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The War on Recovery Lev Facher

STAT Plus: Q&A: Mark Parrino says it’s time to ‘completely re-examine’ methadone treatment for opioid addiction

The War on Recovery Lev Facher

STAT Plus: The methadone clinic monopoly: Opioid treatment chains backed by private equity are fighting calls for reform

The War on Recovery Lev Facher

Rigid rules at methadone clinics are jeopardizing patients’ path to recovery from opioid addiction

The War on Recovery Lev Facher

STAT Plus: New methadone rules are about to take effect. Here are 6 ways treatment could shift

The Readout LOUD Damian Garde, Allison DeAngelis, and Adam Feuerstein

Listen: VC turmoil, GLP-1 competition, & the war on recovery

The War on Recovery Lev Facher

How the U.S. is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic

The War on Recovery Alex Hogan

Watch: Why fentanyl withdrawal is agony and how medication can prevent it

The War on Recovery Lev Facher

STAT Plus: Q&A: Nora Volkow on how to get ‘at least 50% less people dying’ from opioid overdose

Health Simar Bajaj

Opioid cravings were reduced by anti-obesity drug in small study

Health Associated Press

More people die after smoking drugs than injecting them, study finds

First Opinion Regina Benjamin and Jerome Adams

Former U.S. surgeons general: The U.S. should ban menthol cigarettes

Health Lev Facher

Higher naloxone doses have no impact on overdose survival, study shows

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Years into an addiction crisis, a med school lecture still minimized opioid risks

Health Lev Facher

Methadone treatment gets first major update in over 20 years

The Readout Damian Garde

STAT Plus: Pfizer’s reset year starts with a little profit

Politics Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: Zyn scrutiny from Sen. Chuck Schumer prompts an unlikely culture war

First Opinion Maggie Hassan

STAT Plus: Sen. Maggie Hassan on what Congress must do next to fight the opioid crisis

First Opinion Joëlla W. Adams

The misguided reason why providers aren’t prescribing more buprenorphine for opioid use disorder

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: FDA is blasted by advocates for pursuing a deal with data provider that has ties to opioid makers

Health Lev Facher

How opioid overdoses in public restrooms led an electrician to invent ‘safe bathrooms’

First Opinion Torie Bosch

Buprenorphine, autism diagnoses, and long Covid: the most-read First Opinion essays of 2023

Health Lev Facher

Fights over methadone, harm reduction, and more: 3 addiction stories to watch in 2024

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We wish we’d written that: STAT staffers share their favorite stories of 2023

First Opinion Cara Poland

The U.S. must raise federal alcohol taxes to address the alarming rise in alcohol use

First Opinion Shannon Smith-Bernardin

Sobering centers offer a safe place to recover from intoxication. Every community should have one

Morning Rounds Annalisa Merelli

STAT Plus: Morning Rounds: Can you take GLP-1 drugs during pregnancy?

Health Lev Facher

Methadone clinics spar with addiction doctors on bill that would widen access

Exclusive Lev Facher and Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Sweeping bill to fight opioid addiction will be considered by Senate health committee

Politics Associated Press

STAT Plus: Supreme Court wrestles with OxyContin maker’s bankruptcy deal