SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — The Medical Board of California wants to create a confidential program for substance-abusing physicians that critics say will eliminate oversight of doctors who have drug problems.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The opioid crisis has been a quiet, deadly presence in America for a quarter-century ...

SIMI VALLEY, Calif.—Penny Lamb and Jeffery Lichtenberg were 1,500 miles from their home in Oklahoma with no money and no prospects when they were kicked out of their drug rehab program. None of it had ...

Updates to the addiction treatment planning process for adults in the Tampa Bay area seeking mental health and drug use treatments have been revealed by Tampa Bay Recovery Center. The organization ...

It could have been any graduation — nine people in caps and gowns assembled in a line, “Pomp and Circumstance” playing over the loudspeaker. But this ceremony was different. The men and women, who ...

Evansville, Ind. — Lavender Timmons popped the trunk of her weather-beaten 2007 Ford Focus parked near the city’s homeless shelter. Regulars gathered around, including one drug user who in the past ...

WhiteSands Alcohol & Drug Rehab has published a new resource on its website examining a patient-reported recovery experience through structured outpatient care. The article documents a patient’s ...