In a surprising and long-overdue shift, the United States has seen a meaningful reduction in overdose deaths. According to the CDC, there was a 27 percent national decline in fatal overdoses between 2023 and 2024—the ...
U.S. Department of Labor | September 18, 2023 US Department of Labor awards $992K to Washington state to support employment, training services to respond to opioid crisis WASHINGTON – Amid a sharp national increase in ...
News Release U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 202-690-6343media@hhs.govwww.hhs.gov/newsTwitter @HHSGov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, September 1, 2023 Statement by HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra Recognizing National Recovery Month National Recovery Month represents an opportunity ...
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was signed into law on March 27, 2020, and is the third substantial piece of legislation dealing with SARS-CoV-2 (which causes covid-19) in the United States. ...
TSRP & LFS Responds to New York Times Article On November 3, 2019, the New York Times published an article about Preliminary Alcohol Screening (PAS) devices. The article was titled, “These Machines Can Put You ...
Identifiable Risk Factors After multiple instances of mass violence in the past year (Dallas, Orlando, San Bernardino, Colorado Springs, and Charleston, to name but a few), the ability to identify and treat individuals who are ...
It’s been a very long road, but the addiction and mental health fields have cleared another hurdle with the recent release of federal rules that define how mental health and addiction parity must be implemented. ...
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