largest waves of civil litigation in American history, and the settlements that followed were supposed to pay for treatment, naloxone distribution and prevention. A lawsuit filed in June offers an unusually clear look at the machinery underneath that money, and at how much of it can get tied …
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North Carolina Opioid Overdoses Fall 27% Despite Local Spike
Opioid overdoses in North Carolina fell 27% through the first half of 2026, according to state Department of Health and Human Services data reported by WRAL on August 14. Between January and June, emergency departments recorded 2,031 opioid overdoses statewide, more than 700 fewer than the same period a year earlier. In the same month, …
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Every Nitazene Death in One Ohio County Also Involved Fentanyl
Across 2023 and 2024, a medical examiner in one Ohio county reviewed 45 deaths involving nitazenes. In every single one, fentanyl was present too. That pattern is the clearest available picture of how these synthetic opioids are actually reaching people, which is hidden inside other drugs rather than sold under their own name. Nitazenes are …
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