Medicaid waiver programs may allow you to get long-term medical care at home or in a community facility. Medicare usually limits the amount of these services you can receive. If you or a loved one has ...

A central challenge in the opioid crisis in the US has been the underuse of lifesaving treatment and harm reduction programs. Conventional explanations focus on limited access to care when services ...

As the opioid epidemic continues to cause suffering for millions of Americans, the United States government is responding in many different ways. In 2016, lawmakers passed the Comprehensive Addiction ...

The Social Security Administration requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convene an ad hoc committee to produce a report on health outcomes for school-aged ...

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